SOC210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transnationalism, Social Capital, Acculturation
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Straight line assimilation approach: gordon = assimilation was the best route for immigrants to integrate into north. We can see ethnic groups getting higher socio-economic success: assumes that north american society is an undifferentiated whole = multicultural. [mary waters on west indians in the united states: she finds that the first generation of west indians who first came to the united. Their success in the us was tied to their west indian identity: they had a strong work ethnic and had a unique understanding of race relations allowed them to have better interactions with white americans. Segmented assimilation: focuses on the experiences of second generation immigrants, used to describe the diverse possible outcomes of immigrant adaptation, assimilation process is seen as segmented. Interested in how the new second generation (children of contemporary immigrants) become incorporated into the system of stratification in the host society = zhou article. 3 forms of immigrant adaptation: upward social mobility.
