COM 312 Final Exam 58 Questions with Verified Answers
What are the 4 waves of immigration? - CORRECT ANSWER The first wave 1607-1830
The second wave- 1830's-1880's
The third wave- 1890's-1920'a
The fourth wave- 196
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COM 312 Final Exam 58 Questions with Verified Answers
What are the 4 waves of immigration? - CORRECT ANSWER The first wave 1607-1830
The second wave- 1830's-1880's
The third wave- 1890's-1920'a
The fourth wave- 1965-today
First Wave of Immigration - CORRECT ANSWER -1607-1830
-Protestants from Northwestern europe
Also Spanish, French, and Native American
-Brought Indentured servants and African Slaves
Second Wave of Immigration - CORRECT ANSWER -1830's-1880's
-Irish Catholics
Germans
Chinese
-Frightened by the Germans they had their own theaters, newspapers, libraries, schools, curls, taverns, and places of worship
-Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 stopped all chinese immigration they couldn't be US citizens until 1943
Third Wave of Immigration - CORRECT ANSWER -1890's-1920's
-Italy
Russia
Poland
Hungary
-Religious Differences: Catholic & Jewish
What was the Great Black Migration of 1915-1920 - CORRECT ANSWER Transformed rural farming blacks into urban factory workers, forced into their own ethnic neighborhoods, Race riots, great white flight created todays suburbs,
Lynching in America - CORRECT ANSWER Blacks were getting to uppity, to protect women (fear of sexual assault), From 1882-1968 there were 4,743 reported lynchings mostly public
Immigration Quota Act - CORRECT ANSWER 1921 & 29
Capped immigration to 150,000
Set quotas for southern and eastern europeans
Allowed All northern europe
Completely ban all Asians/chinese
What groups are coming to the USA in the last 10 years? - CORRECT ANSWER Mexico, China, India, Philippines, Cuba, DR, Vietnam, Iraq, El Salvador, Pakistan, Jamaica
What are the 8 cultural dimensions - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Perception of Self
2. Power Distance
3. Time Orientation
4. Activity Orientation
5. Social Mobility
6. Relationship with Material
7. Moral Human Nature Orientation
8. Relationship with Nature
Perception of self - CORRECT ANSWER Individual Cultures: taught that individual needs and desires take precedence over what is best for the group/culture
Collective Cultures: taught group/cultural needs take precedence over the desires of individuals
(East Asia and West USA & Europe)
Power Distance - CORRECT ANSWER Vertical Power Cultures: encourage respect for rank and status
Horizontal Power Cultures: Taught to challenge rank and to question the status of the powerful
Time Orientation - CORRECT ANSWER Past: grounded in tradition (vertical cultures)
Present: living for the moment
Future: Eye on the future
Activity Orientation - CORRECT ANSWER Doing (External): stressing the external world of tasks & accomplishments (focus on the hard material world)
Being and Becoming (Internal): Stressing the internal world of thought, spirituality, & relationships (focus on the soft human)
Social Mobility - CORRECT ANSWER Socially Stagnant Cultures: Limited access to power and improvement (Always vertical cultures: people in power stay in power)
Socially Dynamic Cultures: Stress equal access to power & improvement for all (Always horizontal cultures: Power can always be lost or gained)
Relationship with Material - CORRECT ANSWER Materialistic Cultures: Love the external world of things (Often doing cultures with their external focus)
Non-Materialistic Cultures: Emphasis on the Internal world of relationships and the spiritual
Moral Human Nature Orientation - CORRECT ANSWER Good: have you been taught that humans naturally do good (Doing good comes easy without thinking or struggle)
Evil: Have you been taught that humans naturally gravitate towards evil? (Being bad comes easy, without thinking or struggle)
Relationships With Nature - CORRECT ANSWER 1) Humans dominate nature (Often doing & materialistic cultures with their focus on things and production)
2) Humans are inter-connected with nature
3) Nature dominates humans
What do the cultural dimensions help you do? - CORRECT ANSWER Know yourself better
Know other cultures better
Reaffirm the things you like and change the things that will improve life
What are the 4 rites of passage? - CORRECT ANSWER -Coming of Age
-Marriage
-Death
What function do they play in societies? - CORRECT ANSWER
What is their place in our modern world? - CORRECT ANSWER
What are the 10 coming of age rituals? - CORRECT ANSWER
Binary Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER -Humans divide their world into 2 groups
-Located at the 2 extremes
-Within seconds you start dividing/labeling everyone into binary categories
