Exam 1//october 5,2015

Question 1

Who are sociologists?

Answer 1

Sociologists are interested in groups and patterns of behavior

Question 2

What group is a not a racial category?

Answer 2

Hispanics

Question 3

What is first generation?

Answer 3

Foreign born individual

Question 4

What is second generation?

Answer 4

Native born individual with foreign born parent

Question 5

What is third generation?

Answer 5

Native born individual with native born parents and foreign born grandparents?

Question 6

What % of Asian Americans are foreign born or have 1 foreign born parent?

Answer 6

Almost ALL(almost 100%)

Question 7

What percent of Asian Americans are foreign born?

Answer 7

Almost 70%

Question 8

What percent of Hispanics are foreign born?

Answer 8

About 40%

Question 9

What percent of black non-Hispanics are foreign born?

Answer 9

Less than 8%

Question 10

What percent of white non-Hispanics are foreign born?

Answer 10

Less than 4%

Question 11

Socioeconomic status(SES) is defined by what four factors?

Answer 11

• education
• occupational prestige
• income
• wealth

Question 12

What is the racial and ethnic composition of US population in 2010?

Answer 12

65% white
17%hispanic
13% black
5%Asian

Question 13

What is Armand Leroi’s argument?

Answer 13

Argues physical variation and ideas of race are correlated -race linked to biology is an old idea but argued it may be re-emerging

Question 14

What is Sean Thomas’s argument?

Answer 14

Try to build a race-blind society though people believe race has no real objective reality

Question 15

What is sociology?

Answer 15

Sociology is the study of societies and groups of people

Question 16

What is Goodman’s argument?

Answer 16

The question is not if race is real but in what ways do we make it reality

Question 17

What is the significance of the 2000 census?

Answer 17

Allows you to check more than one(1) race or identity

Question 18

What is Goodman’s argument?

Answer 18

The question is not if race is real but in what ways do we make it reality

Question 19

What is the significance of the 2000 census?

Answer 19

Allows you to check more than one(1) race or identity

Question 20

What is Morning’s argument?

Answer 20

While human biological variation is real. The ways we define or name it are the product of scientific imagination and easily lead to assumption there is an innate hierarchy

Question 21

What is the melting pot idea?

Answer 21

Suggests a blending of cultures but essentially one of “anglo-conformity”

Hirschman

Question 22

What are the 4 steps to assimilation in Park’s paradigm?

Answer 22

Contact
Competition/conflict
Accommodation
Assimilation

CCCAA

Question 23

What are the factors of assimilation?

Answer 23

SES attainment
Segregation
Intermarriage
Attitudes

Question 24

What is the 1936 Tydings-McDuffie Act?

Answer 24

Granted the Phillipines independence and halted Filipino migration to US

Question 25

What is segmented assimilation?

Answer 25

Assimilation that might not always lead to upward mobility(downward instead)

Question 26

What is the Hart-Cellar Act(1965?

Answer 26

Eliminated quotas for Asians, reopened borders to non-white immigrants

Question 27

What is Winant’s argument?

Answer 27

More historical approach- deeper understanding of Macro-micro link

Question 28

What is the difference between 1790 and 1795 immigration laws?

Answer 28

2 year residency req. for naturalization vs 3 years req.

Question 29

What is the 1875 immigration law?

Answer 29

No “obnoxious persons” (destitute,engaged in immoral activities, handicaps, prostitues, convicts)

Question 30

What is the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act?

Answer 30

First act to limit immigration in reference to national origin
•Chinese already in us can’t return if he leaves
•barred us citizenship

Question 31

What is 1892 immigration law?

Answer 31

Creation of office of immigration (precursor to INS)

Question 32

What is 1903 immigration law?

Answer 32

Excluded polygamists and political radicals

Question 33

What is 1907-8 Gentleman’s Agreement?

Answer 33

• ends Japanese immigration
• signed in us in 1907
• signed by Japan govt in 1908

Question 34

What is 1913 Alien Act?

Answer 34

Makes illegal for non-US citizens and all aliens ineligible to own land(targeted at jap and Chinese)

Question 35

What is immigration act of 1917?(Asiatic Barred Zone Act)

Answer 35

Ended immigration for all asians(except Chinese jap and Filipino) and “undesirables”

Chinese and jap already excluded

Question 36

What is the 1921 Quota Act?

Answer 36

Allows 3% of 1910 census to be foreign born population in the current population

Maintains existing racial composition of US

Question 37

What is 1924 Quota Act?

Answer 37

2% of foreign born population allowed currently by 1890 census standards

Question 38

What is the Bracero Treaty?(1942)

Answer 38

Brought workers from Mexico until 1964 to work temporarily

Question 39

What year was the Chinese Exclusion Act repealed?

Answer 39

1943

Question 40

What year was the first policy for admitting refugees instated?

Answer 40

1948

Question 41

What was the 1952 McCartan-Walter Act?

Answer 41

Reaffirmed national origins quota system and established preference for skilled workers and relatives

Question 42

What was the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act?

Answer 42

IRCA goal to decrease number of “illegals” or undocumented immigrants, new special immigrant category

Question 43

What was 1990 Immigration Act?

Answer 43

Created seperate admission categories for family-sponsored,employment-based and diversity immigrants

Question 44

What year to Immigration & Naturalization Services(INS) changed to US Citizenship and Immigration Services(USCIS)?

Answer 44

March 1,2003 in response to 9/11

Question 45

What is a citizen?

Answer 45

Person born in us
Acquired by parents
Naturalized

Question 46

What is a Legalized Permanent Resident?

Answer 46

Green Card Holder or

“resident alien” card holder