Exam 7: Race and Ethnicity

Explain the reasoning supporting the elimination of race as a biological category.

Sociologists define race as the socially manifested consequences of the genetically determined physical characteristics of a group.

What term is used for the ownership and control of people against their will?

Trace the history of Canada's First Nations people from the time of the first European contact to the present time in order to explain the development of racial and ethnic labels and identities.

In a class discussion on the treatment of Aboriginals by the Canadian government, Jesse described what happened to his grandmother when she was a child. At around the age of 8 years she was forcibly removed from her parents' home and taken to a school over 800 kilometres away. At the school she was forbidden to speak her own language and prevented from seeing her parents. She didn't see her mother for six and a half years. What was the name of this kind of school?

Canada has been identified as one of the most culturally heterogeneous societies in the world. However, the vertical mosaic is predicted to persist into the future. Research any current political platform and provide an argument of whether proposed policies are likely to bring Canada closer to being a pluralist society.

What does Herbert Gans call a nostalgic attitude toward ethnicity?

Which of the following does the textbook define as a disadvantaged person or category of people that others blame for their own problems?

What does the example of Tiger Woods demonstrate about identifying oneself as "black," "white," "Asian," and so forth?

According to the text definition, which of the following terms is used to describe an arbitrary social construct used to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical markers?

Identify the resources of success. Explain how these, along with economic opportunities, determine the success of any ethnic group.

Explain how racial and ethnic identity is shaped and reshaped by the succession of social contexts of which a person is a part.

Briefly outline the changes in Canadian society that led Porter to revise his account of Canada as a vertical mosaic.

Political initiatives, like employment equity programs, speed up which of the following changes in society?

Inexpensive international communication and travel allow ethnic group members to maintain strong ties to their ancestral homeland in a way never before possible. Which of the following has this trend encouraged?

What accounts for the success of immigrant Jews and Koreans in Canada?

Research the two referendums that have been held in Quebec. What reasons have been given for the difference in the results from 1980 and then 1995? What is the level of support for independence in Quebec today? Do these differences tell us anything about the degree of ethnic stratification in Quebec?

The current reduced longevity and high rates of poverty, unemployment, ill health, and violence within Canada's Aboriginal populations are a consequence of which of the following?

In 1759, the British conquered the French in North America. What term do sociologists use for the social consequences that were created and have remained in place by this conquest?

According to the 2011 Canadian census, where do black Canadians rank in terms of their size as a visible minority group?