Implicit Personality Theory - CORRECT ANSWER -Search for one big trait to guide binary categorization
-Brain judges a book by its cover so it seems less diverse
-Positive (halo) Negative (devil)
Fundamental Attribution Error - CORRECT ANSWER -We all give ourselves the benefit of the doubt
-Our attributes favor us
-Attributions of others always cheat them
Out-group Homogeneity Effect - CORRECT ANSWER -Human brain quickly categorizes and assigns everything into a group
-We belong to in-groups
-Others belong to out groups
Expectation Bias - CORRECT ANSWER -These expectations distort how we interpret the objective world
-The white and black kid video of what they are doing right or wrong
Confirmation Bias - CORRECT ANSWER -Most people past age 18 will never change their foundational beliefs
Key aspects of Hinduism - CORRECT ANSWER
Eustress - CORRECT ANSWER short-term; encourages positive actions and attitudes
Hypostress - CORRECT ANSWER under-load; anxiety from boredom or lack of challenge
EX: not having a job over the summer
Hyperstress - CORRECT ANSWER too many things, unable to adapt/cope
Anger: - CORRECT ANSWER Alarm clock, the "righteous" emotion, response to fear and other emotions
Anger Ins - CORRECT ANSWER Avoiders and accommodators, don't admit to anger, passive aggressive
Anger Outs - CORRECT ANSWER Express anger to offender, vocal and physical, automatic reactions, quick to criticize/blame
Anger Controllers - CORRECT ANSWER Don't let feelings control responses
Responding to others' anger - CORRECT ANSWER Stay calm, listening diffuses others anger, acknowledge source
Relational Transgressions - CORRECT ANSWER Problematic situation, relationship's core value violated, leave emotional residues
Core Relational Rules - CORRECT ANSWER Define expectations for behavior, differs based on relationship
Forgiveness - CORRECT ANSWER Cognitive process that consists of letting go of feelings of revenge and desire to retaliate
Hurt - hate - healing - coming together
Reconciliation - CORRECT ANSWER Behavioral process to take actions to restore a relationship after forgiveness
5 Steps to Forgiveness - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Account and Apology: main reason for not forgiving
2. Acceptance of account and apology or its absence: reframing event and offender, can't change the past
3. Forgiveness may not be communicated
4. Transforming the relationship (if desired)
5. Actions confirm forgiveness: self ful-filling prophecies
Tangible Conflict Issues - CORRECT ANSWER Scarce resources, often all or nothing (money, people, space, objects)
BATNA - CORRECT ANSWER Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreement
Bargaining Range - CORRECT ANSWER Resistance point (MIN) - bargaining range - aspiration point (MAX)
Cooperative vs. Competitive negotiation - CORRECT ANSWER Separate people from problem, seek commonalities, "we" statements
Dispute - CORRECT ANSWER leads to need 3rd party because it cannot be resolved
Role of Mediator - CORRECT ANSWER Neutral 3rd party, no decision - making power over outcome, facilitator of communication
Skills of mediator - CORRECT ANSWER Unbiased, suspend judgment, confidentiality, "I" statements, open mind
Mediation process - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Intake: why mediator is needed
2. Opening Statement: purpose, process, roles, rules
3. Hear Parties Views: check accuracy, identify key terms (CAUCUS: solo convo with each participants)
4. Common Ground: Fractionation: breaking down smaller parts of tissue and solving those first
Reframing: clarify statement
5. Final Agreement: careful, specific wording, behavioral commitments
Goal Differences: - CORRECT ANSWER Instrumental/task, relationship, identity, process conflict
Intractable Issues - CORRECT ANSWER - Communication and negotiation are not enough
- Conflicting values, beliefs, and rituals
- Very difficult to resolve
- Fueled by distrust and dislike
- right vs wrong
Worldview - CORRECT ANSWER - How we interpret the world
- Socialization
- Values, beliefs, and rituals
Patriotism - CORRECT ANSWER pride for your country
Nationalism - CORRECT ANSWER Belief your country is the best, other countries would benefit if yours ruled it
The "Other" - CORRECT ANSWER - Someone who is a member of the out-group
- Moral conflicts: Inability to understand other, disregard other's arguments, persuasion -> perception of other as pervert, stupid
Responses to the "Other" (4) - CORRECT ANSWER o Demonizing: others should be feared and eliminated
o Colonization: inferiority and contempt
o Generalizing: stereotype and individual
o Vaporizing: how do we do this?
Privilege - CORRECT ANSWER o Power-shaping the world
o Makes life earlier for some, often seen by privileged
o System caters to privileged
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