Deck 1: Natives and Newcomers

Question 1

Which group can claim to have been in America for more than five centuries?

A) Native Americans
B) English
C) Black slaves
D) Spanish

Answer 1

C

Question 2

All of the following factors affect assimilation except:

A) voluntary or involuntary immigration.
B) ethnic and racial similarity.
C) love of one's homeland.
D) differences in social power.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Generally speaking,which generation of immigrants may move more completely into the ? mainstream of American society?

A) first generation
B) second generation
C) third generation
D) fourth generation

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The most frequently chosen racial trait that is not very useful in distinguishing between the ? races is:

A) hair.
B) face.
C) body shape and size.
D) skin.

Question 5

Ethnogenesis is argued to involve ________ negotiation among various racial and ethnic ? groups and the dominant group.

A) segmented
B) continual
C) exclusively formal
D) exclusively informal

Question 6

Robert E.Park's theory called the cycle of race relations had four processes or stages.All of the ? following belong to those stages,except:

A) uniformity.
B) contact.
C) competition.
D) accommodation.

Question 7

For the most part,many in America believe that there is one single course to assimilation.? Today,this notion:

A) stands unchallenged.
B) has been supported in spite of numerous challenges.
C) has been true for all newcomers to America.
D) is believed to be false based on the evidence.

Question 8

All of the following are factors relating to assimilation or straight-line theory,except:

A) highly controversial
B) assumes that most look backwards not forward
C) assumes that each generation reaches higher social and economic standards
D) assumes that the longer a group has been in America, the more successful they become

Question 9

When sociologists focus on a group's cultural traits and heritage they are concerned with:

A) race.
B) ethnicity.
C) marital assimilation.
D) secondary assimilation.

Question 10

Which of the following researchers discussed the issue of subsocieties and subcultures in ? assimilation?

A) Park
B) Gordon
C) Hansen
D) Handlin

Question 11

The boundaries between and within racial and ethnic groups are:

A) sharp and fixed.
B) dull and in flux.
C) not sharp and fixed.
D) not dull and in flux.

Question 12

"It is absolutely essential that we study the ________ ________ that have created the ? dominant-subordinate group relations of interest to us."

A) minority sequences
B) historical sequences
C) ethnic patterns
D) racial patterns

Question 13

Ethnic identities combined with networks with co-ethnics of the same social class form a ? subsociety called:

A) underclass.
B) underethnics.
C) immigrant class.
D) ethclasses.

Question 14

Of all the assimilation researchers mentioned in this text,the authors chose to focus most on ? the works of:

A) Park.
B) Gordon.
C) Hansen.
D) Handlin.

Question 15

Which group is more likely to follow the three generations process?

A) voluntary immigrants
B) involuntary immigrants
C) conquered groups
D) slaves

Question 16

The most powerful group in a society is called the ________ group.

A) minority
B) subordinate
C) all powerful
D) majority

Question 17

Which researcher studied the Irish in his contribution to the theory of assimilation?

A) Park
B) Gordon
C) Hansen
D) Handlin

Question 18

The three generations description applied to which of the following?

A) second immigration English
B) Native Americans
C) Mexican Americans
D) Black slaves

Question 19

The correlation between geography and skin color is:

A) perfect.
B) not perfect.
C) the single best indicator of race.
D) the key to understanding ethnicity.

Question 20

Thomas Jefferson and Strom Thurmond share a common experience.Which is it?

A) They both ran for president with Black vice presidential candidates.
B) They both were divorced in their twenties.
C) They both were injured in wars.
D) They both fathered children with a Black woman.

Question 21

________ is the concentration of a group of people within a particular area primarily because ? they wish to be together.

A) Convolution
B) Congregation
C) Segregation
D) Subvolution

Question 22

The popular view assumes that assimilation occurs in three generations.

Question 23

If you think of yourself as belonging to a group of "we" rather than "they," then you are ? referring to your:

A) in-group.
B) out-group.
C) reference-status.
D) role exchange.

Question 24

Most scholars claim that Blacks and Whites strictly avoided sexual relations throughout U.S.? history.

Question 25

Americanization is in effect the opposite of assimilation.

Question 26

Americans generally believe that an individual's rewards and place in society should depend ? heavily on his or her ________ characteristics.

