Ethnic Studies 101 Question and answers already passed 2024/2025
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Ethnic Studies 101 Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 Ethnic Studies 101 - Quiz 2
A migrating minority group's compatibility with the social structure of the new land depends on the degree of similarity between the new country's structural conditions and those of its homeland. - corr...
Ethnic Studies 101 - Quiz 2
A migrating minority group's compatibility with the social structure of the new
land depends on the degree of similarity between the new country's structural
conditions and those of its homeland. - correct answer ✔True
A process by which immigrants hold onto some homeland values, adapt
others, and adopt some values of the host country is called - correct answer
✔Ethnogenesis
According to this ethnic stratification theory, inter-group relations depend on
the relative power of the migrant group and the indigenous group. - correct
answer ✔Power differential
Although the members of a dominant culture wish to keep their society
untainted by contact with foreign elements, cultures are inevitably influenced
by other cultures—a phenomenon known as? - correct answer ✔Cultural
Diffusion
Ethnic subcultures that tend toward assimilation with the dominant society are
known as - correct answer ✔Chain subcultures
In convergent subcultures, we tend to see - correct answer ✔All of the above
A. Continued residential clustering
B. Everyday ethnicity in language, dress and cultural behavior
C. A gradual assimilation process
, Most people in the United States who think the poor are responsible for their
own poverty use either cultural or economic deterministic explanations or
rationalizations - correct answer ✔True
Relations between dominant and minority groups are influenced as much by
structural conditions as by differences in culture. - correct answer ✔True
Religious groups such as the Amish, some Hutterites, and Hasidic Jews are
examples of persistent subcultures. - correct answer ✔True
Sociologist Hyman Rodman's belief that all people share the same values of a
society but that the lower class adopt additional more realistic values is known
as the - correct answer ✔Value-stretch approach
Sociologists call a minority group's establishment of its own clubs,
organizations, stores, churches, newspapers and schools - correct answer
✔Parallel social institutions
Students who sit quietly in class and take careful notes are fulfilling societal
rules of conduct also called - correct answer ✔Norms
The culture of poverty refers to - correct answer ✔Cultural traits of the poor
transmitted from one generation to the next, creating a perpetual underclass
The primary transmitter of our culture is - correct answer ✔Language
The Thomas Theorem states that - correct answer ✔If people define a
situation as real, it becomes real in its consequences
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