SOWK 147 Final Exam (100% Errorless Answers)

principle of third-generation interest correct answers Marcus Hansen's contention that ethnic interest and awareness increase in the third generation, among the grandchildren of immigrants Ethnic Paradox correct answers maintenance of one's ethnic ties in a manner that can assist with some assimilation within a larger society Ex.) Health measures, educational attainment, lower incidence of behavioral problems Symbolic Ethnicity correct answers Sociologist Herbert Gans's term that describes emphasis on ethnic food, holidays, and political issues relative to "the old country" rather than deeper ties to one's ethnic heritage. ** Symbolic ethnicity does not generally interfere with what people do, read, or say or even whom they befriend or marry Minority correct answers any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates Jews are a minority group correct answers - experience unequal treatment - Share a cultural history that distinguishes them from the dominant group -Ascribed status or involuntary status - In-group marriage Law of Return correct answers Defines who is a Jew and extends Israeli citizenship to all Jews Racial correct answers Jewish people are not physically differentiated from non-jews Religious correct answers There are specific Judaic religious beliefs, holidays and rituals. These beliefs and practices do not distinguish all Jews from non-jews Ethnic correct answers Jewish identity is ethnic. Jewish people share cultural traits not physical features or uniform religious beliefs Judaization correct answers the lessening importance of Judaism as a religion and the substitution of cultural traditions as the tie that binds Jews Diaspora correct answers the exile of the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland in Palestine several centuries before Christianity, and dispersal throughout the world Anti-Semitism correct answers Anti-Jewish prejudice and discrimination Stereotypes correct answers unreliable, exaggerated generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account