Exam 1: Natives and Newcomers

Kazal claimed that the process of construction or invention which incorporates,adapts,and amplifies preexisting communal solidarities,cultural attributes and historical memories is crucial to ethnicity.

The popular view assumes that assimilation occurs in three generations.

Straight-line theory is very controversial among scholars.

A number of factors affect the rate at which members of a given group are included within American society.List those factors then apply them to Irish immigrants of 1840s and African immigrants of 2000.

Describe the U.S.majority group and the difficulties non-Whites have had in being included in this group.

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

Which group is more likely to follow the three generations process?

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:

Hansen found that grandchildren of immigrants experienced a revival of interest in the culture of the old country of their grandparents.

Many newcomers to the United States resisted assimilation.

Why is it becoming more and more difficult to formally and informally classify people by race?

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

The three generations description applied to which of the following?

The authors focus on Kennedy's work throughout the entire text and basically ignore Gordon's work.

Americans generally believe that an individual's rewards and place in society should depend heavily on his or her ________ characteristics.

If you think of yourself as belonging to a group of "we" rather than "they," then you are referring to your:

The United States is often described as a nation of nations.

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

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

Whites have been the largest and most powerful group throughout U.S.history.