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Cultural amalgamation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Cultural amalgamation refers to the process of mixing two cultures to create a new culture. It is often described as a more balanced type of cultural interaction then the process of cultural assimilation. Cultural amalgamation does not involve one group's culture changing another group's culture (acculturation) or one group adopting another group's culture (assimilation). *This creates cultural amalgamations's origins. It is the equivalent to the melting pot theory.

The term cultural amalgamation is often used in studies on the post–civil rights era in the United States and with contemporary multiculturalism and multiracialism studies. For instance, the cultural amalgamation process involved the integration of the European settlers and Indigenous people in North America. In present day, cultural amalgamation occurs with immigration.

Cultural Amalgamation Origins

Cultural amalgamation origins are rooted when individuals from two different cultures encounter each other and combine their influences without either culture dominating the other. Neither culture is required to sacrifice their unique cultural qualities to integrate with the other culture and create a new social structure dynamic. As a result, each group benefits from the other group by sharing their cultural practices and societal advancements in order to develop and establish the new society. Such societal advancements include nonmaterial and material aspects. The material aspects include technology, social capital and cultural capital. Each independent culture remains uniquely different from the other, but retains their exotic and unique features and overall societal beliefs and attributes that make them authentic.

Through cultural amalgamation, social integration occurs as each individual from their group independently represents their unique culture with a mutual appreciation and respect for each member of the other group and their cultural values. The benefits of the cultural exchange are many as it includes all aspects of the other culture in its entirety.

Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu is credited as the social scientist who identified the term social capital, which embodies the following:

• social dynamics
• inventions
• knowledge
• education
• spiritual practices
• language
• artistic expressions
• food
• authentic clothing
• societal laws
• social practices
• social norms  

Pierre Bourdieu’s Social and Cultural Capital

Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of social and cultural capital embodies both nonmaterial and material attributes or assets. Historically, cultural amalgamation aided in enhancing each individual or group’s materiality.In the social sciences, materiality is described as the use of cultural artifacts and how they are incorporated into the receiving culture's use of the new technology. The extent to which the new material received is embraced by the other culture in the merge depends on the contribution and impact the artifact has to enhance the other culture’s society that receives it.  

Pierre Bourdieau focused on social capital and cultural capital in his work. Although he discussed the concept of social capital and its significance in capitalist societies, he also centralized the concept of social capital in his discussions addressing the state of socialist societies. According to Bourdieau, cultural capital takes the form of material objects when the production and consumption of an objectified form of culture embodies an energy and influence from another culture. The objectification of the other culture is not limited to the arts or technology as cultural capital. It also influences societal norms, practices and becomes institutionalized in certified agencies that include, but are not limited to, the areas of education, medicine and law.

Bourdieu emphasized that a prime characteristic of cultural capital takes the form of genetics and hereditability. This creates a source of origin as he felt genetics makes a substantial contribution to inter-generational genetic merging that creates more individuals. Procreating between individuals from the two different cultures creates a hybridization state[*CITE], which Bourdieu describes as a much more subtle, hidden or disguised form for powerful material contributions in comparison to other materialized forms that demonstrate an obvious physical result to attain economic capital gain. The merging of genetics through having babies is when miscegenation occurs and genetic transfer.

Miscegenation

Amalgamation is also known as miscegenation. When different cultural groups come into contact with each other, marriages occur. This in turn creates a genetic mergence through the birth of children. This genetic process, also known as hybridization, results after many generations. https://sociologydictionary.org/amalgamation

See also

• Acculturation
• Cultural appropriation
• Cultural assimilation
• Cultural mosaic
• Cultural pluralism
• Melting Pot

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