Participation in Ethnic Associations: The Case of Immigrants in West Germany

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Schoeneberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Turkish Immigrants ◽  
Ethnic Organizations ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ethnic Associations ◽  
Ethnic Organization

Ethnic organizations such as presently exist in large numbers in West Germany are often viewed as indicating a lack of social integration and participation by immigrants in the host society. It is here argued that whether these organizations segregate the immigrants and make their assimilation more difficult, as research on minority groups often claims, or whether they serve as mediating institutions to help integrate and assimilate the newcomers, as other theories would lead one to expect, will depend on the basic orientation of the ethnic organization itself toward the host country. The results of a study carried out in 1981–82 among Greek, Italian and Turkish immigrants indicate the distinctive characteristics of the organizations serving each of these three different groups, the extent to which persons of each nationality participate in these associations, the reasons they give for their participation, and the ways in which participation in organizations with different orientations affects the social integration and assimilation of the individual immigrants.

Multiculturalism in Education: Politics of Recognition

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes A. Van der Yen
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
The Social

One of the aims of education is the integration of students in the culture or cultures of society. However, western society presents a complex, ambiguous picture that is full of paradoxes. Three aspects of western society, the process of modernization, the influence of religion and church in society, and the social integration of minority groups in society illustrate this ambiguity. The politics of recognition implies a right to the preservation of identity. On the basis of the principle of equality, students of minority groups deserve recognition both as individuals on the basis of their human dignity, and as members of a cultural group on the basis of the principle of non-discrimination. Recognition of cultures is based on the principle of distinctiveness, which implies the value of distinct cultural characteristics. The consequences of this politics of recognition for education are discussed. In the context of a discussion of liberalism and communitarianism, a communicative design is developed that avoids the Scylla of educational neglect and the Charybdis of indoctrination and manipulation. Finally, the politics of recognition in Christian education is discussed. Different models of religious education are described and evaluated on the basis of three criteria.

scholarly journals Community Rehabilitation for Families of persons Convicted of Terrorism, Field study in Anbar provincem

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 511-528
Author(s):  
Maysam Yaseen Obaid ◽  
Maha Karim Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Rehabilitation Programs ◽  
Community Rehabilitation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Iraqi society, like other societies, witnessed social, economic and political changes after 2003. These changes have increased social problems within the community. Terrorism is one of the main phenomena that spread at that time. Many terrorist organizations have emerged in Iraqi society, whose social fabric, political stability and economic activity are at risk. The most dangerous of these organizations appeared in 2014, when they controlled a third of the governorates of Iraq. They have destroyed many cities and practiced brutal and inhumane methods against members of Iraqi society, such as rape, detention, displacement, and the recruitment of children, youth and families. These methods have led to many problems, including the problem of families of those convicted of terrorism and their effects on the individual or society. Therefore, this research aims to give special importance to the rehabilitation of these families and their integration into society. It aims to define social rehabilitation programs for families of those convicted of terrorism and to understand the nature of these programs. It seeks to determine the reasons for joining terrorist organizations. It also highlights the social reality of families of those convicted of terrorism, in Anbar Governorate and Habbaniyah city in particular, In order to improve the living conditions of these families and achieve opportunities for social integration so that they can achieve social integration within the community. The study relied on the descriptive and analytical method and the method of a social survey by taking a sample of (250) families.

scholarly journals The Involvement of Albanian Ethnic Immigrants in Entrepreneurship as a New Possibility on their Integration in the International Labour Market - Their Role in Transnational Bridging For Homemade Products (Case Of The Province Of Milan, Italy)

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
MA. Ilir Bejta ◽  
MSc. Elvira Fetahu
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
Immigrant Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Capital Development

It is like a circle, using business to build social integration and using social integration to increase competitiveness in the labour market for the Albanian ethnic immigrant minorities, increasing as well their human capital capacities, especially bridging transnational on domestic products and brands in order to make it easier for those to internationalize. Consequently, it will valorise their social position in the societies they live and work.This paper addresses and analysis, as well as evaluates the role entrepreneurship has on the social development and social integration of the ethnic immigrant minorities and the increase of their attractiveness in the international labour market.The paper addresses also the reasons and factors impacting the emerging of ethnic immigrant entrepreneurship worldwide and in EU. It analyzes their role on the world entrepreneurship and economic system, the actual situation of ethnic immigrant minorities, their social networks and organizations emerged due to their role as a new force and human capital in these markets. In this framework, being a transnational bridge on the internationalization of their home country products and culture, the Albanian ethnic immigrant entrepreneurship, as the main focus group of this study, can increase its possibilities to be more competitive in the labour market.Economic integration induces immigrants to increase contacts and be part of economic networks and  social networks too, as well as improve, as a necessity deriving from the economic competition, their human capital capacities and capabilities getting use of international labour market. Considering economic and human capital development we will measure their impact on the social welfare and integration of the ethnic immigrant minority groups in the modern society (Albanians in Province of Milan, Italy).

