Minority-Group Criminality and Cultural Integration

Minority-group criminality and cultural integration.

Group status drives majority and minority integration preferences.

This research examined preferences for national- and campus-level assimilative and pluralistic policies among Black and White students under different contexts, as majority- and minority-group members. We targeted attitudes at two universities, one where 85% of the student body is White, and another where 76% of students are Black. The results revealed that when a group constituted the majority...

Community and minority group relations.

Community and minority group relations is currently one of the central issues in Health Services Organization. Dick Weinerman came to grips with aspects of this problem area throughout his career. He advocated a significant role for unionized plantation workers in the administration of a proposed health services plan for Hawaii in 1952. (25)t In 1960, he discussed and strongly encouraged Labor'...

Cultural Differences and Institutional Integration∗

If citizens of different countries belonging to an economic union adhere to different and deeply rooted cultural norms, when these countries interact their leaders may find it impossible to agree on effi cient policies, especially in hard times. Political leaders’ actions are bound to express policies that do not violate these norms. This paper provides a simple positive theory and a compelling...

Cultural Integration in Europe:

We explore economic and cultural paths of integration for different immigrant group in Italy, from the first to the second generation and across age cohorts, compared to the natives. We document the gap of immigrants with respect of natives in terms of education, employment and female participation rates, and to a lesser extent in terms of marriage, divorce, inter-ethnic marriage and completed ...