Sociology 101

Chapter 11: Racial and Ethnic Inequality and Conflict

1. How common around is world is fear and loathing of strangers?
2. When Asians first came into contact with Europeans what did the the Asians referred to the Europeans as?
3. According to the author of your text, why is "race" sociologically important?
4. Which of the following have occurred in the United states? extermination, accommodation, expulsion, and segregation?
5. Sociologists are increasingly convinced that the way to resolve prejudice is ________________.
6. According to Gordon Allport's theory of contact what type of situations would be most likely to decrease prejudice?
7. What did the summer camp studies by Muzafer and Carolyn Sherif show?
8. What question did Gunnar Myrdal explore in his classic study The American Dilemma?
9. According to many social scientists, was racial prejudice was more an effect or more a cause of slavery?
10. How did the Protestant majority view Catholics in the United States in terms of economics?
11. What factor is behind racial and ethnic conflict that has been the focus of Edna Bonacich?
12. If Edna Bonacich's theory is correct, which of the following people would be most directly threatened by the majority of immigrant workers? a tailor, a certified electrician. a janitor. a physician or all of the above.
13. As a group, the "Okies" became a target of discrimination and hostile stereotyping by native white Californians because Okies posed an economic threat to them and because of ____________________?
14. Why have many of the old ethnic conflicts have now been forgotten?
15. In America prior to World War II how educated were Japanese-American children?
16. What was the cost to Japanese Americans of the internment during World War II?
17. What does enclave theory stress in terms of economic progress?
18. According to the text, for an ethnic group to really economically succeed long term, what two things must the group accomplish?
19. What do most Hispanic Americans prefer to be called: American, Hispanic, or by their country of origin?
20. Which of the following Hispanic groups has the highest median incomes? Cuban-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, or Central Americans?
21. By observing the experiences of upward social mobility among the major Hispanic groups, what is reasonable advice to give to new immigrants wishing to succeed in the United States?
22. African Americans who early in the 20th century moved from the South the the North, could be compared to the experience of what European immigrant group?
23. What skills did the African Americans bring with them to the North?
24. The longer that African Americans have ____, the higher their education and the better their jobs.
25. What is the impact of the large size of the African American group in the United States?