LEARN MORE...

SOC 330 Key Concepts Socioeconomic Exam Practice 2

Content type

User Generated

Subject

Social Science

Course

SOC 330

Type

Exam Practice

Uploaded By

WvzJva123

Pages

Showing Page:

1/3

SOC 330: KEY CONCEPTS FOR EXAM #2

1. Socioeconomic and educational differences between Asian, Hispanic, African, and Native Americans

2. Chinese Exclusion Act

Immigration laws that excluded Chinese people. First time that a specific group was formally barred from entrance.

3. Model minority

Term given to Asian Americans because of how well they are assimilating into American society.

4. Social and racial in-between status of Hispanic Americans

They are not prejudiced and discriminated against like black people but they do not enjoy the benefits that European immigrants

receive. They are partial minorities. They don’t get treated too badly often but when they do, attention is not called to it.

5. Assimilation differences between Asian, Hispanic, African, and Native Americans

Cultural Assimilation Structural: Secondary Primary

African Americans: very high medium low

Hispanic: low medium high

Native Americans: high low very high

Asians: medium high high

6. Hispanic Americans and race

7. The general Allotment Act

Also called the Dawes Act. Reservation lands were broken up and allotted to individual tribal members. Land not allotted would be

sold to non-Indians. This gave the Indians even less land.

8. The process of black enslavement-why blacks and not other groups

Blacks were physically different from whites. Native Americans were on their home ground. European Servants were encouraged to

migrate.

9. Race relations during the Jim Crow era

Blacks were held to be inferior to whites even though free. Laws were made throughout the South to keep the races separated.

Segregation was maintained through force and ideology.

10. Black northward migration and urban ghettos

Blacks moved out of the South and into the cities looking for jobs. The North was only slightly better than the South. White people

still believed that blacks were meant to serve.

11. Plessey v. Ferguson and separate but equal doctrine

1896 Supreme Court case that firmly upheld Jim Crow segregation.

12. Indian Removal Act

Showing Page:

2/3

Called for the relocation of all tribes living in the Eastern United States to land set aside for them west of the Mississippi River. Most

devastating action by government in destroying Indian culture.

13. Pan-Indianism

Unity of Native American groups regardless of culture or tribal affiliation.

14. Trail of Tears

The forced migration of the Cherokees to Oklahoma during winter. 4,000 died on the march.

15. Indian Reorganization Act

Changes in decades of anti-Indian legislation. Tribal self rule cultural preservation. Also

16. Indian Casinos

The largest and most significant economic projects for Native Americans. Also called gaming.

17. Termination Act

End of the government’s responsibility to provide economic programs to Indians and ended government protection of tribal lands.

Eventually reversed.

18. The size of Native Americans in urban areas

19. Civil rights movement and strategies

20. Self determination and native Americans

21. Establishment of white dominance over Indians and Native American stereotypes

22. Population sizes of African, Native, Asian, and Hispanic Americans and within each ethnic group

23. Structural and cultural assimilation differences across and within each ethnic group

Cultural Assimilation Structural: Secondary Primary

Mexican Americans: low medium medium

Puerto Ricans: low low medium

Cuban Americans: low high high

Japanese: high very high very high

Filipino: high high high

Asian Indian: high very high low

Chinese: medium high medium

Korean: medium high medium

Cambodian: low low low

Showing Page:

3/3

Unformatted Attachment Preview

SOC 330: KEY CONCEPTS FOR EXAM #2 1. Socioeconomic and educational differences between Asian, Hispanic, African, and Native Americans 2. Chinese Exclusion Act Immigration laws that excluded Chinese people. First time that a specific group was formally barred from entrance. Model minority Term given to Asian Americans because of how well they are assimilating into American society. Social and racial in-between status of Hispanic Americans They are not prejudiced and discriminated against like black people but they do not enjoy the benefits that European immigrants receive. They are partial minorities. They don’t get treated too badly often but when they do, attention is not called to it. Assimilation differences between Asian, Hispanic, African, and Native Americans Cultural Assimilation Structural: Secondary Primary African Americans: very high medium low Hispanic: low medium high N ...
Purchase document to see full attachment

Tags: Socioeconomic Chinese Exclusion Act asian Hispanic African Native Americans