SOCI 217 Final Exam
According to Reyna's article on "Looking Illegal"' what have been some of the ramifications of the United States' construction of "illegality" in relation to immigration? (Select all that apply)
- Conflation of race, legal status, nativity, and generation - Discrimination across multiple contexts - Negative treatment regardless of actual documented status
According to van den Berghe, what are the three principles on which all human societies are organized?
- Kin Selection - Homogeneity of Populations
Which of the following refer to some of the ways in which Herbert Blumer defines the basic types of feeling that seem to be always present in race prejudice of the dominant group?
- a feeling that the subordinate race is intrinsically different or alien - a fear and suspicion that the subordinate race harbors designs on the prerogatives of the dominant race
What is the process by which a group acquires the social and psychological characteristics of their host society, often across three major stages?
Assimilation
What was the first migrant group to be included on the 1870 Census?
Chinese
Which of the following is an example of systemic discrimination?
Welfare Reform
Prejudice refers to the way in which actions that take place against a racial group based on their racial identity.
False
Race is considered an achieved status
False
How might someone who takes a Marxist approach to race approach an issue related to neighborhood segregation in 2018?
In order to keep the neighborhood economically stable, non-upper class racial minorities are kept in lower service jobs barring them from affording houses in the area
Name 1 way critique of classical assimilation theory
It assumes that individuals want to conform to the mainstream
Marcel was born to an affluent white family and raised with an ideology that everyone should pull themselves up by their bootstraps to succeed. Although Marcel recognizes overt forms of racism, he believes that individual outcomes are due to one's own choices and success since "segregation is no longer legal." Therefore, Marcel does not recognize that race may act as a societal stratifying mechanism. This would be a form of what?
Laissez-Faire Racism
A recent study came out that explores how individuals in middle schools develop their racial identity through interactions and academic performance. This is what type of approach?
Micro-Level
Bonilla-Silva discusses refers to this term as "societies in which economic, political, social, and ideological levels are partially structure by the placement of actors in racial categories or races."
Racialized Social System
Intermarriage and the rise of multi-racial identities has led to a closing of the color line
True
(Blank) was the individual who headed the first sociological school in Atlanta, GA
WEB DuBois
(Blank) racism refers to racism that assumes inherent differences between the races and has led to multiple human rights atrocities
biological racism
(Blank) refers to how continual waves of migrants from certain parts of the world harden racial boundaries between the immigrant group and the mainstream, or majority, group
immigrant replenishment
RACISM =
prejudice + power
(Blank) refers to the process in which race operates as a central axis of social relations, which then determine social, economic, and political institutions and practices
racial formation
Which of the following is the definition of "classic liberalism"?
school of thought stressing individual freedom and limited government