A) ascribed
B) appropriated
C) achieved
D) acknowledged

Question 27

In which U.S.Census did the Census takers allow people to check two or more races for the ? very first time?

A) 1790
B) 1880
C) 1950
D) 2000

Question 28

On the 2000 U.S.Census approximately ________ million marked two or more races.

A) 1.8
B) 6.8
C) 12.8
D) 138

Question 29

The authors quote Spickard who stated that "Everywhere one looks,ethnic divisions ? ________."

A) disappear
B) persist
C) combat
D) elude us

Question 30

Whites have been the largest and most powerful group throughout U.S.history.

Question 31

Your race,sex,ethnicity,family status,and age are all ________ characteristics.

A) ascribed
B) appropriated
C) achieved
D) acknowledged

Question 32

American Indians assimilated in three generations.

Question 33

In the text,Prewitt is cited as one who believes that race may ________ in legal,political,and ? public consciousness spheres.

A) remerge
B) solidify
C) appear
D) disappear

Question 34

America's cultural and racial diversity has decreased appreciably in the last decade.

Question 35

The United States is often described as a nation of nations.

Question 36

The most important component of dominance is not power,but size in number of group ? members.

Question 37

________ is the concentration of a group of people within a particular area primarily because ? the minority group has left them little choice.

A) Convolution
B) Congregation
C) Segregation
D) Subvolution

Question 38

The authors argue that there is really only one uniform process leading to Americanization.

Question 39

Straight-line theory is very controversial among scholars.

Question 40

If you are born in the United States,your parents were born in the United States,and your ? grandparents immigrated to the United States,then you are considered:

A) first generation.
B) second generation.
C) third generation.
D) fourth generation.

Question 41

In the 1980 Census,98 percent of those who described their ancestry as American had three ? generations in the United States.

Question 42

Americanization has only had undesirable aspects for all in the United States.

Question 43

Explain the concept of ethclass,then apply it to the Mexican American experience.

Question 44

The U.S.Census has always asked for identification of two or more races.

Question 45

Blacks in the United States represent a pure race of Black-only ancestry,dating back to the ? 1600s.

Question 46

To analyze U.S.race and ethnic relations,we must recognize the social reality of the racial and ? ethnic categories that exist in society.

Question 47

What makes the United States racially and ethnically unique in comparison to any European ? country? Focus on historical immigration patterns.

Question 48

The authors focus on Kennedy's work throughout the entire text and basically ignore Gordon's ? work.

Question 49

Many newcomers to the United States resisted assimilation.

Question 50

Describe the U.S.majority group and the difficulties non-Whites have had in being included in ? this group.

Question 51

White resistance to the inclusion of groups has been lower for non-White than for Whites.

Question 52

Kazal claimed that the process of construction or invention which incorporates,adapts,and ? amplifies preexisting communal solidarities,cultural attributes and historical memories is ? crucial to ethnicity.

Question 53

Kennedy found that assimilation occurred within the various religious groups she studied.

Question 54

Gordon denied the influence of subsocieties in assimilation.

Question 55

Some argue that race is sociopolitical rather than scientific as a concept.

Question 56

Recent immigration patterns to the United States have taken on a transnational character.

Question 57

People tend to assume that groups based on physical and social inheritance are natural and of ? special importance.

Question 58

Compare and contrast the concepts of race and ethnicity.How do they overlap at times?

Question 59

Hansen found that grandchildren of immigrants experienced a revival of interest in the culture ? of the old country of their grandparents.

Question 60

Compare and contrast Handlin's and Gordon's approaches to assimilation.Why is Gordon's ? more useful?

Question 61

Why is it becoming more and more difficult to formally and informally classify people by race?

Question 62

If you had to present an argument that race is a social,political,historical,and traditional
construct rather than a biological construct,then which key points could you include in a list of ten supporting claims for your argument?

Question 63

Explain the role of economics in the assimilation process for new immigrants,focusing on ? labor demands at the time of entry into the United States.

Question 64

Explain why newcomers might resist assimilation and why their grandchildren might find ? their grandparents' homeland so interesting.

Question 65

A number of factors affect the rate at which members of a given group are included within
American society.List those factors then apply them to Irish immigrants of 1840s and African immigrants of 2000.