SOC218H1 Lecture Notes - Cultural Assimilation, Human Ecology, Acculturation
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Is it about equality in housing, earnings? theoretical framework. Most elusive concept employed in the study of race and ethnic relations. General understanding: a wide range of ethnic changes and generally with im- plied direction towards greater homogeneity". robert e. park. Stage of race relation cycle contacts, competition, accommodation, assimilation. Robert park and his colleague suggests that to understand the society, we should take a human ecology approach. incorporate the idea of ecology from bi- ology to understand society. Similar to the animal kingdom, we have limited resources, have alot of in- dividuals in a habitat, we fight with each other for survival. similar to ani- mal kingdom. If we continue to fight, we need energy and alot of resources to survive (wasting resources) We have to accommodate each other to make use of re- sources. We don"t need to study cultural values, we can make as- sumptions simply based on the group size and their interac- tion.
