SOC375H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Theoretical Ecology, Komagata Maru Incident, List Of Traditional Settlements Of Greece
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2 things penetrating into each other building something new not always expecting the new migrants to change, but also the host society equates assimilation with the social processes that bring ethnic minorities into the mainstream of american life. Social assimilation the name given to the process or processes by which people of diverse racial origins and different cultural heritages, occupying a common territory, achieve a cultural solidarity sufficient at least to sustain a national existence. Structural assimilation: the incorporation into society of an ethnic group so that it has equal access to the major associations and institutions (process whereby a minority group is incorporated into class and occupational structure of the wider society) Acculturation" - the minority group"s adoption of the cultural patterns of the host society, typically comes first and is inevitable intrinsic cultural traits, those that are vital ingredients of the group"s cultural heritage".
