Social Problems Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth examination of contemporary social problems affecting individuals and communities at local, national, and global levels. Students will explore issues such as poverty, inequality, crime, discrimination, environmental concerns, family challenges, and health disparities, analyzing their origins, impacts, and the various responses by governments and social institutions. Through sociological theories and research, the course encourages critical thinking about the causes of social problems and the effectiveness of proposed solutions, fostering a nuanced understanding of complex societal challenges.
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Racial and Ethnic Relations in America 7th Edition by S.
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Chapter 1: Natives and Newcomers
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Q1) White resistance to the inclusion of groups has been lower for non-White than for Whites.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Americans generally believe that an individual's rewards and place in society should depend heavily on his or her ________ characteristics.
A) ascribed
B) appropriated
C) achieved
D) acknowledged
Answer: A
Q3) When sociologists focus on a group's cultural traits and heritage they are concerned with:
A) race.
B) ethnicity.
C) marital assimilation.
D) secondary assimilation.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Together or Apart Some Competing Views
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Q1) In the Anglo-conformity model,cultural assimilation occurs by:
A) addition.
B) substitution.
C) subtraction.
D) multiplication.
Answer: B
Q2) Pluralists believe that no one can become 100 percent American.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The authors argued that according to the Anglo-conformity model,the very meaning of the word "American" had become:
A) substituted.
B) diversified.
C) anglicized.
D) Africanized.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Anglo American Society
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Q1) The best way to describe Scotch-Irish assimilation after three generations is:
A) underway, but not complete.
B) neither underway nor complete.
C) complete.
D) not even started.
Answer: A
Q2) Black and White slaves had the same odds of successfully escaping slavery.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Virginia's unexpected source of wealth became:
A) gold.
B) silver.
C) meat.
D) tobacco.
Answer: D
Q4) The Germans abandoned their old home ways once in America.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Golden Door
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Q1) In the 1840s a virulent form of potato rot struck the Irish potato farmers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Many Americans viewed the Irish as being:
A) apelike.
B) wise.
C) hard working.
D) trustworthy.
Q3) What did the Germans do or fail to do that led the natives to see them as being collectively threatening to themselves and their country?
Q4) Briefly describe the history and influence of the National-Origins Principle,how it came to rise and later fall.What replaced it and why is it better or worse?
Q5) The Irish threatened the natives in America with their Roman Catholicism and activity in politics.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Most Irish women were laborers on canals or roads.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Nativism and Racism
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Q1) By WWII most scholarly types felt that only heredity affected intelligence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Authoritarianism is highly related to prejudice.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The lines between physical racial boundaries are:
A) NOT clear cut.
B) clear cut.
C) scientifically established.
D) politically based.
Q4) Taking out your frustration on an easy safe target is called:
A) violence.
B) scapegoating.
C) bull dogging.
D) social misalignment.
Q5) The vicious circle often leads to the self-fulfilling prophecy.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe five core flaws with The Bell Curve's argument
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Chapter 6: African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation
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Q1) Prosser,Vesey,and Turner were all hanged for slave uprisings.
A)True
B)False
Q2) It was during the 1650-1700 period when changes in the production of ________ led to the acceptance of Black slavery as the solution to the labor problem.
A) sugar cane
B) corn
C) cotton
D) tobacco
Q3) White and Black Union troops were paid the same wage from the outset.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Lost Nation of Islam was a separationist movement.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Jim Crow laws were legislated at all of the following levels,except:
A) state.
B) federal.
C) city.
D) county.
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Chapter 7: African Americans: Protest and Social Change
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Q1) Which U.S.Supreme Court Case placed the burden of proof on employers with Affirmative Action?
A) Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
B) Regents of U. of California v. Bakke
C) Grutter v. Bollinger
D) Gratz v. Bollinger
Q2) Black-White intermarriages have been ________ in recent decades.
A) declining
B) increasing
C) remaining stable
D) leading to unprecedented levels of divorces
Q3) Hochschild attributed the continued elusive racial bias that African Americans face in the United States to:
A) "the legacy of Jim Crow."
B) "the legacy of slavery."
C) "the permanence of racism."
D) "the hidden racist agenda."
Q4) Describe the major riots discussed in Chapter 7.What types of damage did they do What types of progress did they help to achieve?
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Chapter 8: Mexican Americans: From Colonized Minority to Political Activists
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Q1) The authors argue that the best approach to the Mexican American experience is the:
A) anti-assimilationist framework.
B) melting pot framework.
C) Parks model approach.
D) three generation hypothesis.
