Packet 1: Tossup 14

Specific term required. David Lockwood introduced a distinction between “social” and “systems” types of this concept. Increasing two types of this concept underpins the Tinto model of student retention. John Braithwaite proposed a type of “shaming” named for this concept. In a model created by John Berry, this concept results from [emphasize] both high contact with a “host” culture [emphasize] and high cultural maintenance. High levels of this concept result in “altruistic” suicides while low levels of it result in “egoistic” (-5[1])suicides according to Emile Durkheim, who argued that Catholics’ higher levels of it resulted in lower suicide rates. Along with adaptation, goal attainment, and latency, this concept makes up Talcott Parsons’s AGIL (“A-G-I-L”) paradigm. For 10 points, what concept, less intense than assimilation, is undergone by immigrants adapting to a new country? ■END■ (10[1])

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