"Variables in the Formation of So-Called "Minority Groups

Derivative minority groups are formed when new patterns of social interaction result from the transfer of a sufficient number of individuals from one society to another; and when the host society is not isomorphic with the parent society in regard to important constitutive factors, such as the rural or urban, and the solidaristic or individualistic forms of social organization. Primary minority groups are the result of a new relationship established between two pre-existing functioning social systems through annexation of a territory with its population or more rarely through group migration. In this case lack of isomorphism between parent and host society tends to decrease the chance of the minority group to preserve itself as a functioning social system. Four different species of primary and two species of derivative minority groups are described

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• Change in prejudice. Some notes on the minority problem, with references to the West Indies and Latin America

  Open Access•H Hoetink•Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en…•1963

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