SWORK 350 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Human Capital, Status Attainment, Acculturation
Human Capital Theory:
argues that status attainment, or the level of success achieved by an individual in society, is a
direct result of educational levels, personal values and skills, and other individual
characteristics and abilities !
Process of assimilation:
compete and eventually assimilate !
minority groups have has to give up their traditions and adopt Anglo-American culture !
learn culture and language !
primary sector examples:
families!
triple melting pot:
a process in which different groups come together, and contribute in roughly equal amounts to
create a common culture, and a new, unique society !
-intermarriage !
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enclave minority:
-china town !
status attainment:
-ones position in society, class!
-educational attainment, family income !
paternalism:
a society with a small elite class and a plantation based economy that will often develop a form
of minority relations !
important feature of dominant and minority relations:
-vast power differentials and huge inequalities between dominant and minority!
-repressive systems of control over minority groups !
-caste-like barriers !
-highly stylized codes of behavior and communications !
-low rates of overt conflict ***!
acculturation without integration:
-learn language and values without entering organizations of the dominant society !
colonized minority:
force into minority status by the superior military and political power of the dominant group !
-african american!
stratification:
(closed stratification system/caste system) there is no mobility between social positions, and
the social class you are born into is permanent !
years 1st laws that defined slavery
-1660’s !
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Human capital theory: argues that status attainment, or the level of success achieved by an individual in society, is a direct result of educational levels, personal values and skills, and other individual characteristics and abilities. Educational attainment, family income paternalism: a society with a small elite class and a plantation based economy that will often develop a form of minority relations important feature of dominant and minority relations: Vast power di erentials and huge inequalities between dominant and minority. Low rates of overt con ict *** acculturation without integration: Learn language and values without entering organizations of the dominant society colonized minority: force into minority status by the superior military and political power of the dominant group. African american strati cation: (closed strati cation system/caste system) there is no mobility between social positions, and the social class you are born into is permanent years 1st laws that de ned slavery. African americans and slaves would be considered this robert blauner.
