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ASAM 240 Exam Questions with Correct AnswersMaking up meaning or categories to define the social world and building
rules based off these meanings and categories. Correct Answer ✓✓
social construction of reality
race Correct Answer ✓✓ Physical indicators of belonging to a certain
group; social construction; imposed, not voluntarily entered
Ethnicity Correct Answer ✓✓ Voluntarily entered; based on a real or
imagined shared ancestry
Social constructionist perspective Correct Answer ✓✓ To better
understand our world, we take social constructions like race and reify
them through language and institutions
Susie G. Phipps Correct Answer ✓✓ Unsuccessfully sued the Louisiana
Bureau of Vital Records to change her race from black to white
Asserted/Assigned identity Correct Answer ✓✓ The attempt to maintain
or change racial identity. E.g. Mississippi Chinese wanting to be seen as
higher than AAs
Thick and Thin Identities Correct Answer ✓✓ Thick: organizes a great
deal of social life and both individual and collective action
Thin: organizes relatively little social life and collective action
, First wave of immigration in the US Correct Answer ✓✓ 17th-19th c;
Northwest Europeans; small number of Chinese
Second wave of immigration in the US Correct Answer ✓✓ 19th-early
20th c; southern and eastern Europeans; small number of Japanese,
Koreans, Philippines, and Indians
Third wave of immigration in the US Correct Answer ✓✓ 20th-present;
Latin Americans and Asians
Chinese Immigration Correct Answer ✓✓ The First Opium War
resulted in the opening of ports.
Hawaii: sugar industry and merchants; laborers (post 1875)
Mainland: merchants>miners>railroad>agriculture, restaurant workers,
laundrymat owners
Yellow Peril Correct Answer ✓✓ Western term for perceived threat of
Japanese imperialism around 1900; met by increased Western
imperialism in region
Japanese Immigration Correct Answer ✓✓ Later 1800s: contract
laborers in HI; students and farm laborers come to the mainland
Early 1900s: Gentleman's Agreement Act ends Japanese labor
immigrants
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