Assimilation and Pluralism
Assimilation and Pluralism
Factors Affecting Assimilation
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Manner of Entrance
Time of Entrance
Demographic Factors
Cultural Similarity
Visibility
Assimilation and Pluralism
Assimilation
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Cultural Assimilation
Structural Assimilation
Biological Assimilation
Psychological Assimilation
Assimilation and Pluralism
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Park’s Race Relations Cycle:
contact competition
accommodation
assimilation
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Gordon’s Stages of Assimilation:
cultural or behavioral assimilation
structural assimilation
marital assimilation (amalgamation)
identificational assimilation
attitude receptional assimilation
civic assimilation
Assimilation and Pluralism
Types of Pluralism
 Equalitarian
Pluralism
American Case
Non-American Cases
 Inequalitarian
Pluralism
Competitive Race Relations
Internal Colonialism
Annihilation or Expulsion
Assimilation and Pluralism
Typology of Multiethnic Societies
Colonial
Societies
Corporate
Pluralistic
Societies
Assimilationist
Societies
See Figure 4.1 and Table 4.2
American Demography &
Immigration
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Nascent Immigration
The Slave Trade
South
Southwest
Old Immigration
New Immigration
Newest Immigration
Current Immigration