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- Title
Sociological Ambivalence: The Case of East European Peasant-Immigrant Workers in America, 1880s-1930s.
- Authors
Morawska, Ewa
- Abstract
The paper develops an understanding of the tensions experienced by East European immigrants by drawing on the concept of "sociological ambivalence": being pulled in cognitively and emotionally opposed directions generated by the social situations in which the actors are located. Using a variety of sources created by East European peasant-immigrants themselves-letters, diaries, poems, prayers, newspaper articles, and oral history collections-the paper discusses four kinds of sociological ambivalence experienced by the immigrants: (1) resulting from the multiplicity of "interests" incorporated in different social positions occupied by the same person; (2) induced by the opportunity structure characterized by the disjunction between culturally prescribed aspirations and socially structured avenues for realizing these goals; (3) generated by conflicting values and goals contained in a group's cultural system and in normative role expectations prescribed for its members; and (4) resulting from individuals' simultaneous orientation to several different sets of cultural values and reference groups.
- Subjects
EASTERN Europe; AMBIVALENCE; SOCIOLOGY of emotions; IMMIGRANTS; PEASANTS; SOCIAL structure
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1987, Vol 10, Issue 3, p225
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00988988