SOCL 3505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Immigrant Generations, Class Stratification, Acculturation
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Competing explanations continued: straight line assimilation: posits general trend of generational upward mobility across immigrant generations, segmented assimilation: posits 3 generational trajectories for immigrants: Upward economic movement and acculturation into mainstream society; Upward economic movement but within ethnic enclaves (ex: china town) In sum: poverty in the us is very much shaped by the cleavages of race, ethnicity, and nativity, reflection of broader and interrelated questions of racial/ethnic and class stratification in us. Family structure: rise of single female-headed families in 1970s and 80s. Driven by rise in divorce during the 1970s. Increasingly the path to single-parenthood by passing the institution of marriage. In 2000, 40% of unmarried women with children never have been married: poverty of has a disproportionate impact on single female-headed families.
