Odds & Ends
The class reading, “Still Separate, Still Unequal” depicts many inequalities in the American Education System and was written by this person.
Who is Jonathan Kozol?
Robert E. Park’s theory includes these four stages in the correct order.
What is:
Contact
Competition
Accommodation
Assimilation
________________ is organized activism intended to be engaged in over a long period, with the objective of changing society in some way through collective action.
What are Social Movements?
_________________ refers to the sorting and placement of students into different educational programs, presumably based on ability and prior academic achievement.
What is Tracking?
_______________ refers to the amount of money a person earns in a given period of time for work, Social Security, or some other government transfer that person might receive.
______________ refers to a person’s assets, which includes savings, retirements accounts, and the equity in one’s home, minus anything the person owes.
What is Income and what is Wealth.
This perspective focuses on the struggle for scarce resources by different groups within society.
What is the Conflict Perspective?
The two primary goals associated with Jim Crow in the South.
What is:
to reestablish black subordination and to disenfranchise black male voters?
The 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test is an example of this.
What are Black Codes?
This person created the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise, as well as a similar one in the film The Angry Eye.
Who is Jane Elliott.
Sociologists have documented a significant _________________, demonstrating that white workers earn more than nonwhite workers even when controlling for education, skills, and experience.
What is the Racial Wage Gap?
This sociological theory emphasizes the importance of social order and stability, society consensus, and equilibrium.
What is Functionalism?
Fear and hatred of the Chinese and Chinese culture is referred to as this.
What is Sinophobia?
Red Power activists engaged in _______________, efforts to be able to freely live their Native cultures by participating in traditional ceremonies, fighting for more racially inclusive education, and learning and preserving native languages.
What is Cultural Activism?
Objectives of this legislation were to raise student achievement gap, improve test scores, provide parents more educational choices, and guarantees better-qualified teachers in every classroom.
What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
____________________ specifically refers to data collected from unemployment offices around the country on people who are actively searching for work and unable to find it.
What are Unemployment Rates?
Early American sociologists used this approach when studying inter-group relations.
What is Assimilationist?
The definition for Xenophobia.
What is the fear and contempt for strangers?
This person organized Chicano Farm workers to fight for better working conditions.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
This case declared “separate but equal” the law of the land.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
William Julius Wilson uses ________________ instead of relying on official unemployment rates because it refers not only to those actively looking for work but also to those who have been marginalized from the labor force and are no longer actively looking for work.
Joblessness
Cultural ideologies are fueled through ______________, which are exaggerated and/or simplified portrayals of an entire group of people, based upon misinformation or mischaracterizations.
What are stereotypes?
___________________ are agreements made by homeowners, and backed by law, not to sell their homes to members of particular racial/ethnic minority groups.
What are Restrictive Covenants?
This is a shared consciousness among individuals of Asian background who identify as Asian American as recognition of their shared experiences with racism in American culture.
What is Pan-Asian Identity?
________________ is a collective sense of identity formed in opposition to that of white Americans. For example, when children at a very young age began to perceive succeeding in school as “acting white.”
What are Oppositional Identities?
Sociologists have found that employers perform white employees over African Americans, and black females over black males. This is a form of _______________________ in that individual applicants are disregarded based upon employer assumptions about them.
What is Statistical Discrimination?