Q2) The groups most threatening to the dominant group members of the United States in the second stream were the:
A) Europeans.
B) Asians.
C) Mexicans.
D) Africans.
Q3) After World War II,Mexican Americans moved back to rural homes in America.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Alvarez (1985) argues that the boundary between the United States and Mexico is:
A) the wall of shame.
B) politically neutral.
C) politically arbitrary.
D) the river of doom.
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Chapter 9: Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans: Identity and Incorporation
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Q1) Briefly summarize the bilingual education debate including key arguments for and against and key principles of success from the assimilationistic and pluralistic perspectives.
Q2) The bilingual education debate is framed by Anglo conformity and ________ ideologies.
A) discrimination
B) cultural pluralist
C) anti-assimilationist
D) conflict
Q3) Cultural pluralist would encourage children to learn:
A) English only.
B) Spanish only.
C) two languages.
D) More than one language in bilingual programs.
Q4) According to Gordon's theory,Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans are assimilating by substitution.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Describe some of the unique hardships faced by Mexican Americans and by Puerto Ricans.
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Chapter 10: Native Americans: the First Americans
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Q1) Briefly list and describe each of the Indian Civil Rights organizations and those organizations which have either helped or hindered them.
Q2) Describe five major negative consequences to Indians of the Termination Act.Were these negative consequences ever reversed?
Q3) The takeover of Alcatraz Island failed at every level.
A)True
B)False
Q4) President Richard Nixon argued for Indian self-determination.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In the beginning,the BIA established two types of schools,day schools and: A) night schools.
B) boarding schools.
C) reservation clubs.
D) off-reservation clubs.
Q6) Describe the similarities and differences in Mexican American and Native American formal relations with the U.S.government.
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Chapter 11: The Japanese Experience
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Q1) As one might expect,assimilation was highest among the Sansei.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Make the argument that the model minority stereotype is hurtful to all Americans,and especially to Asians and Japanese Americans.Focus on the destructive nature of prejudice and stereotypes in race relations.
Q3) Kenjin were Japanese provinces.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare and contrast the middle-man minority and ethnic-enclave theories in explaining the Japanese American experience.Which do you prefer and why?
Q5) Who ordered the removal of Japanese Americans to camps?
A) General DeWitt
B) General Eisenhower
C) President Roosevelt
D) the U.S. Supreme Court
Q6) Levine and Rhodes (1981) found that Nisei are not very neighborly folks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Chinese, Asian Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, and Middle Eastern Arab Americans
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Q1) The rich family tradition,compadrinazgo,was ________ by early Filipino immigrants.
A) ignored
B) not reproduced
C) reproduced exactly
D) supported by U.S. mainstream culture
Q2) For each Asian group,explain the economic,cultural,and political factors that contributed to these groups assimilating more by addition than by substitution.
Q3) Most Korean immigrants are fluent in English speaking and reading.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Approximately ________ of Filipinos are professionals or managers.
A) 10 percent
B) 18 percent
C) 39 percent
D) 68 percent
Q5) Draw a line graph of numbers of immigrants from each of the Asian regions.Place key legal and global events on peaks and valleys in the graph.Explain the impact from the INAA.
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Chapter 13: Vietnamese Americans, Arab Americans, and Resurgent Racism
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Q1) The Vietnamese appear to be ________ a sequence of adaptation to the American setting that would produce results resembling those found among other Asian immigrant groups.
A) ignorant of B) purposefully avoiding C) following D) distracted by
Q2) All of the following describe the Arab world except:
A) Islam.
B) common dialects.
C) common language.
D) heterogeneous.
Q3) Vietnamese Americans score lower than average Americans on all of the following secondary structural assimilation measures except:
A) education.
B) jobs.
C) incomes.
D) residential segregation scores.
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Chapter 14: The Future of Ethnicity
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Q1) How is being White associated with either privilege or the lack thereof Use specific examples to support your claim.
Q2) The immigrant model ________ deny the validity of the colonial model in some instances.
A) doesn't
B) does
C) tries to
D) tries not to
Q3) Contrast and compare the colonization experiences of Mexican,Puerto Rican,and Native American groups and how their circumstances at the time of colonization varied from one another.
Q4) When subordinate group members try to find mutually satisfactory ways to bring dominant and subordinate groups together it is referred to as a:
A) pluralized relationship to dominant.
B) colonized relationship to dominant.
C) centrifugal relationship to dominant.
D) centripetal relationship to dominant.
Q5) Briefly summarize the alternate view,contrasting it to immigrant and colonial views.
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