Test Bank Docx Race and Ethnicity Factors Ch3

Chapter 3: The Intersectionality of Race and Ethnicity with Other Factors

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Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 Question 1

1) Intersectionality only explains the oppression that African American women experience.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 Question 2

2) There are no oppositions to affirmative action.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 Question 3

3) A meritocracy is a system of rewards allocated on many areas of merit.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 Question 4

4) People can choose their social class.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 Question 5

5) Homosexuality is now normative in the United States and is completely accepted.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 3 Question 6

6) Social workers need to be approach individuals of all races and ethnicities as complex and multilayered persons with different intersecting identities.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 7

7) The social implications of intersectionality are

a. never changing

b. always changing

c. sometimes changing

d. no social implications

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 8

8) Double jeopardy is

a. taking two risks

b. having two disadvantages in certain societies such as ethnicity and gender

c. having two individual advantages such as ethnicity and gender

d. taking four risks

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 9

9) The intersection of gender, race, and class can be described by which of the following?

a. The matrix effect

b. The matrix of domination

c. The domination of power

d. The power effect

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Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 10

10) The social class lines in the United States can be described as everything but

a. fluid

b. hidden

c. flexible

d. favorable

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 11

11) The process of gay liberation has emphasized

a. lesbian culture

b. bisexual culture

c. gay White male culture

d. heterosexual culture

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 12

12) What is intersectionality and why is it important to social workers? What is the matrix of domination?

Feedback:Intersectionality captures the multidimensionality and complexity of the human cultural experience and the place where multiple identities come together or intersect. Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) initially coined the term “intersectionality” (p. 141) to help explain the oppression that African American women experience.

Matrix of Domination is the intersection of race, gender, and social class (Collins, 1998). Because the social implications of intersectionality are constantly changing, it is important for social workers to be aware of it and address it accordingly.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 13

13) How do gender and sexual orientation are part of oppressive systems and how can social workers address these issues?

Feedback:Gender-gender inequality: women are the sociologic minority in the United States as well as in many other countries. Women who are heads of the household are more likely to live in poverty and are responsible for childcare even when they have a partner and are working full time. Women are on the lower rungs of social and institutional hierarchy and are in positions where they face oppression. The wage gap between women and men keeps women down and they get less lucrative jobs due to gender discrimination.

Sexual Orientation. Society views heterosexuality as superior as and more natural than homosexuality or bisexuality. Heterosexism is a form of discrimination that reinforces systems that place non-heterosexuals in marginalized social and political positions. Members of LBGTQ+ community face legal disadvantages for example in areas such as adoption, unfair treatment in old age, housing discrimination, and discrimination in health care. Oppression based on sexual orientation can intersect in complex ways with other identities. Not fitting a stereotype of a white gay man can present a challenge to a social worker. The social worker must recognize the different ways in which the client expresses his or her sexual identity.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 14

14) What is a key factor in society’s treatment of people with physical disabilities and how has society historically treated the community?

Feedback:There are several stigmas attached to the physically and mentally differently abled community. Different countries refers to the community by different names but often emphasizing what members do not have more than by what they have. It is important for social workers to investigate their own stereotypes and prejudice and how those attitudes negatively affect the client and their relatives. A key factor in society’s treatment of people with disabilities is the persistence of social labeling, where the disability becomes their defining or “master status.”

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 15

15) What is the meaning of the statement, “people do not choose their social class?”

Feedback:Members of lower socioeconomic status (SES) communities have opportunities afforded or denied to them within the existing capitalist system and its controlling profit motive. Political elites, the mass media, and the education system frequently promote the idea that the US is a meritocracy, where the system allocates rewards based on individual merit alone. However, the uneven playing field of social class gives crucial advantages to those from privileged backgrounds.