Final, Part 1
SOC 201A
Study guide
Chapter 10: Ethnicity and Race
Carolus Linnaeus
racialization
prejudice
discrimination
institutional racism
Western colonialism
rise of modern racism
segregation
assimilation
early wave of immigrants to the United States, from the 1820s to the 1880s
new influx of immigrants to the United States in the 1880s and 1890s
immigrants admitted to the United States since 1965
Civil War
progressive movement of African Americans northward starting at the beginning of the 20th century
African Americans
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
1964 Civil Rights Act
Which is now the largest minority group in the United States?
Which Hispanic group is the largest in the United States?
Members of which Latino immigrant group are more likely to be educated and come from white-collar and professional backgrounds?
About what percent of the population of the United States is of Asian origin?
Which group has the lowest high school graduation rate?
Which group of Americans has the highest college graduation rate?
Which group of Americans has the highest median household income?
When comparing the difference in infant mortality rates between the wealthiest white Americans and the poorest African Americans, the infant mortality rates for blacks in the bottom 20 percent of income compared to whites in the top 20 percent was __________ higher.
In 2007, whites on average could expect to live __________ years longer than African Americans.
residential segregation
American Apartheid (1993), Douglas Massey and Nancy A. Denton
As of early 2014, there were __________ black members in the U.S. Senate.
Which category of full-time workers had the lowest weekly earnings in 2012?
a. Latina women c. black men
b. white women d. white men
What fraction of all families headed by African American or Latino women lives in poverty?
Before the 1970s, which groups would Robert Blauner most likely classify as willing immigrants?
William Julius Wilson
Chapter 11: Families and Intimate Relationships
functions of the family discussed by Talcott Parsons
instrumental and affective roles
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, “the problem with no name”
Are more women working in paid employment outside the home than ever before?
changes in marital rape laws
changes in household size throughout the history of the United States
American family in the past
changes that are occurring in the family globally
changes related to the creation of a worldwide movement toward the predominance of the nuclear family and the breaking down of extended-family systems and other types of kinship groups
percent of American adults 65 and older who are or have previously been married
In 2011, the average age at for first marriage for men and women
explanations offered for the trend toward later marriages in the last several decades
Which group has higher median incomes than non-Hispanic whites as well as a strong commitment to family interdependence and family and friend networks that help members financially?
Which group has the highest rate of intermarriage?
When we expand the definition of union to include both marriages and cohabiting unions, about one-quarter of Hispanic women and about 9 percent of white women have experienced a birth outside of a union in 2010. What percentage of black women experienced a birth outside of a union?
comparing black and white families
Katherine Edin and Maria Kefalas
The divorce rate was highest in which year?
children and divorce
relationship between income and postdivorce situations
Explain why divorce rates increased so steeply in the 1960s and 1970s
What factors decreases the likelihood that a person will get a divorce?
Judith Wallerstein and colleagues, children of divorced parents
Andrew Cherlin, divorce and children
gender, prior marital status, and likelihood of getting married
single-parent households
child abuse
most common type of child abuse
1988 study by Richard Gelles and Murray Straus
For young people, how does a cohabiting relationship usually begin?
In research by Bumpass et al., reasons that couples gave for cohabitation
In 2002, percent of women between ages 35 and 39 who had ever cohabited.
trends related to cohabiting
Individuals in which category have the highest probability that their first cohabitation will become a marriage within five years?
a. white women c. black women
b. Hispanic women d. Hispanic men
Which of the following cohabiting unions is most likely to marry?
a. an African American man and woman who both graduated from high school
b. a childless couple in which both are physicians
c. a low-income couple with two children
d. a white man and woman who both dropped out of high school
According to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, number of same-sex families in the United States
Although it is most common for young people to leave home to begin independent lives, in previous generations, young people typically left home for what reason?
being single
The following questions concern lecture material on race and ethnicity
How does the US Census define who is white?
Has who is considered white always remained the same in the United States?
The following question concerns the discussion prompt given in Moodle in the race and ethnicity forum (and in lecture notes for face-to-face class)
B. S. Thind
The following questions concern lecture material on dating and cohabitation
Kathleen Bogle
legality of cohabitation prior to 1970 in all 50 states
young people and cohabiting
Daniel Lichter, cohabitation and divorce