acculturation and assimilation: a clarification

The rhetoric of acculturation: when integration means assimilation.

Viewing traditional acculturation literature through a social constructionist lens, the present paper identifies a number of limitations with this research. A discourse analytic approach to acculturation is offered as a means of addressing some of these issues. Drawing on examples taken from British print media debate surrounding the issue of faith schooling in the UK, an analysis is presented ...

Segmented Assimilation Revisited: Types of Acculturation and Socioeconomic Mobility in Young Adulthood.

This article examines the debate between key theories of immigrant assimilation by exploring the effect of acculturation types - dissonant, consonant, and selective - on socioeconomic outcomes in young adulthood. Drawing on survey data from the Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York, we show that while all three types occur, dissonant acculturation is the exception, not the norm, ...

Coordination: A Clarification

Ever since Hayek’s 1937 classic, “Economics and Knowledge,” Austrians and other sympathetic writers have rightly emphasized study of the coordination properties of an economic system. To this end, they have claimed a distinction between the Hayekian focus on coordination and the neoclassical focus on equilibrium and efficiency. Although genuine and important, this distinction has yet to be sati...

Clarification

Thrombotic risks: a clarification.

To the Editor: Rogier M. Bertina has written a clear, timely, and authoritative review of factor V Leiden and other coagulation factor mutations affecting thrombotic risk (1). I was confused by the fact that the sum of genetic defects in inherited thrombophilia plus the cases with unknown cause add up to 109.7% (Table 1 of reference 1). This could occur due to multiple defects in individual pat...