Exam 1: Natives and Newcomers

People tend to assume that groups based on physical and social inheritance are natural and of special importance.

The boundaries between and within racial and ethnic groups are:

Robert E.Park's theory called the cycle of race relations had four processes or stages.All of the following belong to those stages,except:

All of the following factors affect assimilation except:

If you are born in the United States,your parents were born in the United States,and your grandparents immigrated to the United States,then you are considered:

White resistance to the inclusion of groups has been lower for non-White than for Whites.

________ is the concentration of a group of people within a particular area primarily because they wish to be together.

Americanization is in effect the opposite of assimilation.

To analyze U.S.race and ethnic relations,we must recognize the social reality of the racial and ethnic categories that exist in society.

For the most part,many in America believe that there is one single course to assimilation. Today,this notion:

Ethnogenesis is argued to involve ________ negotiation among various racial and ethnic groups and the dominant group.

Your race,sex,ethnicity,family status,and age are all ________ characteristics.

When sociologists focus on a group's cultural traits and heritage they are concerned with:

The most powerful group in a society is called the ________ group.

The authors argue that there is really only one uniform process leading to Americanization.

America's cultural and racial diversity has decreased appreciably in the last decade.

Ethnic identities combined with networks with co-ethnics of the same social class form a subsociety called:

Gordon denied the influence of subsocieties in assimilation.

Recent immigration patterns to the United States have taken on a transnational character.

Which group can claim to have been in America for more than five centuries?