The transplanted then and now
The reorientation of immigration studies from the Chicago School to the new social history1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2145686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Kivisto (0000-0003-3992-0659, Augustana College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 455-481 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.1990.9993685 |
| OpenAlex | W1994947563 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 90 |
This article argues that assimilationist theory (seen as a specific instance of process theory) had a profound impact on immigration studies in the United States from the 1920s into the 1960s, but that this mode of conceptualization has been subsequently challenged theoretically by developments in social history. Specifically, exegetical evidence is offered for viewing the challenge as hinging on a reconceptualization of the meaning of culture and the role of social actors in creating their own history. The case is made by examining in depth two exemplars of immigration research published in different time-periods: for the assimilationist model, W. I. Thomas et al.'s Old World Traits Transplanted, and from the new social history, John Bodnar's The Transplanted. To illustrate the impact of assimilationist thought on scholarship for nearly a half century, analyses are provided of a select number of 'classic' studies written between the respective appearances of the two aforementioned books. Notes Earlier versions of portions of this article were presented at the 1990 Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting in Chicago and the 1990 International Sociological Association meeting in Madrid
Conceptualization · Cultural assimilation · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Immigration · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
Foreigners, Crime and Changing Mobilities
Spatial Mobility in Social Theory
Is it Antislavic racism, or how to speak about liminality, stigma, and racism in Europe
Hope and despair
Race, Region and the Territorial Politics of Immigration in the US
The assimilation?pluralism debate
Stanford M. Lyman's sociology of race and ethnic relations
The fall of “the other half of the sky”? chinese immigrant women in the new york area
How Do Places Matter? A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethnic Economies in Los Angeles and New York City
Divided Fates
Deciphering the ‘Ethnic Penalty’ of Immigrants in Western Europe
A dialectic of racial enlightenment
What is the canonical theory of assimilation
Immigrants and Ethnics
The Uprooted
Lives of their own
The changing face of inequality
The Past Before Us
Sociology and public affairs
Ethnicity in the United States
The transplanted
Albion's seed
Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918
Robert E. Park
Ethnic identity
Reliving the past
Beyond ethnicity
That Noble Dream
Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919
The Interpretation of Cultures
Freedom and control in modern society
Assimilation in American life
The Invention of ethnicity
Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations
Ethnic Leadership in America
An American Dilemma
The Life Histories of W. I. Thomas and Robert E. Park
The Immigrant in American History
Culture and Democracy in the United States
Peasants and Strangers
Poverty and Progress
The Uprooted
Ethnic Studies at Chicago, 1905-45
The One and the Many
European Americans
The Transplanted-A History of Immigrants in Urban America
American Immigrants and Their Generations
Problems and Possibilities in the Study of American Immigration and Ethnic History
Americans in the Making
The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilization
Ethnicity, Pluralism, and Race
The New History and the Old
The State of American History
Ethnic Studies at Chicago, 1905-45
Contadini in Chicago
Immigrants, Immigrant Neighborhoods, and Ethnic Identity
For Bread with Butter
The Reinterpretation of American History and Culture
The Ethnic Experience in Pennsylvania
Urban Working-Class Political Behavior and Theories of American Electoral Politics, 1870-1940
Hobbesian Populism
Immigration
Immigration and Modernization
You Are Too Sentimental
Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations
The structure of pluralism
The Chicago School
Quest for an American Sociology
Haven in a heartless world
Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations
The One and the Many
Identifying Identity
On History, Sociology and Historical Relevance
Culture in Action
The Passing of the Great Race
The Revival of Narrative
Germans in the New World
Source Book for Social Origins
Virgin Land or Virgin Mary? Studying the Ethnicity of White Americans
History and Criticism
Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
Early American Sociology and the Polish Peasant
The Chicago School of Sociology, 1918-1933
Ethnicity
The Significance of Immigration in American History
Perspectives on ethnicity
Symbolic ethnicity
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2024 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |