Exam 2: Explaining Ethnic Relations

Ecological theories emphasize

The identifiability of an ethnic subpopulation is always based on biological features.

Discuss the varying types of assimilation that can occur.

Middleman minority theories concentrate on business activities of the dominant ethnic subpopulation.

Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan argue that all white ethnic groups are assimilated to the middle-class, Anglo-Saxon Protestant core.

Which force is the most important in driving prejudice and discrimination?

Subordinate ethnic subpopulations are likely to find themselves at the bottom of the stratification system if they are large.

Unlike ethnics of "color," all white ethnics are fully integrated into the Anglo-Saxon mainstream.

What are the key ideas behind the new biological theories?

Which is not a type of assimilation discussed by Milton Gordon

Even though some white ethnic subpopulations have maintained elements of their ethnicity (holidays, festivities, religions), why don't these elements distinguish white ethnic subpopulations in a highly visible way?

From Pierre van den Berghe's sociobiological perspective, the tendency of humans to form an "ethny" is ultimately created by

Which of the following is not an assumption in biological theories?

From the internal colonization perspective, the history of ethnic relations in America has resulted in internal colonies of nonwhites being dominated by descendants of the original Anglo-Saxon Protestant core.

The basic argument of sociobiology is that the unit of natural selection is the __________ rather than the individual.

From a sociobiological point of view, the individual is a permanent vessel for genes.

__________ theories focus on the mobilization of power to control where in the class system ethnic groups are placed.

Ecological and sociobiological theories of ethnicity are virtually the same, with only minor points of divergence.

Which of the following do ecological theories not emphasize?

Is it possible for a person to assimilate to the culture of a host society but not be incorporated into the host society's major institutions?