Ethnic capital and intermarriage: a case study of American Jews.

From: Sociology of Religion | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: Fishman, Sylvia Barack; Philips, Benjamin T. | Copyright information

Previous studies of ethnicity have focused on the role played by structural factors in assimilation and related processes. The utility of human and social capital in explaining analogous religious phenomena (e.g., religious switching and apostasy) suggests that similar actor-centered explanations may advance the understanding of ethnicity. We propose a model of ethnicity that integrates existing structure-centered approaches with the concepts of ethnic human and social capital in a soft rat...

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