QUESTION 1 According to the chapter 1 of Healey\'s book, economics and the movem

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QUESTION 1

According to the chapter 1 of Healey's book, economics and the movement of jobs and opportunity from place to place is the key understanding contemporary immigration.

True

False

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QUESTION 2

Within this social system type, men have more control over the economy, and more access to eladership roles in religion, politics, and other institutions. Western Europe and North America have a strong tradition of this type of social organization.

Oligarchy

Plutocracy

Matriarchy

Patriarchy

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QUESTION 3

The basis of this law is still in effect today and has three main principles for immigration policy: reunification of families, protection of the domestic labor force, and the immigration of persons with special skills. It also retained the concept of the National Origins System, and at the time gave unrestricted immigration from the Western Hemisphere. This law was amended in 1965.

This question is derived from one of our Unit #2 readings in the Annual Editions text.

The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952

The Mexican "Repatriation" Campaign

Immigrant Quota System

Nativist Movements

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QUESTION 4

A minority group always has to have fewer members than the dominant group in any given society.

True

False

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QUESTION 5

Within our 20th edition of Annual Editions Unit #2 readings, there is the section aboutBrown v. Topeka Board of Education, the monumental 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with segregation and educational facilities across the United States. This case ended the "separate but equal" doctrine announced by an earlier decision from the U.S. Supreme Court?

Sweatt v. Painter

Georgia v. Furman

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Plessy v. Ferguson

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QUESTION 6

People often think in terms of the American experience of _____________ as the "melting pot."

assimilation

pluralism

Anglo-conformity

gender construction

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QUESTION 7

This term means mutual respect for all groups and for the multiple heritages that have shaped the United States.

cultural relativism

multiculturalism

stereotypes

prejudice

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QUESTION 8

The _____________ ____________ decision in 1857 centered on a slave who wished to use the federal courts to sue for his freedom, but access to the courts was predicated on citizenship. The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed his case as "all other Blacks, free and enslaved, were not and could never be citizens because they were 'a subordinate and inferior class of beings.'" This is found in our Annual Editions book, 20th edition, in Unit #2.

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QUESTION 9

From our Unit #1 Annual Editions readings, which statement is NOT correct about the historical responses of the US to the Mexican immigration in the past?

Mexican immigration has a long history, and Mexican citizens already began immigrating to the US in significant numbers before 1900.

During the Second World War, Mexican nationals were welcomed with open arms again, but in more than 1 million persons of Mexican descent were expelled from the US by "Operation Wetback."

During the time of economic distress like the Great Depression, many of the Mexican immigrants were "repatriated" to Mexico.

The Mexican refugees who left their country because of economic conditions and political upheaval were welcomed by Americans in early 20th century, because they helped to alleviate the labor shortage caused by the First World War.

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QUESTION 10

Term used to describe offspring of an illegal immigrant who under current legal interpretation becomes a U.S. citizen at birth. These children may qualify for welfare, and other state and local benefit programs.

4 points   

QUESTION 11

According to our Annual Editions readings in Unit #1, how many African-born people live in the United States in 2010?

1 million

4 million

40 million

2 million

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QUESTION 12

Scientists have concluded that skin color and other racial traits have little scientific, evolutionary, medical, or biological importance.

True

False

4 points   

QUESTION 13

From our Unit #1 readings, Ferguson police are much more likely to stop, search and arrest African-American drivers than white ones. The disparity index (the portion of population of stops divided by the proportion of population for a given race) for blacks in Ferguson was _________ while the disparity index for whites was 0.38.

1.37

1.94

0.51

1.02

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QUESTION 14

From Unit #2 readings in our Annual Editions text: Americans of Polish ancestry are evenly distributed throughout the United States general population.

True

False

4 points   

QUESTION 15

While generally discredited for his advocation about the applied benefits of communism, this influential theorist gave us important background from his observations from the Industrial Revolution about characteristics of the elite, ownership class and the working classes. He was particularly focusing in his work on the "means of production," or the ways in which society produces goods and services. His work has been expanded and revised often throughout the last century.

Karl Marx

Max Weber

Emile Durkheim

Gerhard Lenski

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QUESTION 16

This refers to the pattern of unequal treatment based on group membership that is built into the daily operations of a society, whether or not it is consciously intended.

stereotypes

institutional discrimination

ideological racism

prejudice

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QUESTION 17

Which of the following are characteristics of a minority group?

Members of the group experience a pattern of disadvantage or inequality.

Members of the group share a visible trait or characteristic that differentiates them from other groups.

Membership in this group is usually determined at birth.

All of the above.

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QUESTION 18

In the United States, minority group status has been and continues to be one of the most important determinants of life chances, health, wealth, and success.

True

False

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QUESTION 19

_______________ are generalizations that are thought to apply to group members without any factual basis.

Discrimination

Apartheid

Stereotypes

Social Justice

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QUESTION 20

___________________ is the unequal treatment of a person or persons based on group membership.

Discrimination

Prejudice

Stereotyping

Social Construction

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QUESTION 21

From one of our Unit #1 readings in our Annual Editions text: African born Catholics have a/the ________________ rate of church attendance than that of American born Catholics. However, many have a very limited role within the Church. The author extols the African born Catholics to try to work harder at becoming an integral part of the Church.

lower

higher

same

None of the possible answers.

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QUESTION 22

This movement swept over Northern and Western Europe, and then in the 19th century into Southern and Eastern Europe replacing people and animal power with machines and new forms of energy causing an exponential increase in the productive capacity of society. The human population of these areas shifted from rural areas to more fast-paced, growing urban areas.

Civil Wars

Subsistance Farming

None of these possible answers.

Industrial Revolution

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QUESTION 23

Because of the group is less valued by society, this term is also used synonomously with "minority group." The term essentially means the same:

core group

subordinante group

None of these possible choices.

Dominant group

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QUESTION 24

_____________ is a process in which distinct and separate groups come to share a common culture and merge together socially.

Functionalism

Assimilation

Socialism

Pluralism

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QUESTION 25

________________________ exists when groups maintain their individual identities. Groups remain separate and their cultural and social differences persist over time.

Pluralism

Assimilation

Traditionalism

Race relations cycle

Oligarchy

Plutocracy

Matriarchy

Patriarchy

Explanation / Answer

1)According to the chapter 1 of Healey's book, economics and the movement of jobs and opportunity from place to place is the key understanding contemporary immigration. This statement is True

2) Patriarchy

3) Mccaran Walter Act of 1952

4) True

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