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This course explores the major social problems affecting contemporary society, examining their origins, consequences, and potential solutions. Topics include poverty, inequality, crime, substance abuse, discrimination, environmental issues, and family challenges. Through sociological theories and empirical research, students will analyze how social problems are defined, the impact of social institutions, and the roles of policy and advocacy in addressing these issues. The course fosters critical thinking and encourages students to develop informed perspectives on the complexities of social life and the efforts aimed at social change.
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Racial and Ethnic Relations in America 7th Edition by S.
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Chapter 1: Natives and Newcomers
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Q1) Which group is more likely to follow the three generations process?
A) voluntary immigrants
B) involuntary immigrants
C) conquered groups
D) slaves
Answer: A
Q2) Americanization is in effect the opposite of assimilation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) If you are born in the United States,your parents were born in the United States,and your grandparents immigrated to the United States,then you are considered:
A) first generation.
B) second generation.
C) third generation.
D) fourth generation.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Together or Apart Some Competing Views
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Q1) In Chapter Two,the authors keep their discussion of assimilation at the:
A) societal level.
B) group level.
C) personal level.
D) immigrant level.
Answer: B
Q2) Sometimes assimilation includes the adoption of cultural standards form groups other than the mainstream group in a society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) All of the following fit the early "American" assimilation patter,except:
A) English cultured.
B) Protestant.
C) English languaged.
D) non-White.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Anglo American Society
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Q1) The colony at Jamestown depended heavily on this Indian tribe for survival its first year.
A) Powhatans
B) Cayugas
C) Mohawks
D) Oneidas
Answer: A
Q2) Ulstermen were regarded as clean,hard working,and literate.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Virginia's unexpected source of wealth became:
A) gold.
B) silver.
C) meat.
D) tobacco.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The Golden Door
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Q1) The National-Origins Principle has been:
A) perpetuated in immigration practice to this day.
B) modified slightly into the INNA of 1962.
C) eliminated by later legislation.
D) groundbreaking in the 1990s.
Q2) Most refugees who came to the United States came in the first great immigration stream.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Recent immigration patterns have reversed the "browning of America" trend some have observed.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Germans form mutual aid societies to help new immigrants coming to the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What motivated the Irish,Germans,Eastern and Southern Europeans,and Jews to migrate to the United States (push factors) What were their perceived pull factors and how did they find out about them?
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Chapter 5: Nativism and Racism
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Q1) In 1999,the median income for Blacks in the United States was:
A) $51,224.
B) $26,789.
C) $45,190.
D) $31,788.
Q2) Respondents scoring high on the F-Score scored high on:
A) fascism.
B) frustration-aggression.
C) fanaticism.
D) forensic-orientation.
Q3) The authors demonstrate how researchers used science to support their racist ideas.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The ideas of scientific racism were under strong attack during the twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Summarize the main theories of prejudice providing a pro and con argument for each one.
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Chapter 6: African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation
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Q1) The tenancy and sharecropping system worked to the disadvantage of practically everyone but the lenders.
A)True
B)False
Q2) White and Black Union troops were paid the same wage from the outset.
A)True
B)False
Q3) After the Civil War the North divided the southern states into ten military districts.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Fogel ended up writing two books on the effects of slavery.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The KKK's values were integrated into the everyday lives of White Protestants. A)True
B)False
Q6) In 1890 Mississippi led the southern states in disenfranchising Black voters. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: African Americans: Protest and Social Change
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Q1) Many critics of the Moynihan report focus on his assumption that Black problems are caused by the Black family.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Black-White intermarriages have been ________ in recent decades.
A) declining
B) increasing
C) remaining stable
D) leading to unprecedented levels of divorces
Q3) Percent plans have been universally successful in creating fairness and diversity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which decade saw a calming of the civil rights activism?
A) 1950s
B) 1960s
C) 1970s
D) 2000s
Q5) Briefly summarize the legal orders,cases,and rulings that lead up to the 2003 Michigan cases with Affirmative Action.
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Chapter 8: Mexican Americans: From Colonized Minority to Political Activists
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Q1) Make the argument that Mexican American immigrants resemble second stream immigrants, giving specific evidence to support your claim.
Q2) The second wave of Mexican Americans came to the United States since: A) 1890-1907.
B) 1900-1919.
C) 1921-1930.
