SOCI 212 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Immigration, Cultural Assimilation, Language Change
30 Nov 2018
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There is no evidence that anti-immigration attitudes are rooted in. To understand what happens after migration, you must know what occurs before. For the migrant, assimilation and migration are one in the same. Transitive use: to make similar or treat as similar homogenous construct. Polish and irish immigrants in chicago people had to assimilate and adopt the superior culture = normative edge). Holistic approach concerned about merging into a core culture/society. Process/direction of change (become more similar) not a state of being. Disaggregated approach/ multiple spheres not necessarily connected residential integration. Decline of an ethnic distinction and its corollary cultural and social differences . Individual level, as well as group level dimensions these are heuristics = ways of understanding: Boundary blurring = less relevant and formally organized. John f. kennedy boundary shift with catholics and protestants. Important piece richard and victor assimilation doesn"t happen because of assimilation or because immigrants want to assimilate (ex.
