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QUESTION 12

1. The sociologist "_________________________ _________________" believed that as the United States continued to modernize, urbanize, and industrialize, race and ethnicity would gradually lose their importance, allowing the boundaries between groups to eventually dissolve. He thought the result would be a more "rational" and unified society.

   	a.	Milton Gordon
   	b.	Robert Park
   	c.	Karl Marx
   	d.	Max Weber
   	e.	None of the above.

QUESTION 13

1. According to Wagley & Harris (1958), a minority group has five characteristics. Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics they emphasized:

   	a.	Lack of self-awareness
   	b.	Intimate relationships
   	c.	Inequality
   	d.	Ascription
   	e.	Visibility

QUESTION 14

1. True or False: Mass immigration from Europe to the United States beginning in the 1820's had a number of causes, but underlying the process was a fundamental shift in subsistence technology: the industrial revolution.

   True

   False

QUESTION 15

1. The process by which European (white) ethnic groups unintentionally affected one another's position in the social class structure of the larger society.

   	a.	Symbolic ethnicity
   	b.	Ethnic succession
   	c.	Segmented assimilation
   	d.	White ethnicity

QUESTION 16

1. True or False: Gender equality is generally highest in the industrialized nations of North America and Western Europe and lowest in the less developed, more agricultural nations of sub-Saharan Africa.

   True

   False

Answer 1

Answer 12: Robert Park.

He also felt that this would result in North America being a more "rational and unified society." He argued that if a society is democratic and industrial, then assimilation is going to be unavoidable.

Answer 13: Ascription

The five characteristics which a minority group possesses according to Wagley and Harris are distinguishing physical or cultural traits, unequal treatment, involuntary membership, in-group marriage and awareness of subordination,

Answer 14. True

The industrial revolution did play a concrete role in defining subsistent technology as the intensive labor that was engaged in agricultural activities shifted to hardcore, capital intensive, manufacturing processes instead.

Answer 15: Ethnic succession

In Sociology, Ethnic succession theory refers to how those ethnic or racial groups that come to a new area, may prefer to settle down in either urban areas of more old neighborhoods until they are at par economically with the some of the economic classes.   

Answer 16: True.

North America and Europe may rank among the highest in terms of gender equality, but they still follow old traditions of patriarchy and male dominance.