SOC questions. answer 3 of 4 questions in 2 hrs.
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homework_6.docxSociology 0835 – Ethnicity and the Immigration Experience in the United States
Answer three of the following questions. Each question is worth six points, broken out in as follows:
· Accuracy and Completeness (3 points)
· Clarity and Organization (2 points)
· Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation (1 point)
Type your answers in the space below each question, save your document, and then upload it to Blackboard when you are finished.
Question 1:
Why do social scientists believe that educational attainment will play a more critical role in the assimilation of the post-1965 immigrant groups, than it did for the immigrant ethnic groups of the industrial era of immigration?
Question 2:
What role do religious institutions play in the assimilation process in the United States? Why might religious institutions play a more pivotal role in the integration process in the United States, and in most European contexts?
Question 3:
What do social scientists mean when they discuss the fact that gender roles in immigrant families under go a process of “re-negotiation”? Why does this process happen?
Question 4:
Briefly identify the five functions of ethnic media and give an example of each one.
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