Test 3

Question 1

Immigrant enclave

Answer 1

Neighborhoods where immigrants settle that are involved in local social institutions

Question 2

Ghetto neighborhood

Answer 2

An area where a racial or ethnic minority group is forced to live by poverty or discrimination

Question 3

Cantanonment

Answer 3

A temporary or military encampment, particularly associated with colonial rule

Question 4

Social stratification

Answer 4

Unequal distribution of wealth, power, and status that by a race, ethnic, or gender

Question 5

Social mobility

Answer 5

Capacity of a group of individual to move from one social class to another

Question 6

Tenements

Answer 6

Multiple small, low costing housing units

Question 7

Mutual aid societies

Answer 7

Organizations created to provide insurance and other services to immigrants and minorities

Question 8

Tenement Reform Movement

Answer 8

A social movement in NYC and elsewhere that designed to improve safety and conditions of tenements

Question 9

Jim Crow

Answer 9

Set of laws in the US that enforced segregation and compromised civil rights

Question 10

De jure segregation

Answer 10

Segregation by laws governing where people live

Question 11

De facto segregation

Answer 11

Segregation by informal means, such as preferences to live with one’s kind

Question 12

Subdown towns

Answer 12

Towns and areas where blacks were prohibited from residing in municipal limits

Question 13

Social isolation

Answer 13

The lack of regular interaction between different ethnic groups and races, typically between minority groups and majority population

Question 14

Culture of poverty

Answer 14

Term for the cultural traits of impoverished people living together in dense settlements (Oscar Lewis)

Question 15

Segregation

Answer 15

The act of different ethnic groups living separate

Question 16

Integration

Answer 16

The act of different ethnic groups living together

Question 17

Index of dissimilarity

Answer 17

% of racial group that would have to move to achieve integration

Question 18

Index of exposure

Answer 18

The degree that people live near members of a different ethnic group

Question 19

Index of isolation

Answer 19

Degree that people live near others of the same ethnic group

Question 20

Hyper segregation

Answer 20

Term from the central city ghetto neighborhoods being segregated, isolated, and concentrated

Question 21

Institutional ghettos

Answer 21

Segregated neighborhoods where social organization corresponds to that of a larger society

Question 22

Informal economy

Answer 22

Economic activity that is not officially regulated, recorded, or taxed

Question 23

Jobless ghettos

Answer 23

(William Julius Wilson) term for high poverty neighborhoods where fewer than 1/2 of the working class actually works

Question 24

Deindustrialization

Answer 24

Shift from large, formal, state run mental health facilities to small community based facilities

Question 25

Gentrification

Answer 25

The process of rebuilding old vacant places. This causes a displacement of people because people are forced out of their homes for the benefit of the wealthy. Rent and Values also increase which means people get displaced

Question 26

Ethnic enclaves

Answer 26

Areas of cities were immigrants of the same ethnic backgrounds come together to create social and economic opportunities for themselves

Question 27

Consensus Social Theory

Answer 27

Committed to economic view of human nature | Importance of competitive individual identity

Question 28

Critical Social Theory

Answer 28

Competitive sociological view of human nature | Importance of cooperative group identity