A Lack of Security or of Cultural Capital? Acculturative Conservatism in the Naming Choices of Early 20th-Century US Jews

Past research demonstrates a marked tendency toward “acculturative conservatism,” whereby immigrants select given names for their children that are established—that is, popular in an earlier generation of the native population. Prior research has generally understood such conservatism as reflecting...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Jiayin, Obukhova, Elena, Zuckerman Sivan, Ezra W
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109436
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6271-0708