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Chapter Outline
- Theory
- Designed to explain why a phenomenon exists and how it operates
- The diversity of theories to explain the dynamics of ethnic relations
- The Range of Theories on Ethnic Relations
- Assimilation theories
- Robert Park and stages of assimilation
- competitive stage
- accommodation
- assimilation
- Milton Gordon
- cultural assimilation
- structural assimilation
- marital assimilation
- identification assimilation
- attitude-receptional assimilation
- behavioral-receptional assimilation
- civic assimilation
- Pluralism theories
- Ethnogenesis
- Biological theories
- Kin selection or inclusive fitness
- Reciprocal altruism
- Human ecology theories
- Power and stratification theories
- Caste theories
- Colonialism theories
- external colonialism
- colonialization complex
- forced entry into a territory and its population
- alteration or destruction of the indigenous
- culture and patterns of social organization
- domination of the indigenous population by representatives of the invading society
- justification of such activities with highly prejudicial, racist beliefs and stereotypes
- Split-labor market theories
- Split-class theories
- Middleman minorities theories
- A Unified Theory of Ethnic Relations
- Adopting and adapting elements from existing theories
- The key variables of the theory
- Resource shares of ethnics
- Ethnic stratification
- Identifiably or distinctiveness of ethnics
- Level of discrimination
- Sense of threat
- Relative size of ethnic subpopulations
- Entrepreneurial and educational resources of ethnics
- Negative beliefs and stereotypes about ethnics
- Egalitarian values of the broader society and culture
- The mutually reinforcing relations among these variables
- The centrality of threat as the fuel behind discrimination
- Summary
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2007 McGraw-Hill Higher Education