Moral Life on the Cultural Frontier

Evidence from the Experience of Immigrants in Modern America

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9956964
AutoresM P Baumgartner, Mary Baumgartner (William Paterson University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1998
Volumen31
Número2
Páginas155-179
Fecha de publicación1998-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Focus (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0237 • E-ISSN: 2162-1128
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00380237.1998.10571099
OpenAlexW2005599285
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas42

This paper reports findings from an ethnographic investigation into how immigrants to the contemporary United States manage grievances against people culturally different from themselves, including individuals from the majority population, other immigrants and members of American-born minority groups. Two principal patterns emerge: first, that a high degree of harmony can and does exist between immigrants and other people, but that it is a harmony based largely on mutual avoidance and self-segregation rather than intercultural solidarity and support, and second, that immigrants react differently to offenders from the majority population than to those who, like themselves come from culturally unconventional backgrounds. The reasons for these patterns are explored, and implications for the moral order of diverse communities are considered

Cultural diversity · Ethnography · Frontier · Harmony (color · Immigration · Political science · Population · Sociology · Solidarity · Anthropology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses