SHSU, SOCI 2319, EXAM 1

In Milton Gordon's theory of assimilation, the crucial step is from:

ACCULTURATION TO INTEGRATION

The two groups projected yo increase dramatically in the United States over the next half of century are:

Asian and Pacific Islanders and Hispanic Americans

The one common factor that seems to account for the origin of all prejudice is

Competition between groups

The Bogardus scale of social distance suggests that prejudice is based in:

Culture

Avi was a tailor who immigrated to America in 1897 to avoid religious persecution in Russia. He settled in New York City and worked in the garment industry. Avi is an example of a(n):

Eastern European immigrant who was part of the New Immigration

Human capital theorists believe that the greatest investment in__________The higher the person's chances of success

Education, personal values, and skills

According to Lenski's theory, inequality in a postindustrial society would center on control of:

Educational opportunities and technologies

All intergroup contact reduces prejudice

False

Groups that are defined primarily by their culture characteristics are called racial minority groups

False

changes in subsistence technology from agriculture to industrialization to the "information society" do not alter the stratification system

False

Pluralism exist when

Groups remain separate, and their culture and social differences persist over time

which shift in subsistence technology resulted in the mass movement of people from europe to the united states between 1820 and 1920

Industrial revolution

Social structure is divided into primary and secondary sector's. primary sectors refers to

Interpersonal relationships that are intimate and personal such as families and friendship groups

"The most important source of inequality arises from a persons relationship to the means of production." This statement might be heard from a:

Marxist

elite segments of American society are using prejudice and racism to manipulate the thoughts and ideas of minority groups into brainwash them into accepting a position in society" this statement is most consistent with

Marxist analysis

Societies that I have a tradition of male dominance where men have more control over the economy and leadership positions in religion, politics, and other institutions are

Patriarchal

Most reported hate crimes are

Racially motivated, with blacks as a target

A politician states in a campaign speech that "it is in evitable that our group differences will disappear as we grow and mature as a society." The statement because the thinking of

Robert Park

Rosa was an Italian woman who immigrated to the United States in 1900 with her parents and sister. Which member of Rosa's family would most likely be completely assimilated?

Rosa's great-granddaughter

germany lost world war 1 and experienced severe problems with economic recession, unemployment, and horrific inflation during the 1920's. which theory/theories best explains the rise of the nazi party in germany in the 1930's?

Scapegoat theories

Which of the following is an example of selective perception

Seeing a Native American who is drinking in a bar but not noticing the Native American who is neatly dressed in a three-piece Armani suit; seeing the old man who pulls out on the freeway at 35 miles an hour while ignoring the good driver who happened to be elderly; not pressuring that an NFL football player could be gay; assuming that the female doctor is really nurse

Birds of Passage

Sojourners

Which of the following is not an example of the affective dimension of prejudice?

Stereotyping and overgeneralizations

Friends are to the primary sector as_______________Are to the secondary sector

Task orientated groups

What was one expression of anti-immigrant prejudice and racism?

The National Origins Act of 1924

According to power/conflict theory prejudice is not a matter of childhood experiences, social distance, or personal likes and dislikes, prejudice exist because someone or some group gains by it

True

the correlation between acts of violence against african americans in the south and the fall of cotton prices illustrates the concept of scapegoating

True

Which factors are intimately interlinked with (such that they mutually cause each other) European immigration to the United States?

U.S. industrialization and rise to global prominence

the feeling aspect of prejudice is called the _______ dimension

affective

Minority-group status affects access to different "life chances" including:

better health care access to wealth and income access to decent housing access to higher education

The Robber's Cave experiment supports the idea that prejudice can be caused by:

conflict situations between groups

Secondary sector

consists of groups and organizations taht are more public, task oriented, and impersonal. large and include business, factories, schools and colleges, and bureaucracies.

a criticism of the authoritarian personality theory of prejudice is that

does not consider the social settings in which an individual is acting

One of the variables that researchers suggest is the cause of the declining prejudice is

education

all of the following were important pathways of integration for european immigrants except:

education

The Equal Status Contact Hypothesis of prejudice argues that four conditions need to be present to reduce prejudice

equal status, common goals, intense interaction, and have active endorsement of authority

Which of the following is NOT an example of a cultural trait that may be associated with minority status?

facial features

In examining inequality, Weber might argue that a famous and wealthy rapper might rank

high on class, low on prestige

Strong norms of patriarchy determined the appropriate work for Italian female immigrants. They tended to work:

in jobs that could be done at home in single-sex settings among other immigrant women

Primary Sector

includes interpersonal relationships that are intimate and personal, such as families and groups of friends. small

Ethclass

intersection of the religious, ethnic, and social class

according to patricia hill collins opportunity and experience are shaped by

matrix of domination

some research suggests prejudice is declining in the united states, which suggests it might not be declining

modern racism and hate crimes

A small-town experiences a wave of anti-minority group violence in the weeks following the announcement of massive layoffs at the local factory. These incidents would be consistent with the predictions of:

scapegoat hypothesis

Mary and her brother, Patrick, are immigrants. They both speak English, share American values, and have many American friends, but Mary does well in school and gets a good job that pays a lot. Patrick does poorly in school and does not have a consistent job, making only minimum wage when he works. The two of them together are an example of:

segmented assimilation

Which of the following is NOT one of the defining characteristics of a minority group?

small group size

The traditional views of assimilation appear not to have explained:

the ethnic revival of the 1960s the decline of multiculturalism

Prejudice is to discrimination as

thinking is to doing

Skin color is an important marker of group membership in our society because it:

was selected during a complex and lengthy historical process became important because we attributed significance to it