Exam 11: Race and Ethnicity

Why do sociologists consider the "scientific" racial types of Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negroid to be misleading and even harmful?

When the first Europeans arrived in the Americas in the fifteenth century, Native Americans

White ethnics are non-WASPs of European ancestry.

Among Asian Americans, more than half of all men and women over the age of twenty-five have completed four years of college.

In which of the following clusters of states do we find the least racial and ethnic diversity?

Theodor Adorno linked extreme prejudice to a certain personality type.

The largest Hispanic minority, in terms of population, is Cuban Americans.

Which category of Asian Americans has an average income above the national average?

Research with the social distance scale among U.S.college students shows increasing social acceptance of people of various racial and ethnic categories over time.

A family leaves Russia and takes up residence in the United States, where they gradually lose Russian cultural traditions.Doing so, these people have modified their

Ethnicity is harder to change than racial identity.

Culture theory states that prejudice remains widespread despite the fact that our culture defines any and all prejudice as wrong.

What is racism? Provide examples of racism in history.

Owning and operating gambling casinos have enabled the typical Native American in the United States to achieve well above-average income.

How are race and ethnicity dimensions of social stratification in the United States? Provide evidence that many racial and ethnic categories of people are minorities-socially disadvantaged due to race or ethnicity.Consider ways in which race and ethnicity combine with gender and class.

Japanese immigrants differed from earlier Chinese immigrants by

You would be expressing a "stereotype" if you

WASPs have been the dominant category of the U.S.population through most of this nation's history.

People of Chinese ancestry were the first Asian Americans to come to the United States and they remain the largest in terms of population.

Sociologically speaking, a minority is any category that is numerically less than half of a society's population.