Exam 2: Assimilation and Pluralism: From Immigrants to White Ethnics

The Pennsylvania Dutch, or the ______, a religious community, are a culturally pluralistic group.

Ethnic succession can be observed in the institution of sports. Sports have been appealing to young men in minority groups who have few other resources or opportunities.

The economic success of enclave and middleman minorities is partly due to ______.

Which of the following best illustrates an enclave minority?

According to Milton Gordon, marital assimilation is evidence of the completion of assimilation.

Over the past century, American sociologists have been very concerned with assimilation as a result of ______.

Describe the social dimensions that create variations in assimilation experiences through comparing the experiences of two European immigrant groups.

A(n) ______ includes networks of social relationships, groups, organizations, stratification systems, communities, and families.

The phenomenon known as the triple melting pot refers to a pattern of structural assimilation within three religions.

Assimilation is a one-way process, and group members only become more assimilated over time.

In Milton Gordon's theory of assimilation, the most crucial step toward assimilation is from ______.

Which of the following best illustrates a middleman minority?

The visibility of cultural pluralism among racial minority groups has helped make it more acceptable for European Americans to express their own ethnicity and heritage.

Which of the following is the most important factor of success according to the status attainment theory?

Although European Americans did not completely intermarry, there is evidence of patterns of a triple melting pot, with intermarriage occurring within various groups of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews.

Based on Park's race relations cycle, African Americans will ______.

Summarize Gordon's theory of assimilation. Identify each of his first three major stages and explain the relationships among them. Examine the critiques of Gordon presented in the chapter text.

The Black Power, Red Power, Chicanismo, and ethnic revival movements of the 1960s present what challenge to the traditional model of assimilation?

It was ______ who concluded that U.S. society in the 1960s actually incorporated not three but four melting pots, each of which was internally subdivided by social class.