Question 1

The showcard methodology in the 1992-1994 Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality found that whites were most comfortable living near which minority group?

Accepted Answer

A)  Blacks 
B)  Hispanics 
C)  Asians 
D)  Native Americans

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT one of the proxy variables used in the Houston Area Survey study?

Accepted Answer

A)  School quality 
B)  Crime level 
C)  Urban/rural location 
D)  Housing values

Question 3

Bullard analyzes the impact that a lack of public transportation had on the evacuation of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Choose another city and discuss the infrastructure of public transportation. How extensive is the public transportation? Who has access to it and who does not? How well equipped is the system to handle a hypothetical natural disaster?

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Question 4

How are the War on Drugs and mass incarceration related? How do these square with the American ideals of equality and freedom?

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Question 5

How has the history of the U.S. shaped current residential segregation patterns?

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Question 6

Explain why income is an insufficient measure of family resources when investigating racial and class inequality in the U.S. What alternative measures better capture these inequalities and why?

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Question 7

Which of the following does NOT describe how academic achievement is defined among immigrant-origin Asians in Cupertino?

Accepted Answer

A)  College attendance is an expectation. 
B)  What kind of college a student attends matters. 
C)  A high school degree is the primary goal, and college attendance is a marker of great success. 
D)  Involvement in college preparation activities during high school is an expectation.

Question 8

George Herbert Mead's idea that human knowledge develops mainly within the settings of human interaction is called the

Accepted Answer

A)  Sociological imagination 
B)  Sociological eye 
C)  Social mind 
D)  Social structure

Question 9

Which category represents the majority of exclusionary discrimination cases in the study by Roscigno, Karafin, and Tester?

Accepted Answer

A)  Advertising 
B)  Terms and conditions 
C)  Outright exclusion 
D)  None of the above

Exam 3: Today: Remaking Race and Ethnicity