The rhetoric of acculturation: When integration means assimilation

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 793-813

  Bowskill, Matt ^a   Lyons, Evanthia ^a   Coyle, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCULTURATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL;

EID: 38149042743     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466607X182771     Document Type: Article

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