Exam 10: Minority Groups and Us Society: Themes, Patterns, and the Future

______ was a sociologist who argued for the importance of understanding the relationship between stratification and a society's subsistence technology.

Current public opinion on matters of race and discrimination makes the creation of programs to address inequality unlikely.

Imagine that a new minority group, one with no ethnic or racial ties to any groups discussed in the chapter text, is entering U.S. society. What factors would you expect to be especially important in shaping the contact period? Why? What advice would you give to this group? What pathways into U.S. society or strategies for adaptation would you recommend? Of all the groups we have discussed in this course, which one would you recommend as a model to a new minority group? Why?

The United States can be best described as a melting pot--people of different cultures coming together to create a unique society.

Which theorist would argue that racial inequality will inevitably be resolved?

Which of the following groups is most likely to be limited in its political potential by its small group size?

African Americans best represent the idea of an ethnic enclave.

It seems highly likely that, at least for the near future, a substantial percentage of racial and colonized minority groups and some recent immigrant groups will be participating in the mainstream economy at lower levels than will the dominant group and the more advantaged recent immigrant groups. This outcome would be consistent with ______.

The chapter text argues that the most serious problems facing contemporary minority groups are ______.

______ hypothesis states that if ethnocentrism, competition, and a differential in power are present in the contact situation, ethnic or racial stratification will result.

Modern racism maintains structural inequalities by ______.

Immigration typically flows from the Global South to the Global North due to ______.

Key to modern racism and sexism is the belief that ______.

"The mostly Anglo industrialized nations of the Northern Hemisphere have continuously exploited the labor and resources of the mostly non-White, undeveloped nations of the Southern Hemisphere." This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

What major modes of assimilation into American society have been followed by minority groups? Which of these different modes are associated with higher levels of success and affluence in the United States? Which are associated with lower levels of success and affluence? Why?

Negative intergroup feelings have largely disappeared as society has become more diverse.

Consistent with Noel's hypothesis, which factor today illustrates the differential power of minority groups?

There is no "contact situation" for women and men or people of different sexual orientations.

Ethnocentrism can lead to misunderstanding and conflict through the belief that one's culture is superior to another's.

The strong racial and ethnic sentiments and stereotypes of the past remain the primary drivers when discussing race relations among dominant group members, even in public.