Social Mobility And Ethnic Identification Among First And Second Generation Greeks In Baltimore

This reader combines theory and research in the study of Greek-American ethnicity and identity. It includes chapters on the histories of early and late immigrants, first- and second-generation Greeks in Chicago, Greek Orthodox and Greek American identity, and Greek-American entrepreneurs. It also discusses continuity and change in the Greek American experience and examines the past, present and future of Greek American ethnicity within the larger framework of multiculturalism.

Social research monograph on acculturation and social mobility of Greek immigrants and their children in the USA, based on a study conducted in the Chicago urban area - covers social stratification within the Greek ethnic group, inter-generational social integration and labour mobility, etc. Bibliography pp. 108 to 111, maps and statistical tables.

Navigating between the shoals of assimilation and acculturation, Dr Collins finds in the Greek community of Houston a group that has been less affected by the host community than sociologists insist happens, and in turn only marginally impressing its ways on the Americans around it. This strong sense of community derives not so much from continued contacts with Greece, but from shared cultural features within the ethnic group itself - language, religion, marriage structures, festivals, etc. These findings support the view of a pluralistic society in America rather than the long prevalent assimilationist view which holds that immigrants automatically mix and lose much of their ethnic identity: the melting-pot theory. This study proposes that Greek-Americans in the society examined are not so much trying to be more American but less Greek in certain respects: e.g., community provincialism and narrowmindedness. The study is supported by illustrations, notes, appendices (including a Greek glossary), bibliography and index.

In this third volume of the author's scholarly work, twenty-five articles address topics important to Greek society, culture, and politics. Topics discussed include ethnonationalism, civil-military relations, class consciousness, and the Olympic Games.

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