HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Acculturation, Protective Factor
14 Dec 2018
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One in five americans either was born abroad or born of parents who were born abroad. Compared with many countries, the us welcomes immigrants even though many people have conflicting attitudes and values about immigration. Immigrants being willing to do work many american born workers will not do. Immigrants also provide a pool of younger workers. Racial and ethnic groups in the us. Racial group: socially defined group distinguished by selected, inherited physical characteristics (today race not biologically possible) Ethnic group: sense of peoplehood based on a common national origin, religion, or language. Minority group: subordinate to majority in terms of power and prestige (not numbers) Acculturation theory dominated by idea of assimilation. Immigrants suffer acculturative stress but gradually acquire values of the dominant culture and that stress diminishes. Concept of unidirectional linear progress (not true) Used to explain the incorporation of turn-of-the-century european immigrants into the american melting pot .
