Acculturation and Occupation: A Study of the 1956 Hungarian Refugees in the United States

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1969
ISBN: 978-90-247-0468-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 127 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 215 g

Reihe: Research Group for European Migration Problems

The plans for this study were formulated between 1956 and 1958. For some time then, I had been interested in the processes of personal and social accommodation and in the factors that were responsible for resistance to change. While a graduate student at Columbia University at that time, I was also affiliated with a multidisciplinary research group at Cornell University Medical Colleges studying the reactions of people of various cultural and social backgrounds to situations of stress. The Hungarian refugees were one of the groups being studied. I thus decided to undertake a study of the process of acculturation, the Hungarian refugees providing an ideal population. I did not expect to encounter any serious difficulties. Needless to say, the work was beset with every sort of difficulty, financial, conceptual, etc., that usually accompanies research projects. It is only now, more than a decade later, that I am able to present my findings in their final form. I am pleased to have this opportunity to express my in­ debtedness to the many people who made thIS study possible. I have been fortunate in having teachers, colleagues, and friends, the same person, who helped me in the formulation often all in of the problem, offered encouragement along every step, and taught me the very skills I was to use.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinstock, S. A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Exilforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Acculturation: Definition and Context.- Definition.- Context.- II: Hungary: 1914–1956.- III: The Sample.- Background.- Composition.- IV: Methodology.- Procedure.- Measures of Acculturation.- Measures of Independent and Related Contemporary Variables.- V: Results.- General Problems of Analysis.- Analysis of Results.- Discussion of Specific Findings.- VI: Conclusion.- Acculturation and Occupational Status: Role Elements.- Appendices.