Exam 14: Race and Ethnicity

Of all categories of Asian Americans, Japanese Americans have the highest average income.

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.

Which of the following is the largest minority category within the U.S.population?

Japanese immigrants differed from earlier Chinese immigrants by

Pluralism is the idea that all people should live with their own kind.

Race refers to _____ considered important by a society; ethnicity refers to _____.

Write an essay critically evaluating affirmative action as a social policy.Begin with a look at the Sociology in Focus box

Being Greek, Italian, or Vietnamese involves a distinct ethnicity.

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

For Chinese immigrants, one consequence of living in Chinatowns was _____.

A national civil rights movement, which ended most instances of lawful discrimination, took place during

Which of the following categories of the U.S.population is most likely to own and operate a small business?

Segregation refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people.

The United States is not truly pluralistic because

The ancestors of which of the following first settled in the Western Hemisphere?

Prejudice and discrimination are found in not just individuals, but in the operation of society's institutions.

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

Which of the following concepts refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people?

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

In the United States, minorities typically have less