SOC 215 Exam 2 Assessment Questions And Answers Guaranteed Pass.

Caste system - correct answer 2 or more rigidly defined and unequal groups based on ascribed status Class system - correct answer Position is based on achieved status Paternalistic race relations - correct answer Similar to a caste system, competition is prohibited, there is no racial conflict Examples in history of paternalistic race relations - correct answer Slavery in the US and South America Rigid competition - correct answer Similar to a cast system, perceived threat of competition, extensive open competition Examples from history of rigid competitive system - correct answer Jim crow, Apartheid Fluid competitive race relations - correct answer Open formalized discrimination is prohibited, the majority controls social institutions, discrimination still exists, heightened competition and conflict Examples of fluid competitive race relations - correct answer US and Britain today Colonization - correct answer Conquer and subordinate an indigenous group Annexation - correct answer Expansion into a territory Immigration - correct answer One group enters an established group and becomes a part of their society (can be voluntarily or involuntary) 3 conditions that must be present for intergroup contact to lead to ethnic stratification - correct answer 1. competition or opportunity for exploitation 2. ethnocentrism 3. unequal power What was the primary cause of slavery in the US and Western Hemisphere? - correct answer The plantation system How many slaves were owned by what percent of white southern families? - correct answer 1/2 were owned by only 3% of familities African Americans in the early to mid 17th century - correct answer Wee held to equal status of white indentured servants When was chattel slavery legally established - correct answer 1660s What theories are necessary to understand african enslavement - correct answer Functionalism and conflict Possible reasons blacks were enslaved - correct answer plantation system (primary factor), easier to enslave than other groups, ethnocentrism Why can't ethnocentrism alone explain enslavement of blacks - correct answer Prejudice was primarily against nin-Christians, and many white endentured servants were scottish, irish, or catholic What percent of the wage gap does slavery account for - correct answer 25% Where did africans settle in the great dismal swamps - correct answer mesic islands What is the estimated # of native americans/ independent nations - correct answer 7 million, 60 ndependent nations Reasons for british conquest and settlement of native americans - correct answer Trade, highly ethnocentirc, imposed christian conversion, settlement Primary reasons for Spanish conquest of native americans in FL and Southwest - correct answer Seeking wealth and to impose christian conversion-- pueblo revolt drove Spanish out of Northern New Mexico Primary reason for French conquest of Native Americans in Northeast - correct answer Primarily trade, they were generally less prejudiced, and less interested in settlement What percent of cherokee died during the trail of tears - correct answer 25% Similarities between plantations and reservations - correct answer Ethnocentrism, unequal power, competition (;and/or potential gain (labor) Differences between plantations and reservations - correct answer Continuous contact vs isolation Colonized minority - correct answer A group conquered by annex or force Immigrant minority - correct answer Entered willingly Oppositional identity - correct answer Rejection of dominant groups value and culture Draft riot - correct answer Whites protested being drafted to fight in civil war Plessy v ferguson 1896 - correct answer separate but equal doctrine upheld; legal segregation was enforced causing an increase in prejudice and ideological racism 18903 disenfranchisement - correct answer stripped blacks of political power for decades Lynchings as defined by NAACP - correct answer Must be evidence someone was illegally killed, 3 or more persons must have taken part in the killing, killers must have claimed to be serving justice/tradition Postbellum North - correct answer intensified prejudice, discrimination, and racist ideology Primary cause of chinese exclusion act - correct answer Economic competition on west coast WHo did executive order 9066 apply mostly to? - correct answer japenese americans How many interned were american born 2nd and 3rd generation? - correct answer 2/3rd Brown v board of education - correct answer Separate schools could not be equal; extended through the 50s and 60s to all publicly operated programs and facilities Mendez vs. Westminster - correct answer Preceded brown v. board, Civil rights acts of 1957, 1960, 1965 - correct answer Protected the voting rights of blacks and other minorities Civil rights act of 1964 - correct answer Ended segregation in public spaces and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, and national origin Civil rights act of 1968 (Fair housing act) - correct answer Prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and gender Factors causing changes in race relations - correct answer Industrialization & Urbanization, rising levels in education, economic growth, increased assertiveness of minorities Non hispanic whites make u what percentage of the US population - correct answer 2/3rds Largest 3 subsections of hispanics - correct answer Mexicans, puerto rican, cuban Largest native american tribes - correct answer Cherokee, Navajo, choctaw Largest native american reservation - correct answer Navajo region Largest Asian Populations - correct answer Chinese, Indian, Filipino What group has the highest median household income? - correct answer Asian How many times are whites wealthier than blacks and hispanics? - correct answer 13 times black, 10 times hispanic Who was the largest group in poverty and at what percent? - correct answer 41.2% non hispanic white The majority of African Americans live where? - correct answer In the south What percent of African Americans live in urban areas - correct answer 91% More than half of hispanics live where - correct answer CA and TX Puerto Rican are located where - correct answer Northeast Cubans are primarily located where - correct answer Florida Native