Exam 3: Today: Remaking Race and Ethnicity

Describe the primary findings of Van Ausdale and Feagin's research on children's development of racial and ethnic concepts. What cognitive development theories do they critique, and why? Which theories do they utilize in their analysis?

Describe the main findings in the Houston Area Survey study on neighborhood preferences by Lewis, Emerson, and Klineberg. What are the implications of this research?

Think of an example of how assimilation is depicted in popular culture in the U.S. and describe it. Can you also think of an example that depicts an alternative view of assimilation?

Describe the macro sociological reasons and the social psychological reasons that there is a high personal cost to attending racially diverse religious congregations.

Measurements of the likelihood of having persons of another race in one's neighborhood are called

For blacks, preference for integrated neighborhoods follows which pattern?

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why race relations in the U.S. are moving to a tri-racial stratification system, according to Bonilla-Silva?

Which of the following terms describes the decline of an ethnic distinction and its corollary cultural and social differences, as defined by Alba and Nee?

Approximately what percentage of African Americans has a close friend or relative who is currently incarcerated?

According to the National Congregations Survey, about nine out of every ten American religious congregations are comprised of at least what percent of one racial group?

Explain how residential and educational racial segregation are interrelated and discuss the implications of these forms of segregation.

Describe why it is important to talk about race when analyzing the mass incarceration system in the U.S. In your answer discuss what the term "racialized mass incarceration" means and what the consequences of this are.

Explain what the Asian model minority stereotype is. In your answer include how this stereotype evolved and what the implications of it are.

Describe how Jiménez and Horowitz's research on academic achievement and ethnoracial identity is influenced by assimilation theories focusing on the influence of immigrant-origin populations on established individuals and institutions.

Discuss the connections between racial residential segregation, mass incarceration, and the War on Drugs.

Which demographic group experiences the most housing discrimination in the study by Roscigno, Karafin, and Tester?

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses in the methodology used in Christerson and Emerson's research on diverse churches.

Which trend describes the historical trajectory of where immigrants generally settle in the U.S.?

Social scientists offer various explanations of the process of assimilation. Describe the differences between these approaches and explain which explanation you find most compelling. Why?

How would you answer the example vignettes from the Houston Area Survey study? What do you think shapes your answer?