Practice Quiz Chapter 05

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. Critical geography is ________.

a) the study of patterns and processes of the earth's humans or social environments correct incorrect

b) a collection of ideas and practices concerned with challenging inequality correct incorrect

c) a way of looking at the world as a social product correct incorrect

d) the setting or context for social interaction correct incorrect

e) the study of patterns and processes of the earth's natural environments correct incorrect

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. "The description and interpretation of visual images, including landscape, in order to uncover their symbolic meanings; the identity of a region as expressed through symbols" is the conceptualization of ________.

a) symbolic interactionism correct incorrect

b) critical geography correct incorrect

c) authority correct incorrect

d) iconography correct incorrect

e) ideology correct incorrect

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. "The ability to dominate others by means of violence, force, manipulation, or authority" is the definition of ________.

a) hegemony correct incorrect

b) power correct incorrect

c) representation correct incorrect

d) society correct incorrect

e) racism correct incorrect

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. Race is ________.

a) the similarity or difference of social status, income, and culture. correct incorrect

b) a group of organisms correct incorrect

c) a subspecies; a physically distinguishable population within a species correct incorrect

d) a collection of ideas and practices concerned with challenging inequalities correct incorrect

e) a particular form of prejudice that attributes characteristics of superiority or inferiority correct incorrect

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. "A socially constructed system of affiliation, or identity, with a group of people arising from a common ancestry, culture, or both" is the definition of ________.

a) species correct incorrect

b) ethnicity correct incorrect

c) race correct incorrect

d) genocide correct incorrect

e) power correct incorrect

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. Assimilation of an ethnic group can be described as ________.

a) the process by which an ethnic individual or group is absorbed into society while still retaining aspects of a distinct identity correct incorrect

b) the endorsement of the right of ethnic groups to remain distinct correct incorrect

c) the movement of ethnic groups into ghettos correct incorrect

d) the process by which an ethnic group is absorbed into a larger society and loses its own identity correct incorrect

e) an intense favouring of the rights of native-born inhabitants over those who are foreign born correct incorrect

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. Measurements of well-being include ________.

a) income, wealth, and employment correct incorrect

b) the existence of patriarchy correct incorrect

c) education correct incorrect

d) both A and C correct incorrect

e) all of the above correct incorrect

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. Tourism is composed of ________.

a) the creation of the identities of both tourists and host communities as different correct incorrect

b) the annual vacation which developed out of worker–employer relations of the Industrial Revolution correct incorrect

c) place construction, by tourists and host communities correct incorrect

d) locales with a combination of weather and historical features that can be exploited correct incorrect

e) all of the above correct incorrect

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. Welfare geography ________.

a) is an approach to human geography that maps and explains social and spatial variations correct incorrect

b) measures happiness, levels of crime, and health-related indicators correct incorrect

c) is concerned with how individual well-being varies spatially correct incorrect

d) all of the above correct incorrect

e) none of the above correct incorrect

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. ________ refers to a residential district in an urban area with a concentration of a particular group.

a) Placelessness correct incorrect

b) Ethnic dwelling correct incorrect

c) Assimilation correct incorrect

d) Chain migration correct incorrect

e) Ghetto correct incorrect