Collection of definitions of different terms and words from around different fields.
Dissonant Acculturation Dissonant Acculturation occurs when children learn the new culture and loss their home country culture with a pace faster than their parents. This happens when the social capital in the immigrants’ receiving country is absent or rare. Children …
Consonant Acculturation Consonant acculturation occurs when the children and parents both learn American culture and gradually abandon their home language and “old country” ways at about the same pace. For example children learn English at the same age as of …
Segmented Assimilation Segmented assimilation refers to the prospective outcomes developing out of adjusting to particular groups in the host society. It suggests that people adapt to certain societal norms, but not others because of the (racial, class etc.) groups they …
Define “Bounded Solidarity” Harmony and unity among a group of individuals because of the moral imperative where individuals help and support others with the hope that being part of that group, they can also be target to the same issues …
Define “Reciprocity Exchange” Reciprocity exchange is defined as the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, especially liberties and privileges established by one society, country or organization. In the context of social capital, reciprocity exchange means when individuals …
Define “Enforceable Trust” Enforceable trust in the context of social capital is the trust that is enforced by the social structure in a particular society. While living in a particular society (social structure), the individuals of the society are obliged …
Define “Value Introjection” Introjection refers to the process of replicating the behaviors, traits and other fragments of the surrounding world into oneself. “Value Introjection” thus refers to the process by which an individual replicates or incorporates into him/herself, the values, …
Define “Social Capital” Social capital refers to networks of relationships among group of people living and working in a particular society such that these networks of relationships enable their society to function effectively. Portes and Sensenbrenner (1993) defines Social Capital …
Define the term “Nikkeijin” “Nikkeijin” is a term that refers to Japanese and their descendants who emigrated from Japan in the past. Hence “Nikkeijins” can be defined as ethnic Japanese communities abroad i.e. they do not include Japanese who live …
Define the term “Dekasegi” Dekasegi means “away from home” or “temporary migrant worker”. This is a term which has been used to refer to unskilled people who migrated from Brazil to Japan to escape economic instability in Brazil and take …