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Diversity and Pluralism - 11120152
12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED068602 AUTHOR: Greeley, Andrew M.
TITLE: The Rediscovery of Diversity.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1971
NOTE: 35 p.
ABSTRACT: The data which has accumulated at the National
Opinion Research Center over the past several years on the
differential personality constellations of eight American
white ethnic groups seemingly offer conclusive evidence
that even when social class is held constant, immense
differences of personalities have persisted among these
groups. Among American ethnic groups there is a positive
correlation between sympathy for racial integration and
identification with and involvement in the ethnic
community. There are four other major observations that can
be made about the subject of diversity in the United
States: (1) most Americans feel ambivalent about the fact
of diversity and also about their own particular location
in ethnic geography; (2) precisely because of this
ambivalence about American cultural pluralism, there has
been in the last quarter of a century relatively little in
the way of serious research on the subject despite the fact
that the later stages of the acculturation of the immigrant
groups should have been considered a fascinating subject
for social science; (3) on the whole, American social and
cultural pluralism has worked rather well; and, (4) for a
number of different reasons, there has been a dramatic
increase in interest in America's cultural heterogeneity in
recent years. (Author/JM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Cultural-Influences; Cultural-Traits;
Identification-Psychology; Immigrants-; Individual
Characteristics; Minority-Groups; Racial-Integration;
Social Attitudes; Social-Structure; Whites-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Acculturation-; *Cultural-Pluralism;
*Ethnic-Groups; *Ethnic-Relations; *National-Surveys
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