SOC 215 MidTerm Exam Questions With Well Elaborated Answers.

Six Patterns of Race/Ethnic Relations - correct answer Extermination, Continued Subjugation, Population Transfer, Legal Protection of Minorites, Pluralism, and Assimilation Legal Immigration by country - correct answer Mexico China India Philippines States with largest immigrant population - correct answer Cali- 27% NY-22% Florida-19% Groups with highest education - correct answer Jewish Asian Indian Chinese American Filipino American Groups highest family income - correct answer Japanese American Asian Indian White Filipino American Poorest - correct answer Puerto Rican African American Native American Least Educated - correct answer Hmong American Cambodian American Laotian American Relationship between the structural structural psychological dimensions are...... - correct answer Dialect + Dynamic Sense of Threat -------- Discrimination - correct answer People discriminate when they feel threatened by the presence of an ethnic group. Size of ethnic sub-population ------------ Sense of Threat - correct answer The sense of threat increases when the threatening ethnic group is large. Resources of ethnic sub-population --------- Sense of Threat - correct answer Sense of threat increases when the threatening ethnic group has entrepreneurial or educational resources Negative beliefs + stereotypes ---------- Discrimination - correct answer When threatened, those who discriminate, justify their actions by forming negative beliefs and stereotypes about the threatening ethnic group. Negative beliefs + stereotypes --------- Sense of Threat - correct answer When these stereotypes are formulated, the negative portrayal the ethnic group more threatening Anglo-Saxon Core - correct answer denotes an ethic complex consisting of light "white" skin; Protestant religious beliefs; Protestant-inspired values; and English cultural traditions and institutional structures First Europeans to engage in slave trade? - correct answer Portugese Birth of the new world led to ___________ - correct answer Slavery Reasons why Native Americans weren't slaves - correct answer 1. Natives the land better so they could escape 2. They were dying off When did the slavery of blacks start to be legalized? - correct answer 18th century When was slavery outlawed ? - correct answer 1865 Continued Subjugation - correct answer the majority group wants to maintain its privilege over the subordinate group Population Transfer - correct answer The minority group is not liked or needed, and the majority group would simply like to remove them Example of population transfer - correct answer The "Trail of Tears" Legal Protection of minorities - correct answer the majority makes laws to protect the minorities from the hostile sentiments and action of a segment of the majority population Pluralism - correct answer dominant group is willing or permit or encourage cultural variations within the broader confines of national unity Red Summer - correct answer White communities pushed black people off property and claimed it for themselves Labor-intensive society - correct answer minority has to be subjugated and told that labor is their place Capital-intensive, technological society - correct answer the minority can play any role in society since certain groups aren't needed to do disliked jobs Assimilation - correct answer minority group is completely eliminated through two types of interbreeding: Genetic + Cultural Genetic interbreeding - correct answer distinctive genes add biological traits lost through sexual interbreeding Cultural interbreeding - correct answer distinctive cultural elements lost when minority groups abandon its cultural traits to adopt those of the dominant group Minority - correct answer subordinate group Majority - correct answer superior group Prejudice - correct answer ideology an attitude of aversion or hostility toward members of a group Power - correct answer refers to the ability of one group/person to behave any way they choose in the face of resistance; ability to control the behavior of others Racism - correct answer group ideology used to justify organized social order Discrimination - correct answer behaviors + actions used to justify organized social order Bourgeoisie - correct answer owners of means of production (dominant/elite) Proletariet - correct answer workers 4 Models of Bonacich - correct answer Super exploitation, split-labor market model, middle-man minority, integrated model 2 examples of super exploitation model - correct answer -slavery of blacks -South America before liberation