| Milton M. Gordon - Social Science - 2010 - 287 pages
...Robert Redfield, Ralph Linton, and Melville J. Herskovits, declared that acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals...contact, with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups.2 2 Robert Redfield, Ralph Linton, and Melville f . Herskovits, "Memorandum... | |
| Kit W. Wesler - History - 1998 - 380 pages
...the resulting changes..." (Bateson 1972a:62). According to the memorandum, "Acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals...first-hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original culture patterns of either or both groups" (Redfield et al. 1936:149). The committee made a distinction... | |
| David Palumbo-Liu - Social Science - 1999 - 522 pages
...Acculturation of the Social Science Research Council. According to this report, acculturation "comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals...contact, with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups."1 This definition has the uncommon merit of noting the mutual (rather... | |
| Theresa A. Singleton - Social Science - 1999 - 388 pages
...(see Staski 199o). Acculturation generally refers to "those phenomena [cultural traits or complexes] which result when groups of individuals having different...contact, with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups" (Herskovits 1941:1o). Melville Herskovits, a pioneer in acculturation... | |
| Michael Suleiman - Social Science - 2010 - 369 pages
...Process: Assimilation or Integration? Broadly defined, acculturation refers to the changes that occur when "groups of individuals having different cultures...contact, with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups."10 How an immigrant reacts to his or her new situation in Canada... | |
| Kerwin Lee Klein - History - 2023 - 394 pages
...acculturation, Melville J. Herskovits, Robert Redfield, and Ralph Linton, in 1936 defined acculturation as "those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original culture patterns of either or both groups."... | |
| Donald Edward Davis - History - 2003 - 370 pages
...Theodorson and Theodorson, A Modern Dictionary of Sociology, 3. The classic formulation of acculturation is "those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact" (Redfield, Linton, and Herskovits, "Memorandum," 149). Alfred Kroeber saw acculturation... | |
| Andreas Reichstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 348 pages
...Acculturation," American Anthropologist 38, no. 1 (January /March 1936): 149: "acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals...contact, with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups." For questions concerning acculturation and assimilation see, for... | |
| Meinolf Dierkes, Ariane Berthoin Antal, John Child, Ikujiro Nonaka - Business & Economics - 2003 - 1012 pages
...which was defined by Redfield, Linton, and Herskovits (1936) as follows: Acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals...contact, with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups. Under this definition acculturation is to be distinguished from... | |
| Joseph G. Ponterotto - Psychology - 2001 - 948 pages
...mannet: "Acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals sharing different cultures come into continuous first-hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original culture patterns of either or both groups" (p. 149). Three decades later, Graves (1967) coined the... | |
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