According to New politics of immigration, Fordism made
Question 10.4 pts
According to "New politics of immigration", Fordism made lots of jobs
pay enough to allow for mass consumption.
pay according to the profit rates of the firms.
provide some sense of social security for workers.
(all of the above)
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Question 20.3 pts
According to lecture and "The new politics of immigration", the decline of Fordism includes
state subsidies to Ford's competitors, such as General Motors and Chrysler.
cuts in pay/benefits; and moving toward part-time, short-term contracts with workers.
the rise of government income-support and social insurance programs like Social Security.
(all of the above)
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Question 30.3 pts
According to lecture, capitalism can develop when the regulatory power of bureaucracy not only defends the property/contractual rights of citizenship but also
restrains, by formal rules and records, disobedience and aggression.
preserves patrimonial family values and sectarian rituals.
maintains sectarian solidarity.
restricts mobility, so that natives don't have to compete with immigrants for jobs.
(all of the above)
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Question 40.4 pts
According to lecture, inner city industrial zones that drew immigrants who sought employment became ghost town due to the combination of
Fordism and organic solidarity.
the actual danger that immigrants pose to natives and increasing penetration by the bureaucratic state.
redlining and then deindustrialization.
lack of sociological education and lack of work skills.
(none of the above)
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Question 50.3 pts
According to the group-threat/positioning theory presented in lecture and in the "Contact theory" article, anti-immigrant symbolic racism in the U.S. results mainly from
lack of contact with minority groups, which makes friendships and familiarity hard to form.
the current migration of many relatively poor Latinos such that their numbers increase in the U.S. and they compete for jobs.
high rates of crime in the border cities in which immigrants concentrate.
the loss of U.S. factory jobs to cheap labor in Mexico (deindustrialization).
(all of the above)
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Question 60.3 pts
According to "The rise of the super-rich", the share of the nation's wealth held by richest 1% of this nation's households is most strongly affected by which of the following?
the proportion of Democrats in congress
welfare benefits paid to single mothers
home prices
how hard capitalists work
labor-union membership rates
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Question 70.3 pts
According to Calavita, an anti-immigrant crusade is symbolic in the sense that it
evokes a belief system in which illegal immigrants are a scourge.
is primarily a registration of anger rather than a reasoned effort at instrumental policymaking.
includes impractical, dramatic, spectacular, moral drama.
(all of the above)
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Solution: According to New politics of immigration, Fordism made