In Recent Years, Some New State Immigration Laws Have Encouraged

question 19

Multiple Choice

In recent years, some new state immigration laws have encouraged enforcement officers to be suspicious of Latinos or Hispanics as illegal immigrants and have required them to ask for proof of citizenship when doing return traffic stops. This example of what is often called "racial profiling" would be explained by racial formation theory as

• A) Class discrimination
• B) Xenophobia
• C) State-based racialization .
• D) Good law enforcement
• E) Neoconservatism

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Definitions:

Personality

The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character, influencing how they think, feel, and behave.

Conditioned

The process of learning by which a stimulus becomes associated with a specific response through conditioning, often used in behaviorism.

Behavioralist

A psychologist or researcher who studies behavior through observable actions and reactions, often ignoring mental state theories.

Sociocultural Perspective

Perspective that focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture; in psychopathology, perspective in which abnormal thinking and behavior (as well as normal) is seen as the product of learning and shaping within the context of the family, the social group to which one belongs, and the culture within which the family and social group exist.