单词 | malintegration |
释义 | malintegrationn. The unsuccessful or defective assimilation of heterogeneous elements into a whole, as of communities within a society. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > unsuccessful or defective assimilation malintegration1938 1938 R. K. Merton in Amer. Sociol. Rev. 3 673 All and any devices which promise attainment..would be permitted in this hypothetical polar case. This constitutes one type of cultural malintegration. 1951 T. Parsons et al. in T. Parsons & E. A. Shils Toward Gen. Theory Action i. i. 22 The nature and sources of the mal-integration of cultural patterns are as important to the theory of action as the integration itself. 1965 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 30 15 The malintegration of cultural goals and institutionalized means falls with different impact upon persons located at different points in the social structure. 1977 R. Holland Self & Social Context v. 178 The gradual, exploratory development of interdisciplinary work..tends to be at the cost of administrative complexity and..serious malintegration. 1986 Sociol. Abstr. Suppl. 140. 16/2 Their visible minority status results in malintegration of even third and subsequent generations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1938 |
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