Assimilation (Sociology) (Topical Term)

Merriam Webster online, June 12, 2018: assimilation (What is the difference between acculturation and assimilation? Acculturation is often tied to political conquest or expansion, and is applied to the process of change in beliefs or traditional practices that occurs when the cultural system of one group displaces that of another)

Encyclopedia of global studies, via Credo reference, June 12, 2018: assimilation (a much contested notion whereby on entering a new country immigrant groups are encouraged, through social and cultural practices and/or political machinations, to adopt the culture, values, and social behaviors of the host nation in order to benefit from full citizenship status; over time, immigrant communities shed their own cultures so that there is no discernible difference between them and the members of the host society)

Encyclopedia of diversity and social justice, via Credo reference, June 12, 2018: assimilation (the more or less orderly adoption adaptation of a migrating group to the ways and institutions of an established host society)

Here are entered works on the absorption of a minority group into the culture, values, and social behaviors of the dominant culture. Works on cultural change caused by prolonged contact between social groups, leading to a change in one or both cultures, are entered under Acculturation. Works on the often unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of elements of a minority culture by members of a dominant culture are entered under Cultural appropriation.

Notes under Acculturation; Cultural appropriation