Exam 7: Race and Ethnicity

Explain, with examples, how race and ethnic cultural differences are insufficient explanations of why racial and ethnic groups do (or do not) become economically successful.

Explain how the experience of the Québécois in Canada is an example of internal colonialism.

Which of the following prevents assimilation by segregating the colonized from the colonizers in terms of jobs, housing, and social contacts?

"Where low-wage workers of one race and high-wage workers of another compete for the same jobs, high-wage workers are likely to resent the presence of the low-wage competitors. Conflict is bound to result, and racist attitudes develop or get reinforced." This is the basic argument of which theory?

Outline the several steps in John Lie's experiences as an ethnic outsider starting in Korea and eventually ending up in North America.

What term is used for the forcible removal of a population from a territory claimed by another population?

Political initiatives, like employment equity programs and government-subsidized job training and childcare, could decrease the "verticality" of the Canadian mosaic.

Jillian walks into the cafeteria as her friend Peter is telling a racist joke. What does Peter's behaviour illustrate?

Outline the factors that have prompted the creation of transnational communities.

Sociologists define race as socially significant physical characteristics that shape behaviour patterns.

Amanda asked her sociology professor for some help getting started on a paper she had to write. Her topic was toleration. Her professor told her about a recent survey of rich countries measuring toleration. There was only one country in which a strong majority of the population had a positive view of immigrants. Which country was that?

The Canadian government instituted a policy of forcibly placing Aboriginal children in residential schools. Which of the following terms best describes the effects this had on Aboriginal cultures?

Andy is assigned an exercise in his sociology class whereby he records the ethnic backgrounds of his five closest friends and then asks his parents and grandparents to do the same. He discovers that not one of them lists a single non-white friend. According to the textbook, what can this likely be attributed to?

Around the early 1900s, Sicilians living in Canada started thinking of themselves as Italian Canadians rather than as people from a particular town or area in Italy. What was the reason for this shift in thinking and self-identification?

Which of the following is the main difference between race and ethnicity?

During their early years of immigration to Canada, resentment was directed at Asians, who provided cheap labour in the booming economy of Canada's West-particularly in British Columbia. To what has this resentment and resulting conflict been attributed?

René and Jacques were discussing their grandparents experience growing up in Quebec City in the Great Depression. Both of their grandparents remembered very clearly that all the men who worked with them on the docks were French-speaking, and how they came to resent that, even though all the work was done in French, their bosses never bothered to learn to speak French. What do sociologists call this phenomenon?

In the 1920s, Professor Sandiford administered IQ tests. What recommendation did he make based on his results?

Which of the following Canadians is most likely to be able to enjoy symbolic ethnicity?

Use the example of the Afro-Canadian experience of slavery in past centuries as an explanation of the this form of internal colonialism