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Argues that class is a group that has its basis common life chances or opportunities available to it in the marketplace.
. What distinguishes members of a class is that the have similar value in the commercial marketplace in terms o selling their own property and labor. |
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| Cataloged variation by race, including differences in head formation, a pseudoscience call |
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| Acquired traits can be passed down across generations |
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| The theory of controlling the fertility of populations to influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to generation. |
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| Straight-line assimilation |
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| Mimic the practices and behaviors of the folks who were already there, and achieve full assimilation in a newly homogenous country |
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Cultural
• Change of cultural patterns to those of host society
Structural
• Large-scale entrance into cliques
Marital
• Large-scale intermarriage
Identification
• Development of sense of collective identity based exclusively on host society
Attitude Receptional
• Absence of prejudice
Behavior Reception
• Absence of Discrimination
Civic Assimilation
• Absence of value and power conflict. |
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| seven states of assimilation |
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Contact
Competition
Accommodation
Assimilation |
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• Noticed something that these theories of assimilation could not explain
People did not so easily shed their ethnic ties
Ethnic identification, among whites ethnics and everyone else, persisted even after a group attained certain levels of structural assimilation |
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| Harold Isaacs on assimilation |
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| Explained this persistence as a matter of primordialism |
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The strength of ethnic ties resides in deeply felt or primordial ties to one’s culture
Ethnicity is in a word fixed |
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| Line of thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones |
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