Catalogue of Acculturation Constructs

Descriptions of 126 Taxonomies, 1918-2003

Bibliographic Data

ID5768641
AuthorsFloyd W Rudmin (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume8
Issue1
Publication date2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOnline Readings in Psychology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2307-0919 • E-ISSN: 2307-0919
PublisherGrand Valley State University Libraries - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.9707/2307-0919.1074
OpenAlexW1969794919
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited97

Acculturation refers to the processes by which individuals, families, communities, and societies react to inter-cultural contact. Advances in communication and transportation technologies, and increasing migration pressures due to demographic, economic, environmental, human rights, and security disparities, make acculturation one of the most important topics for applied research in cross-cultural psychology. However, progress in acculturation research has been frustrated by our inabilities to pit theories against each other in meaningful ways, to summarize results by meta-analytic methods, or to improve constructs and scales all because we have been unaware of the interdisciplinary breadth of acculturation research and its historical depth. This annotated bibliography of acculturation taxonomies presents an accessible historical foundation to the literature on acculturation. The most ancient psychological discussion of acculturation appears to be that of Plato in 348 BC. In the early 19th century, DeTocqueville speculated about acculturation processes in Europe and America. The word "acculturation" was first used in 1880, and by 1900 scholars were already writing histories of acculturation theory. G. Stanley Hall was the first psychologist to write about acculturation, and Thomas and Znaniecki presented the first full psychological theory in 1918. Since then, more than 100 different taxonomies of acculturation have been published, most of them cited and summarized here

Acculturation · Cultural Differences and Values · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

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