Sociology of Race and Ethic Relations
Create a study sheet using these questions and obtaining answers from book : https://archive.org/stream/RichardT.SchaeferRacialAndEthnicGroups14thEditionGlobalEditionPrintReplicaKindleEdition/%5BRichard%20T.%20Schaefer%5D%20Racial%20and%20Ethnic%20Groups%2014th%20Edition%20Global%20Edition%20%5BPrint%20Replica%5D%20Kindle%20Edition#page/n31/mode/2upMid-Term: Study GuideThis is an outline of the important themes, concepts and questions that you will have in the mid-term exam. The exam consists of 100 multiple-choice questions.Chapter 11. sociological term used to refer to a minority group2. criteria to define minority or subordinate groups (sociological characteristics)3. sociological definitions of ethnic group and racial group4. sociological definitions of race and ethnicity5. application of concepts to concrete examples (race, ethnicity and the like)6. meaning of genocide, ethnic cleansing, stereotypes, prejudice, racism, scapegoat, colonialism, secession, assimilation, amalgamation, “melting pot” , pluralism and the like.7. Schaefer’s inter-group relations continuum (application to concrete examples)8. What is stratification?9. Sociological perspectives (i.e. Conflict theory)Chapter 21. Merton’s typology of discrimination and prejudice2. According to Merton’s theory; who is a reluctant liberal, a timid bigot, a all-weather bigot and an all-weather liberal (analysis and application of concepts)3. How stereotyping could be related to the so-called self-fulfilling prophecy?4. What Robert Merton did (as a sociologist) regarding discrimination and prejudice?5. Basic definitions of discrimination and prejudice.6. institutional discrimination (application of the concept)7. racial tolerance & educationChapter 31. What is institutional discrimination?2. What is the under-class?3. Structural factors associated with creating an underclass4. What is double jeopardy?5. Affirmative Action6. What is reverse discrimination?7. What is the informal economy?Chapter 41. Immigration to the United States (periods)2. What is nativism?3. What is xenophobia?4. The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)5. US-legislation about immigration in the 20th century? the national origins system 1921,? 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act? Immigration Reform and Control Act of 19866. immigrants in the United States (social, economic abd political effects)7. What is the “brain drain”?8. Refugee status versus immigrant?9. Proposition 18710. The “wet foot, dry foot” policy11. Why people emigrate? (reasons)Chapter 61. the Native American population in the United States today (changes)2. The Indian Removal Act3. “Trail of Tears”4. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)5. The Ghost Dance6. The Indian Reorganization Act (1936)7. Termination Act (what it wanted?)8. national organizations representing Native Americans9. examples of pan-Indianism and panethnicity among Native Americans10. effort to assimilate Native Americans into White Society11. Fish-ins and Indian protests12. The Alaska Native Settlement Act of 197113. Socioeconomic situation in Indian reservations14. Education and Native Americans15. Native American health care versus white medicine16. the U.S. government’s policies toward the Native Americans in the nineteenth century (can you use a sociological term to describe that?)Chapter 7 and Chapter 81. The laws that defined the social position of slaves in the south (slave codes)2. Period before abolition of slavery (The antislavery movement)3. Period after abolition of slavery, “Jim Crow” laws4. Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896)5. Migrations of Black people from the South to the cities of the North (reasons)6. W.E.B. Du Bois versus Booker Washington7. When the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools?8. political philosophy and basic principles of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s9. Sociological perspectives regarding how prejudice and discrimination contribute to social, economic and health care problems among African-Americans10. African Americans in the occupational structure and in the economy11. African-Americans and Education12. Segregation in Public Schools13. Black men in professional careers14. ideas and view about Black families15. the judicial system and African-Americans16. death penalty and race, how they are related?17. Reconstruction period (what happened with blacks in the South)18. The policy of “separate but equal”19. “Politics of accommodation”20. the Niagara Movement21. Black protest surfaced in World War II22. de facto segregation versus de jure segregation23. Rosa Parks (what she did?)24. The practice of placing minority students in specific curriculum groups25. Black progress in higher education26. African Americans and the labor market27. African Americans are underrepresented in what professions28. the percentage of single parent households among Blacks29. Black men have higher death rates from30. U.S. government never issued an official apology for?