America's Melting Pot Reconsidered

Hirschman, Charles

doi:10.1146/annurev.so.09.080183.002145

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“…Back in 1940, a high school-educated father was rather high in the educational hierarchy of the American adult population, in which, according to the GSS data, fewer than 20 percent of fathers had some college education. Many of these fathers were first-or secondgeneration immigrants who, by many accounts, had a strong mobility orientation for their children (Hirschman 1983). In contrast, high school-educated fathers of the most recent cohorts are lower in the educational hierarchy and may differ in their mobility orientation from their counterparts from the 1940s.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement

2006

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In a few short decades, the gender gap in college completion has reversed from favoring men to favoring women. This study, which is the first to assess broadly the causes of the growing female advantage in college completion, considers the impact of family resources as well as gender differences in academic performance and in the pathways to college completion on the rising gender gap. Analyses of General Social Survey data indicate that the female-favorable trend in college completion emerged unevenly by family status of origin to the disadvantage of sons in families with a low-educated or absent father. Additional analyses of National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS) data indicate that women's superior academic performance plays a large role in producing the gender gap in college completion, but that this effect remains latent until after the transition to college. For NELS cohorts, who were born in the mid-1970s, the female advantage in college completion remains largest in families with a low-educated or absent father, but currently extends to all family types. In conjunction with women's growing incentives to attain higher education, gender differences in resources related to family background and academic performance largely explain the growing female advantage in college completion.

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The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement

2006

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“…Japanese men actually earned more than comparable white men in 1976. In a similar study, Wong & Hirschman (1983) found that Asian women had higher incomes overall than whites be cause they had higher amounts of education, lived in higher income areas, and were younger overall than whites.…”

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“…We do not survey the important literature on white ethnic group inequality because of space limitations. (For a good overview, see Alba 1990, Lieberson 1980, Lieberson & Waters 1988, Hirschman 1983 For most racial and ethnic populations in the United States, classification problems also arise because of the progress of amalgamation and assimilation. The significant exception remains African Americans.…”

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Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States

1995

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This review examines research about current levels and recent changes in ethnic and racial stratification in the United States. Research about ethnic inequality emphasizes that economic stagnation and restructuring are trou bling impediments to progress toward equality, and it shows evidence that employers may still use racial and ethnic queues in hiring. A number of issues arise with respect to the incorporation of the new waves of immigrants who have arrived since immigration law reform in 1965. We discuss patterns of adaptation of new immigrants, including available evidence on the ethnic enclave economy and substitution in the labor market of immigrants for native minorities. We summarize new theories and hypotheses about the fate of the children of recent immigrants, and we point to topics in this area needing further research.

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“…However, this view is too idealistic. The research often ignores the racial differences and socioeconomic background of immigrant groups, which could lead to a mismatch between theory and practice (Hirschman 1983). Thus, the idea of assimilation gradually fell out of favour (Qiu 1988).…”

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Outside entrepreneurs in Chinese tourism historical villages: how do they integrate?

Xu¹,

Haoran²

2017

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Tourist development can reverse the shrinking of traditional villages in the remote rural areas in China, and can even attract outside entrepreneurs to move in. However, how these outside entrepreneurs interact with the local communities has seldom been explored, and therefore, this study will use Hongcun, a historical village and world heritage site in China, as a case study, and apply observation and interview methods to explore outside entrepreneurs' integration into the local community in such aspects as spatial integration, business cooperation, social interaction, participation in community affairs, social identity and attitude toward tourism development. This study finds that in Hongcun, outside entrepreneurs have a low degree of integration into the local community, and that this low level of integration is the result of both political marginalization of the outsiders and their comparative advantage in economic and knowledge capital. Suggestions are also provided.

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America's Melting Pot Reconsidered

Cited by 202 publications

References 125 publications

The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement

The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement

Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States

Outside entrepreneurs in Chinese tourism historical villages: how do they integrate?

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