Final, Part 1 Study guide

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