The organization of ethnocultural attachments among second- generation Germans.

Publisher: Academic Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0330501 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1096-0317 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0049089X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Res

Publication: New York, NY : Academic Press
Original Publication: New York, Seminar Press.

Ethnicity* ; Emigrants and Immigrants* ; European People*; Humans ; Organizations

Recent research suggests that two ethnocultural "identities"-such as ethnic identity or national identity-can be compatible (positively correlated) or in conflict (negatively correlated) within and across immigrant-origin groups. In the present article, I advance a more cognitively oriented framework for using correlational patterns to map how immigrant-origin people organize their attachments to a variety of ethnocultural categories. In explaining the value of this framework, I embark on a multistage empirical illustration. First, I perform a correlational class analysis (CCA) using a sample of second-generation Germans and a vector of 13 identity-related indicators. Second, I use a series of linear regressions and a descriptive visualization to clarify the results of my CCA. Third, I fit two multinomial logistic regressions that demonstrate how social attributes-and specifically, religion and ethnicity-impose constraints on the latent schemes that second-generation Germans follow to organize their ethnocultural "identities."
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest None.
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Keywords: Constraint; Germany; Immigrant identities; Relational class methods

Date Created: 20240209 Date Completed: 20240214 Latest Revision: 20240214

20240214

10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102959

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