Chapter 9: Middle Eastern and North African Americans (#36-70)

A __________ would stress the undercurrents of resentment and tension against the visible presence of nonwestern minorities and their successes.

A) conflict theorist

B) functionalist

C) interactionist

D) exchange theorist

conflict theorist

The conflict perspective would emphasize that __________.

A) industrialists often used Syrian/Lebanese men to strengthen unions in the Northeast

B) the Syrian/Lebanese offered factory owners a more expensive and more skilled labor alternative

C) economic competition between two wage level groups generated ethnic antagonism and violence

D) better-educated immigrants become functionally integrated fairly easily

economic competition between two wage level groups generated ethnic antagonism and violence

For recent ethnic tensions __________.

A) conflict is usually more intense than toward previous waves of immigrants

B) the majority of conflict is between recent immigrants

C) the fear of further terrorist attacks and racial profiling add to underlying tension

D) the extreme violence has slowed immigration to a trickle

the fear of further terrorist attacks and racial profiling add to underlying tension

__________ theory explains ethnic conflict as economic exploitation of minority groups.

A) Functionalist

B) Conflict

C) Social interactionist

D) Ecological

Conflict

__________ theory explains ethnic discrimination as a social dysfunction.

A) Functionalist

B) Conflict

C) Social interactionist

D) Ecological

Functionalist

Functionalists would say that__________.

A) newcomers exacerbate the competition for scarce resources and set up class divisions

B) the split-labor market theory explains the antagonism and violence early newcomers faced

C) immigration laws ensure a support system in relative preference

D) social integration follows workplace integration

immigration laws ensure a support system in relative preference

According to the functionalist view, the better educated, better skilled, and better connected immigrants__________.

A) are typically welcomed immediately upon arriving into a new country

B) are celebrated by their host countries

C) quickly adjust

D) actually have a harder time leaving their old country behind

quickly adjust

According to the functionalist view, less skilled non-Westerner newcomers __________.

A) fill a population void in inner-city neighborhoods

B) live in middle-class neighborhoods

C) bring upheaval to neighborhoods

D) like the openness of rural communities

fill a population void in inner-city neighborhoods

__________ theory explains ethnic stereotypes as the dominant group's premature response to minority groups.

A) Functionalist

B) Conflict

C) Social interactionist

D) Ecological

Social interactionist

According to __________, North African and Middle Eastern immigrants have benefitted from immigration laws that ensure sufficient earning power in occupational preference or priority for those with a social support system already in place such as an extended family.

A) functionalists

B) conflict theorists

C) interactionists

D) feminists

functionalists

Bill, a city planner, is working to promote his town as a place for immigrants because his urban and exurban neighborhoods need the stability. As a(n) __________, he knows that these groups will help prevent neighborhood decline and maintain racial balance.

A) functionalist

B) conflict theorist

C) interactionist

D) feminist

functionalist

__________ theorists often find validity with the split-labor-market approach and point to the experiences of Syrian/Lebanese men in the United States as strikebreakers as further evidence to support that theory.

A) Functionalist

B) Conflict

C) Interactionist

D) Feminist

Conflict

Andrew understands that any immigrant group faces problems, but he is struck by the relative ease with which the groups in this chapter managed to integrate into U.S. society. As someone whose views align with the __________ perspective, he points to the high levels of education and professionalization that many of these immigrants brought with them as key factors in making this possible.

A) functionalist

B) conflict

C) interactionist

D) feminist

functionalist

__________ theorists viewed the terrible actions of 9/11 as a real threat to reducing prejudice because the already existing social distance of Arab Americans would make it easy to stereotype all of them as radical extremists.

A) Functionalist

B) Conflict

C) Interactionist

D) Feminist

Conflict

In seeking to explain the experiences of Middle Eastern and North African immigrants to the United States, Diadra, an immigrant from Syria, talks about how she gets along with everyone at work, but socially, she is not well integrated beyond her own compatriots. __________ stress that this increases opportunities for ethnic stereotypes and division to emerge.

A) Functionalists

B) Conflict theorists

C) Interactionists

D) Feminists

Interactionists

Arab Americans are more likely to be married than the total U.S. population.

TRUE

Educational attainment translates into occupations and income.

TRUE

Greater acculturation appears to be associated positively with satisfaction with life in the U.S. for Arabs but negatively associated with family satisfaction.

TRUE

Arab Americans appear to be generally unconcerned about racial differences in the United States.

TRUE

Many of today's Arab Americans are less sophisticated than other middle-class U.S. citizens.

FALSE

Predominantly Arab nations are political enemies of the United States.

FALSE

Syrian males usually came alone and then sent for their wives and children.

TRUE

Syrian and Lebanese people speak Arabic.

TRUE

Most Palestinian Americans are Hindus.

FALSE

Israeli Americans typically experience a smoother transition to American life than any other immigrant group.

TRUE

Terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, in New York City and Washington, DC increased suspicions about __________, although their social acceptance remains fairly strong.

Arab Muslims

Of all the Arab American groups, __________ have the highest level of educational attainment.

Egyptians

__________ is a broad term covering people of diverse nationalities, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Although Americans described by this term may share a sense of peoplehood, they come from 22 nations of North Africa and the Middle East.

Arab

As with most immigrant groups, __________ links play an important role in stabilizing community life for the Arab Americans.

kinship

Failure to grasp the humanity of the Arab people increases the __________ between non-Arabs and Arabs.

social distance

__________ means one group experiencing upward mobility gradually moves out of its old neighborhood.

Invasion-succession

The early immigrants formed a __________ of village-oriented entrepreneurs whose religious traditions served as their self identification.

gemeinschaft

Middle Easterners and Western Asians usually settle in urbanized areas near their __________, with whom they develop close primary social contacts.

Among the push-pull factors contributing to Israeli immigration was __________.

political unrest in the Middle East.

__________ occurs when there is large-scale entrance of minority group members into primary-group relationships with the host society in its social organizations and institutions. It is rarely seen among first-generation immigrant groups.

Structural assimilation