YINGER: CONTEMPORARY ASSIMILATION THEORY Flashcards
Yinger, Integration:
A group in integrated…to the degree that its members are distributed across the full range of associations and institutions and regions of a society in a pattern similar to that of the population as a whole.
Occupation and income, political structure
congress, local politics. Local system, social clubs/Kiwanis, elks, junior league)
Yinger p. 34
The rate of intermarriage is widely regarded as teh clearest measure of the extent of integrative
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Intermarriage can be defined as a marriage across a socially significant line of distinction. Generation region socioeconomic status is important variables.
Nearly 1/4 married outside the group and the proportion increasing both generation and occupation:
The more educated the more likely to marry outside the group.
the frequency intermarriage between Mexican Americans and non Hispanic Whites has increased substantially from about 19% in 1970 to 29% in 1990.
At the same time, the percentage of Mexican Americans marrying other Mexican Americans has declined from 77% to 66%.
Acculturation
an ethnic group is acculturated to the degree that the range of value and norms held by members fall into a pattern similar to the general population.
additive and substitutive acculturation
Yinger: Additive acculturation does not imply a dual identity, it refers to the enlargement of one’s cultural repertoire by acquiescing skills and value tastes from another ethnic group or society.
Values that may impede acculturation
Culture of Poverty; Unique value system (ftalism and present time orientation)
Amalgamation
perfectly acceptable to select from the group to the group. In a strictly biological sense two or more groups are amalgamated when the genetic makeup of their number has been drawn from the same gene pool.
