Test Bank for Identities and Inequalities Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality 3rd Edition by David Newman

Test Bank for Identities and Inequalities Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality 3rd Edition by David Newman

Authors: Newman
Edition: 3rd Edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Copyright: 2017

Chapter 03

Portraying Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Language and the Media

 True / False Questions

1. Small talk does not reflect deeper implications regarding group identities. 
FALSE

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2. Symbols bear a necessary connection to the nature of whatever they symbolize. 
FALSE

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3. The importance of language in creating and reinforcing perceptions of difference often lies more in what’s not said than what is. 
TRUE

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4. A symbol can be a physical object or a word. 
TRUE

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5. Slurs are arbitrary and meaningless, primarily reflecting the ill-manners of those who use them. 
FALSE

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6. Slurs have static meanings that do not change over time or social context. 
FALSE

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7. The slur “queer” has successfully been inverted by those who were targeted by it. 
TRUE

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8. Shifts in the usage of the language as well as in reference terms and connotations often parallel changes in the social stature of particular groups. 
TRUE

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9. The slur “nigger” has been successfully inverted across all generations and social contexts. 
FALSE

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10. Political correctness always reflects a shallow and meaningless attempt to sanitize language. 
FALSE

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 Multiple Choice Questions

11. The effort to replace such terms as “mankind,” “freshmen,” or “chairman” with “humankind,” “first-year student,” and “chairperson,” respectively, to refer to people of all sexes reflects: 
A. the sanitizing of language.
B. the social construction of reality.
C. the avoidance of exclusive language.
D. media-reinforced femininity.

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12. According to the text, some researchers attribute the fact that men tend to interrupt, are nonresponsive, and control topics of conversation to: 
A. the mainstream culture of femininity.
B. the natural dominance of men.
C. the natural submissiveness of women.
D. power imbalances between men and women.

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