A Restaurant Owner in the 1950s Does Not Feel Negatively

question 15

Multiple Choice

A restaurant owner in the 1950s does not feel negatively toward African Americans but refuses to serve them in his restaurant because he fears that doing so would offend customers. According to Robert Merton's typology, the restaurant owner is a(n) ______________ .

• A) unprejudiced discriminator
• B) prejudiced nondiscriminator
• C) prejudiced discriminator
• D) unprejudiced nondiscriminator

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