The social and personal functions of music in cross-cultural perspective

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

Music's uses and contexts are so many and so various that the task of cataloguing its functions is daunting: how can we make sense of this diversity? These functions appear to range from the individual (music can affect the way we feel and the way we manage our lives) to the social (it can facilitate the coordination of large numbers of people and help to forge a sense of group identity). This article argues that musical behaviour covers a vast middle ground in which relationships between self and other or between the individual and the collective are played out. It surveys some of the extant literature on music's functions – referring to literature from ethnomusicology, anthropology, musicology, psychology, and sociology, and discussing a wide variety of musical contexts from around the world – and develops an argument emphasizing music's role in the management of relationships between self and other.

Comment: Social Integration and Health: Contributions of the Social Sharing of Emotion at the Individual, the Interpersonal, and the Collective Level

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
Bernard Rimé
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Collective Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Sharing ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Bidirectional Flow

Among the four components proposed by Sbarra and Coan (2018) to guide the research aimed at understanding the role of emotion in the connection between social relationship and health, I view the fourth one, labeled “transactional dimensions,” as offering particularly rich promises in this regard. To illustrate, I sketch the example of individual, interpersonal, and collective effects entailed by the process of social sharing of emotion. The example rests on the bidirectional flow of transactions that develops continuously between these three levels.

Ritual Drama and Culture Change

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Ross Crumrine
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Culture Change ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Force Interaction ◽  
Passion Plays ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

In this paper we wish to postulate and examine kinds of relationships between ritual dramas, ceremonials, and culture change. A number of individual studies concerned with this question deserve to be seen as focusing upon a unitary phenomenon. By this we have in mind ceremonies or ritual dramas which symbolically mediate structural conflicts or oppositions either within a society or between societies. Max Gluckman (1954) and Hilda Kuper (1947, 1964) among others have pointed out that rituals of rebellion symbolically alleviate conflicts at the level of the social structure of a single society, for example the Swazi of South Africa. In doing so the ritual intensifies identification with the traditional social structure in spite of the conflicts within this structure. C. Geertz (1957) and James L. Peacock (1967, 1968a, b) point out that the traditional Javanese slametan ceremony tends to increase neighborhood, or kampung, social integration. Geertz shows that with urbanization and modernization the neighborhood becomes socially and economically differentiated and that in this situation slametans tend to force interaction between individuals who no longer share specific cultural beliefs and symbols and thus increase rather than reduce hostility and anxiety. Peacock extends this argument to ludruck, an urban proletarian drama. In ludruck, Peacock argues, the individual is led to identify not with his kampung (neighborhood) nor with a traditional village set of values but rather with the urbanite and his urban set of values. Turning to Latin America we may cite the study of Maya Passion Plays by June Nash (1968).

Expressive Enactments of Ethnic Membership in the Romanian-American Organizations from California

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-280
Author(s):  
Raluca Rogoveanu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Ethnic Organizations ◽  
Identity Representation ◽  
Ethnic Associations ◽  
Ethnic Organization

"Expressive Enactments of Ethnic Membership in the Romanian-American Organizations from California. Centered on the missions and repertoires of the Romanian ethnic organizations in California, this study analyzes how Romanian-Americans negotiate their Romanian ethnicity as individuals and as members of organized groups. While describing ethnic organizations as loci of ethnic awareness, founded on the expressive identification of Romanian-ness in the American space, my focus is on the heterogeneous discourses of the most visible Romanian ethnic associations in California. This study identifies ways of ""encapsulating"" Romanian ethnicity in ensembles of cultural practices which showcase ethnic culture through artifacts and cultural events as signifiers of ethnicity. Keywords: Romanian-Americans, California, ethnic organization/association, cultural practices, identity, representation "

scholarly journals Preserving traditions and modernization.

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-162
Author(s):  
Fanni Maszlag ◽  
Judit Csoba
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Integration Schemes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

The impact of globalization and modernization not only transforms Romani life at the individual level, but also changes the framework for the social integration of traditional communities, the way culture is transferred and socialized, while adding new content to the expression of Romani culture as well as identity and community values. In this transformation process, the dual role of Romani women in the development of new integration schemes is crucial for the minority group. As the guardians of habits and traditions in the socialization of the growing generations of the community, they ensure the continuation of traditions of identity, and at the same time – in response to environmental challenges – they are also the initiators of the changes needed to integrate into the majority society. The aim of the study was to explore the mechanism of this dual role – that is the preservation of tradition and the modernization for integration. In addition, within the framework of research, by examining three generations of Romani women belonging to the same family, we analysed the changing patterns of identity and looked at the extent to which the preservation or abandonment of traditions has contributed to the social integration and assimilation of Romani people over the past 20 years.

Liberté d'opinion et limite normative dans une représentation sociale: le développement de l'intelligence 1Ce texte reprend l'essentiel d'un exposé présenté en juin 1998 à la Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education de Genève, à l'occasion de la collation du Doctorat Honoris Causa de l'Université de Genève à l'auteur.

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Flament
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

This paper is concerned by a possible articulation between the diversity of individual opinions and the existence of consensus in social representations. It postulates the existence of consensual normative boundaries framing the individual opinions. A study by questionnaire about the social representations of the development of intelligence gives support to this notion.

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