Social Mobility and Social Distance Among Hungarian Immigrants in Detroit

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2199570
AutoresErdmann Doane Beynon (autor correspondente)
Ano1936
Volume41
Fascículo4
Páginas423-434
Data de publicação1936-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/217184
OpenAlexW2032663772
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5

Hungarian immigrants in Detroit may be divided into two principal classes, based upon the social stratification of Hungary. To the one class belong the members of the intelligentsia, who are relatively few in number owing to the selective character of the migration. To the other class belong both skilled and unskilled laborers and tradesmen. Members of the Intelligentsia who cannot maintain their former occupations or any of commensurate status tend to sever all connection with their fellow-countrymen. Another group consists of those members of the intelligentsia who have been able to maintain their occupational status through the protection of the foreign-language colony. A third group is made up of those who have been able to maintain, or improve, their status outside the Hungarian colony. Among these successful members of the Hungarian intelligentsia there develop hostile attitudes accentuating the class prejudice toward Hungarians of lower status, while at the same time an effort is made to gain acceptance among the socially elite of the American group. Hungarian immigrant society is thus deprived of the leadership of its successful members

Demographic economics · Economics · Elite · Immigration · Intelligentsia · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term) · Social class · Social group · Social mobility · Social science · Social status · Social stratification · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology