BBH 302 Exam #2 Questions And Answers With Verified Solutions Graded A+

2015 U.S census black populations - -14.5% of american population is black -13.3% is black only According to Galea, 38% of all deaths that occurred in the U.S in the year 2000 were due to - - Social inequality -residential racial segregation -poverty According to the film, Unnatural Causes: In sickness and wealth, home ownership predicted the likelihood of what - getting a cold after being exposed to the virus african americans in 1990 - -by 1900 the black population was 11.6% of population -90% lived in the south, and three out of four lived on farms -by 1940 the african american population had grown to over 12 million, 77% still lived in rural areas in the south annual income of blacks between 1920 and 1943 - increased from 3 billion to 10 billion assimilation requires - host country acceptance being well off in a bad neighborhood is better than.. - being poor in a nice neighborhood case and deaton findings on education levels with health - Although all three educational groups saw increases in mortality from suicide and poisonings, and an overall increase in external cause mortality, increases were largest for those with the least education.Case and Deaton's study of overall mortality among White Americans, aged 45-54 years old between revealed that - -mortality rates among similarly aged African Americans declined compared to Whites but the overall mortality rate was still higher -mortality rates among similarly aged Latinos declined compared to whites but their overall mortality was actually lower -mortality rate increases among whites were greatest in the lower educational groups conclusion of case and deaton - -The increased availability of opioid prescriptions for pain that began in the late 1990s has been widely noted. -Tighter controls on opioid prescription brought some substitution into heroin in areas where heroin had been previously largely unknown. -The productivity slowdown in the early 1970s, and with widening income inequality, many of the babyboom generation are the first to find, in midlife, that they will not be better off than were their parents (intergenerational mobility). -Future financial insecurity may weigh more heavily on US workers because of the lack of a strong social safety net (social drift theory). -Those currently in midlife will age into Medicare in worse health than the currently elderly congressional power of slave states - -3/5 compromise gave a disproportionate representation of slave states in the house of representatives compared to the voters in the free states -as a result, southern states had more influence on the presidency and in the supreme court culture and attitudes - -norms (expected behavior) -values (what is important) -beliefs (conception of what the world is) difference between 20th century italians, irish, and jews to current - -they were all thought to be racial (not ethnic) groups whose members were inherently and irredeemably distinct from the white population -now they are seen as ethnic groups that are included in the majority white population english study illustrates that the more forms of social advantage a person has... - the lower the chances of death over timeenglish study used to understand the nature of social hierarchy looked at what - -owning their own car -owning/ renting their own house -did their labor involve manual or non manual labor ethnicity - -set of kinship ties related to a sense of ancestral identification with a segment of the world's population -ascribed characteristic rather than chosen -must be understood from the vantage point of community rather than small groups -refers to social dynamics of a group rather than race or biological nature ethnicity as culture - -culture is a part of ethnicity -every society has a culture -culture is a learned behavior -culture is transmitted from one generation to another -culture changes even if ethnicity remains the same -multiple cultural identities can exist even within the same education level and SES... - blacks die sooner than whites excess deaths - observed deaths are higher than expected deaths and the difference great migration and health of black americans - -dramatic rise in their use of alcohol and tabacco healthy immigrant effect - afrcian immigrants being healthier than african americans even with infectious diseases and unique health problems housing discrimination - actions and inaction of local and federal government, financial institutions, and real estate companies were used to entrap blacks in inner-city ghettos