SOCA Final

In general, there are two paths to citizenship for foreign-born persons. The first is naturalization, and the second is deriving citizenship from one's parent(s).

African American men account for 40% of the U.S. prison population.

Which groups did the National Origins Act of 1924 primarily attempt to exclude?

What do sociologists mean when they say that education serves a credentialing function?

What percentage of U.S. college students attends public nonprofit colleges and universities?

Sociologists have observed that upper-middle class blacks earn ______ percent of what their white counterparts earn.

Most sociologists reject Max Weber's definition of race.

Which of the following is least likely to be considered an ethnic enclave?

Of the following statements about the learning experience of high-track students, which is false?

Which of the following statements regarding the racial gap in household wealth between white and black Americans is false?

Countries with high numbers of emigrants are ________.

Felon disenfranchisement refers to _______.

What is the most common reason that parents choose to home-school their children?

__________ refer(s) to the accumulated sum of assets (savings accounts, homes, cars) minus the sum of debts (mortgages, loans, credit card debts).

__________ refers to the practice of marrying individuals whose educational levels are similar to one's own.

In the social and behavioral fields, women earn the smallest share of degrees in which discipline?

When Europeans settled in the New World, they wanted to open up territories for settlements. This meant that Native Americans were not only forcibly removed from their land but sometimes killed. This deliberate and systematic destruction of Native Americans was __________.

For upper-class white males, social origin is __________ to occupation and income.

Assimilation is the process by which immigrants come to be incorporated into their new society by taking on its cultural tastes and practices.

Social scientists have rarely attempted to assess the impacts of immigration on the United States.

What are advances in web technologies dubbed Web 3.0 expected to do?

In an ethnographic study of black and white working-class men, Deirdre Royster (2003) concluded that _________, remains a significant explanation for racial stratification in employment in the United Sates.

The term racial stratification refers to __________.

Max Weber's definition of race is based on a viewpoint referred to as __________.

One factor that might help girls perform better in school is that they tend to spend more time on homework and are less likely to have disciplinary problems.

Sociologists commonly assess educational attainment using all the following measurements EXCEPT __________.

Women and men in the United States are about equally likely to earn all the following degrees EXCEPT __________.

Some of the earliest research on prejudice and discrimination was conducted by __________, who saw racism as__________.

How many classes of nonimmigrant visas does the United States authorize?

The disparity in educational achievement between whites and Asian Americans, who tend to fare better, on average, than African American, Latino/a, and Native American students __________.

In the United States how much funding for schools comes from the federal government?

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriages in 1957.

According to world migration data for 2010, __________ is the top sending country.

The growing use of digital technologies outside of school will ___________ in education and society.

The 1924 Immigration Act limited the number of people who were allowed to emigrate to the United States from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Of the following skills, which type may be harder to learn online than the others?

__________ are the most residentially segregated of all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

__________ is the act of arriving and settling in a place.

The color-coded hierarchy of races did not exist until ______.

Today's immigrants to the United States are overwhelmingly from Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Teachers of high-track students spend more time on discipline than teachers of low-track students.

Normative theories of prejudice state that __________.

Allocation of U.S. visas exhibit a strong family focus.

Which of the following methods is more likely than the others to improve overall student achievement?

Prosperous and white children are __________ as poor or minority children to attend private schools.

Kendra has noticed that there are many homes for sale in her neighborhood. What explanation might she ascribe to this phenomenon, if she were aware that most people leaving the neighborhood were white, whereas most people moving into the neighborhood were black?

Tracking is __________.

Current U.S. law recognizes _______ different classes of foreign-born persons living in the United States.

In the science fields, the proportion of women receiving bachelor's degrees is higher in chemistry than in computer science.

Nazi policies culminated in the __________ of millions of men, women, and children in a network of extermination camps during World War II.