SOC/308 SOC308 SOC 308 WEEK 2 QUIZ

SOC 308 WEEK 2 QUIZ

Week 2 - Quiz

Question 1

The U.S. Census is useful for measuring race because

 

there are common ideas about racial categories throughout the country.

 

 

the census mirrors all of the different ideas about race that Americans hold.

 

racial self-identification on the census is an important outlet for self-expression.

 

the census is an exact count of all different racial groups in the country.

 

 

Question 2

According to Matthew Hughey’s research in whiteness studies,

 

only racially conservative Whites believe that non-Whites are inferior to Whites.

 

there remains a sense of sameness in White identities across political and national differences.

  

those who identity as White rarely see themselves as victims.

 

  

most Whites do not believe that non-Whites behave in deviant ways.

 

 

Question 3

In comparing immigrants from Central America and South America, in general

 

immigrants from Central America are more affluent upon arrival and assimilate easily.

 

immigrants from South America usually arrive in the United States with more education and material resources.

 

the two groups have had very similar experiences, because both are technically indirect immigrants.

 

Central American immigrants have experiences more similar to earlier European immigrants than to Mexican-American immigrants.

 

Question 4

Progressive constitutional changes for blacks included

  

the Emancipation Proclamation.

 

 

the 3/5ths person rule that provided for counting slaves in congressional representation and taxation.

  

affirmative action after the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

 

 

the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery and the 14th amendment that guaranteed all citizens due process and equal protection of life, liberty, and property under the law.

 

Question 5

During the housing bust and recession that began in 2007, family assets in Hispanic families

 

increased, because some groups had shrewdly bought real estate at the bottom and sold it at the top, especially income property.

 

remained flat, despite slightly higher unemployment than other immigrant groups.

 

saw the greatest drop of any ethnic or racial group in the United States.

 

 

were often liquidated at a profit and sent back to countries of origin in the form of cash.

 

Question 6

The construction of gambling casinos on Indian reservations

 

 

has caused dissent within Indian-American communities and resulted in enough money for some tribes to buy back ancestral lands.

 

is uniformly opposed by most Native American groups who believe that casinos contradict their traditional ways of life in natural environments.

 

is uniformly supported by most Native American groups who have succeeded in constructing casinos and making them highly profitable.

 

has further increased rates of alcoholism and poverty as Native Americans have lost tribal money in gambling.

 

Question 7

In terms of the relation between ethnicity and race, researchers now believe that racial differences are not relevant in contemporary U.S. society because

 

race is just a social construction, so we should just talk about ethnicity.

 

 

racial difference is still very important, because race is a social construction and ethnicities are subsets of races.

 

we should follow the rule that different ethnicities have different racial groups within them.

  

the terms race and ethnicity can now be used interchangeably.

 

 

Question 8

The official census category of Asian Americans

 

adequately picks out a group that is uniformly identifiable in American society.

 

is an artificially created category, like that of Hispanic Americans, including many different nationalities and cultures.

 

includes Japanese and Chinese, but leaves out South Asians and Filipinos.

  

 

 

 

Question 9

Filipino Americans

 

have not been encouraged to emigrate by Filipino government leaders over the 20th century.

 

have been arriving in the U.S. since the 16th century and in the 21st century are often visible as skilled workers in health care.

 

are currently mainly employed in fishing and the restaurant and hotel industry.

  

only began arriving on U.S. shores after the Korean war.

 

 

Question 10

The main argument against the conclusions of the Moynihan report was data showing that

  

children in Black families suffered from absent fathers.

 

 

Black mothers were unable to provide the same attention to their children as stay at home White mothers, because they had to work outside the home.

 

high unemployment in Black communities was directly related to higher crime rates.

 

there was no evidence that children in Black families were raised without the same values and aspirations found in White families.