SOC205H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Land Of Oz, Social Capital, Psychological Stress
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Voluntary and involuntary segregation: voluntary segregation: people choose to live in the same area as others with a common culture. Involuntary segregation: people are forced by lack of financial resources or discrimination to live adjacent to others of the same culture group. Different theories that have tried to explain changes in immigrant settlement patterns. Classical perspectives: macro and micro perspectives: concentric zone model: describes relationship between city residential pattern and immigrant adaptation proces s. When immigrants move into a new country with limited resources and language skills, they usually stay closer to other members of their ethnic group. Because they have limited financial resources, they live at zone in transition, then move out to the outer zone when they increase their income. Invasion succession model:micro: racial and ethnic composition within individual neighborhoods. A few minority families with socio-economic resources move into the neighbourhood and the established groups move out.
