TY - JOUR AU - Pedraza, Silvia PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - AMERICAN IMMIGRATION: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/american-immigration-sociological-perspectives SP - AB - Both the study of immigration and the questions that study raises are at the very root of social science. In this course, we survey the literature that gives evidence of the major concepts and questions with which sociologists and historians have approached the study of immigration. In this seminar, we will seek to focus each session on a different topic: the origin of ethnic stratification, race, and racism; the contrasting theoretical explanations of assimilation and internal colonialism for the reality of group differences in social outcomes in America; the different levels of analysis, micro vs. macro approaches to immigration; the causes and consequences of the differential incorporation of immigrants in American society; immigrants as different social types; and social networks and gender as the link between micro and macro levels of analysis. ER -