Assimilation

Simons, 1900
That process of adjustment or accommodation which occurs between the members of two different races, if their contact is prolonged and if the necessary psychic conditions are present.

Simons, S.E., Social assimilation, American Journal of Sociology, 6, 1900:791



Park and Burgess, 1968
A process of interpenetration and fusion in which persons or groups acquire the memories, sentiments, and attitudes of other persons or groups, and, by sharing their experience and history, are incorporated with them in a common cultural life.

Park and Burgess, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (IESS). Vol. 1, McMillan Company and The Free Press, USA 1968:438