D) 1945-1960.
Q3) It took the United States about ________ years to establish control over the Mexican Americans living on the land between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande.
A) 20
B) 40
C) 60 D) 84
Q4) In the Texas frontier most people were a mixture of Spanish and Indian,also called: A) Mestizo.
B) Braceros.
C) Tecanos.
D) Jetanos.
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Chapter 9: Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans: Identity and Incorporation
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Q1) Make the argument that Hispanics represent a very diverse ethnic category of peoples.Use evidence from Chapter 9.
Q2) The ________ Act of 1968,Title VII was an amendment to the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act which funded bilingual education programs.
A) Language Equity
B) Fairness in Learning
C) Bilingual
D) English-Only
Q3) The historic concentration of the Latino population in the United States is where?
A) Southeast
B) Northwest
C) Southwest
D) Midwest
Q4) Williams (1990) found that Mexican Americans are trying to assimilate into Anglo America when seeking professions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How is Puerto Rico similar to or different from the current 50 U.S.states?
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Chapter 10: Native Americans: the First Americans
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Q1) Indians are on the road to higher levels of assimilation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Through the Indian Reorganization Act,programs were established to help Indians:
A) file grievance for violent acts.
B) recover some of their lost lands.
C) recover their adopted children.
D) sue the federal government as a sovereign nation.
Q3) As the 20th century approached,the population of Indians was only:
A) 2 million.
B) 240,000.
C) 500,000.
D) 100,000.
Q4) The takeover of Alcatraz Island failed at every level.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define some of the pros and cons of gaming and financial success to the collective Native American Experience.List five things that might help natives to preserve their traditional ways of life.
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Chapter 11: The Japanese Experience
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Q1) As one might expect,assimilation was highest among the Sansei.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Contrast the internment of Japanese Americans to the reservation experience of Native Indians in the United States focusing on land,safety,and fears of dominant group members.
Q3) The most important Issei group was the:
A) Shogun.
B) Jenjinkai riku.
C) Kenjinkai.
D) Yonsei Kenjin.
Q4) All of the arrested and imprisoned Japanese Americans during WWII were tried and convicted.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare and contrast the middle-man minority and ethnic-enclave theories in explaining the Japanese American experience.Which do you prefer and why?
Q6) Briefly summarize the Gentlemen's Agreement,how it came to be,how the Japanese handled it in the United States,and how it disappeared.
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Chapter 12: Chinese, Asian Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, and Middle Eastern Arab Americans
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Q1) The rich family tradition,compadrinazgo,was ________ by early Filipino immigrants.
A) ignored
B) not reproduced
C) reproduced exactly
D) supported by U.S. mainstream culture
Q2) Briefly list,date,and describe the laws written against the Chinese and Koreans.Also list the key historical events and laws that reversed them.
Q3) The U.S.Supreme Court supported early efforts for Asian Indians to become citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most Chinese immigrated to the United States after 1965.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Of the Chinese who came to America,about two-thirds came since: A) 1845. B) 1910.
C) 1943. D) 1965.
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Chapter 13: Vietnamese Americans, Arab Americans, and Resurgent Racism
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Q1) The third-period Arab immigrants have more in common with the second-period than the first-period Arab immigrants.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Vietnamese appear to be ________ a sequence of adaptation to the American setting that would produce results resembling those found among other Asian immigrant groups.
A) ignorant of B) purposefully avoiding C) following
D) distracted by
Q3) Laos had virtually no displaced persons because it took a neutral position during the war.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates ________ active U.S.hate groups.
A) 256
B) 376
C) 700
D) 1,200
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Chapter 14: The Future of Ethnicity
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Q1) Most early colonial immigrant groups took exactly three generations to assimilate.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Support the claim that cultural pluralism is common among U.S.ethnic groups.
Q3) African Americans came to accept cultural pluralism ideas after the 1960s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bobo,Kluegel,and Smith refer to the fact that White people underestimate the importance of the status of being White in American society as:
A) White ignorance.
B) White privilege.
C) laissez-faire racism.
D) laissez-faire ethnogenesis.
Q5) According to the authors,White people are rarely forced to think about:
A) White ethnicity.
B) White legal definitions.
C) White traditional heritage.
D) White forfeited cultures.
Q6) Provide three evidences that interracial relations are NOT fixed over time.
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