Patterns of Interethnic Marriage among American Catholics.

Alba, Richard D.; Kessler, Ronald C.

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Publication Date: 1979-Jun

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Patterns of Interethnic Marriage among American Catholics.

Alba, Richard D.; Kessler, Ronald C.

Social Forces, v57 n4 p1124-40 Jun 1979

In this paper, data from the Catholic Americans study is used to test the hypothesis that there is a powerful ethnic factor in intermarriage and thus that considerable intermarriage will lead only to the emergence of new ethnic boundaries enclosing culturally and socially similar nationality groups. (Author/EB)

Descriptors: Catholics, Ethnicity, Intergroup Relations, Intermarriage, Social Integration, Social Relations, Social Status, Sociocultural Patterns

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Language: English

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