Mixed-Race Couples 11

Question 1

Do spouses tend to marry others with similar educational levels or not, whether they are marrying within or outside their group?

Answer 1

Spouses tend to marry others with similar educational levels, whether they are marrying within or outside their group. Thus, educational homogamy is more consistent with these findings than is the exchange thesis. (Kalmijn 1998)

Question 2

Analysis shows that relationships are more likely to be interracial the more _______ they were formed?

Answer 2

recently, suggesting that the age decline may instead reflect the increaseing acceptance of interracial relationships. (Joyner & Kao 2005)

Question 3

What are 4 places where mixed-race encounters may occur? And out of these 4, which one is decreasing in importance.

Answer 3

Residential neighborhoods, workplaces, educational settings, and cyberspace. Residential neighborhoods (Houston et al. 2005)

Question 4

Blacks are more likely to marry or cohabit with which group compared to which group?

Answer 4

Nonnative blacks compared to whites (Batson, Qian, & Lichter 2006)

Question 5

Those who intermarry by race tend to have ______ _____ __ __________, and there is a modest _______ relationship between racial and educational heterogamy.

Answer 5

higher levels of education, positive (Fu & Heaton 2008)