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Queens University HLTH 101 Week 5: 1)As explained in the video, When the Bough Breaks, African American women have more low birth­weight babies than white American and African­born immigrant women because Select one: a

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HLTH 101

Week 5:

1)As explained in the video, When the Bough Breaks, African American women have more low birth­weight babies than white American and African­born immigrant women because

Select one:

a.            they experience more racism during their pregnancy

b.            they have unhealthy eating habits and low rates of physical activity c. they experience more racism over the course of their lifetimes

d. they have less health care coverage and poorer prenatal care

 

2.            A policy of colour­blindness:

Select one:

a.            is the best way to improve social justice

b.            is appropriate for a country like Canada that has addressed racism through laws and legal mechanisms

c.             is recommended by Toronto writer and activist Desmond Cole as a way to ensure that the police practice of “carding” is not racist

d.            ignores the real impacts of racism on people whose skin is not categorized as white and helps maintain the status quo

e.            all of the above except (d)

 

3.            When politicians or other public figures state publicly that institutions should be “colour blind” and Aboriginal people should not receive “special treatment,” such as affirmative action employment polices, which type of racism is this?

Select one:

a. relational b. symbolic

c.             embodied

d.            epistemic

e.            none of the above

 

4.            According to Allan G. Johnson, what is the “one thing” that sociology of­ fers to our understanding of social life?

Select one:

a.            we are always participating in something larger than ourselves, and if we want to un­ derstand social life and what happens to people in it, we have to understand what it is

 

that we're participating in and how we participate in it.

b.            members of privileged groups ought to feel guilty about their privilege

c.             society is just a collection of individuals

d.            racism is both “about us” and “not about us”

e.            all of the above

 

5.            When major public institutions such as Queen’s University and Kingston General Hospital have proportionately fewer visible minority employees than the general population, what type of racism should we suspect?

Select one:

a.            symbolic

b.            colour blindness

c.             embodied d. institutional

e. all of the above