Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is race?
What is ethnicity?
What is racial ethnicity?
What is endogamy?
What is exogamy?
What is a minority group?
What is familism?
What are health disparities?
What is acculturation?
What is assimilation?
What is intermarriage?
What is social distance?
How are race and ethnicity different from each other?
How has the U.S government changed how it measures race? Why are these changes important to sociologists?
How have the racial and ethnic populations shifted in the twentieth century?
Describe three disruptions in Native American family life that have occured in the last century.
According to historians and sociologists what are some of the legacies of slavery and the southern agricultural economy that have shaped African American families?
How have extended households eased the burdens of racial inequality for Black families?
What is familism and how does it play a role in Latino family life?
Describe at least one source of conflict between parents and children in immigrant families.
How did the immigration reforms of 1965 affect families?
What are some of the factors behind the growing intermarriage rate in the U.S?
