HDE 110: Midterm 1 Terms

Ch. 3: immigration laws and policies in order

1. Chinese Exclusion Act 2. Bracer Program 3. Amendments tot he Immigration and Nationality Act 4. Deferred action for Childhood Arrivals

Ch. 3: Immigrants

In the Unites States, about a quarter of the population are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. The historically high percentage of immigrants is due to legal changes beginning in 1965 that promoted family reunification.

Ch. 3: Race and Ethnicity

People who share a cultural identification can be grouped together under a single ethnicity, whereas those whoa re believed to share common genetic or biological descent are often seen as belonging to the same race. An important difference is that, in the United States, race is typically a more stable component of identity over the course of a persons life, whereas ethnicity, for some groups, is often voluntary.

Ch. 3: Most likely to intermarry with those of other races or ethnicities

1. white women 2. black women 3. black men 4. Hispanic Men

Ch.4: Which factors ask it difficult for the poor to advance economically in the united states?

Factors: - the failing minimum wage - increases in the number if single parent families

Ch.3: Identify the factors that have kept the rate of intermarriage low in the United States

Factors: - historic and current negative attitudes toward interracial marriage - school and neighborhood segregation

Ch.5: In general, throughout history and across cultures, parents have usually favored having females children over having male children

False

CH. 4: Examples of social mobility

Social Mobility - Calvin grew up poor, attended college on a scholarship, and eventually became a surgeon - Anita grew up in middle class but dropped out of high school and worked in a string of low wage jobs No Social Mobility -Ada grew up in a working class family, attended a technical school, and became trained and later employed doing skilled labor

Ch.4: Tax Policy

The United States uses the practice known as progressive taxation when taxing income, requiring the wealthy to pay a higher percentage compared with the middle class.

Ch. 4: The United States has more social mobility than most other wealthy countries

false

Ch.4: According to Melvins Kohn's classic series of studies, how do both middle and working class parents experience s with work influence their parenting?

parents teach there children the interpersonal skills that they use un their own jobs

Ch.3: Identify the examples the show how race is socially constructed

- A child who has one white parent and one black parent identifies as Black rather than biracial - A Latina immigrant is identified as white in her country of origin, but non white in the United States

Ch.4: Educational Inequality

Family socioeconomic status matters just as much as achievement scores in predicting college completion. This finding may be partially explained by changes in educational expectations during high school.

Ch. 3: Identify the term that describes the process of immigrants children adapting to a new culture more rapidly than their parents

Dissonant acculturation

Ch.4: examples of Social capital

- Kelly Herrera has been working in finance for five years but feels stuck in her position. She reaches out to an older alumna from her college and after their conversation, the alumna invites her to interview fir a better job at her company - two neighborhoods discuss their children upcoming entry into first grade. One parent suggests to the other that he lobbies for his daughter to be placed in Ms. Andrews classroom based in his previous poor experience with the other first grade teacher.

Ch. 3: Match each term to the group it most specifically represents: a race, an ethnicity, or a racial ethnicity.

Ethnicity: Italian American Race: Black, White Racial Ethnicity: Latino, African American

Ch. 3: Identify the statements about acculturation and assimilation as either true or false.

True: - learning the language of the host society is important for both processes - Acculturation can happen without acceptance by the host society, but that is not the case for assimilation - acculturation can happen without assimilation, but not vice versa False: - Assimilation most often occurs before acculturation

Ch. 3: Identify the statement that accurately describe how racial classifications still matter, even though they are socially constructed

- Racial differences are an important factor in how individual are treated by others in society - families still experience and reflect racial categories through a preference for endogamy

Ch. 3: Identify the reason why humans di not develop distinctly different genetic makeups along racial lines.

- all humans lived in the same region until relatively recently, intermittent of evolutionary time - migration across "racial" boarders produced mixed children, preventing the formation of very different races

Ch.4: problems with the povertiesy line calculation today

-the prices of food has risen more slowly then the price of other goods and services - the calculation of the poverty line does not take government benefits into account - the calculation of the poverty line does not take geographic are into account

Ch. 3: Immigrant Generation Examples

.5 Generation: Because her son needed help with child care in his new texas home, Maria immigrated to the United States at the age of 63. 1.5 Generation: At 6 years old, Ye-jun came to the United States from South Korea with his parents. Now in elementary school, he speaks English fluently and is well integrated with his peers. Second generation: Kwame was born to immigrant parents from Ghana. Now a teenager, he disagrees with his parents about the appropriateness of his friends, clothing, and interests. Third generation: Michelle has a Russian grandmother who shares recipes with her and tells her stories about her life in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s

Ch. 3: What it means to be white in America has evolved over time. Place the following events in chronological order, according to the development of whiteness in the United States

1. The "American" race referred to dependents of Europeans 2. The term white referred to hose of European dependents, except for recent immigrants who lived in ethnic ghettos 3. Economic mobility, intermarriage, and migration resulted in recent European immigrants ebbing seen as white 4. white became a catchall term for Americans who hailed from European ancestry

Ch.4: Which theorists introduced s concept to help explain the social class position of college students, who may not have an occupation or earnings?

Max Weber

Ch4. Reasons why two parent families are less likely to be poor than single parent families?

Reasons: - two adults in a household can both work, and thus draw more income - two adults in s household can elect to have one parent stay home with the children