Exam 4: Industrialization and Dominantminority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial Society

Industrial jobs are moved from the United States to other nations because wages in other nations are considerably lower.

Social change can be attributed to changes in subsistence technology, not Black activism.

The term de jure means that the system is sanctioned and reinforced by the legal code.

In South Africa, the structure of minority group control became stronger and more oppressive because the Whites in South Africa were a numerical minority.

Because they stress ______, bureaucracies can counteract the more blatant forms of discrimination and increase the opportunities available to minority group members.

African Americans' creation of separate institutions and cultural practices due to their exclusion from the mainstream supports which of the following critiques of the traditional model of assimilation?

______ was a primary opponent of Booker T. Washington and is argued by many to be the father of American sociology.

Fluid competitive systems still present barriers to competition for minority groups through formal laws.

Assembly line jobs that transform various materials into finished automobiles are an example of jobs in the ______ sector.

The purpose of affirmative action policies is to ______.

During the height of the Jim Crow era, it was against the law for Blacks and Whites to play each other in checkers and dominoes in Birmingham, Alabama.

The stimulation of occupational specialization due to industrialization ______.

The Plessy v. Ferguson decision legally mandated White privilege.

Which of the following best describes the practice of sharecropping?

Since segregation began, African American women have had consistently higher unemployment rates and lower incomes than African American men and White women. Which theory best explains these conditions?

As the United States industrialized and modernized, group relations evolved from paternalism during slavery to a looser, more rigid competitive form of relations during segregation. In South Africa, the structure of minority group control became stronger and more oppressive as the nation industrialized and modernized. What explains the difference in group relations in these two countries?

As societies industrialize, dominant-minority relations move from ______.

In ______, the Supreme Court established the "separate but equal" doctrine.

Vagrancy laws functioned to criminalize Black people for not actively working.

______ was born in Jamaica and advocated the return of Black Americans to Africa.