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In contrast to traditional analyses of minority business, the sociological analysis contends that minority business ownership is
In contrast to traditional analyses of minority business, the sociological analysis contends that minority business ownership is
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2011-01-02
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问题
In contrast to traditional analyses of minority business, the sociological analysis contends that minority business ownership is a group-level phenomenon, in that it is largely dependent upon socialgroup resources for its development. Specifically, this analysis indicates that support networks play a critical role in starting and maintaining minority business enterprises by providing owners with a range of assistance, from the informal encouragement of family members and friends to dependable sources of labor and clientele from the owner’s ethnic group. Such self-help networks, which encourage and support ethnic minority entrepreneurs, consist of "primary" institutions, those closest to the individual in shaping his behavior and beliefs. They are characterized by the face-to-face association and cooperation of persons united by ties of mutual concern. They form an intermediate social level between the individual and larger "secondary" institutions based on impersonal relationships. Primary institutions comprising the support network include kinship, peer, and neighborhood or community subgroups.
A major function of self-help networks is financial support. Most scholars agree that minority business owners have depended primarily on family funds and ethnic community resources for in vestment capital. Personal savings have been accumulated often through frugal living habits that require sacrifices by the entire family and are thus a product of long-term family financial behavior. Additional loans and gifts from relatives forthcoming because of group obligation rather than narrow investment calculation, have supplemented personal savings. Individual entrepreneurs do not necessarily rely on their kin because they cannot obtain financial backing from commercial resources. They may actually avoid banks because they assume that commercial institutions either cannot comprehend the special needs of minority enterprise or charge unreasonably high interest rates.
Within the larger ethinic community, roating credit associations have been used to raise capital. These associations are informal clubs of friends and other trusted members of the ethnic group who make regular contributions to a fund that is given to each contributor in rotation. One author estimates that 40 percent of New York Chinatown firms established during 1900--1950 utilized such associations as their initial source of capital. However, recent immigrants and third or fourth generations of older groups now employ rotating credit associations only occasionally to raise investment funds. Some groups like Black Americans, found other means of financial support for their entrepreneurial efforts. The first Black-operated banks were created in the late nineteenth century as depositories for dues collected from fraternal or lodge groups, which themselves had sprung from Black churches. Black banks made limited investments in other Black enterprises. Irish immigrants in American cities organized many building and loan associations to provide capital for home construction and purchase. They in turn, provided work for many Irish home-building contractor firms. Other ethnic and minority groups followed similar practices in founding ethnic-directed financial institutions.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about rotating credit associations?
选项
A、They were developed exclusively by Chinese immigrants.
B、They accounted for a significant portion of the investment capital used by Chinese immigrants in New York in the early twentieth century.
C、Third- generation members of an immigrant group who started businesses in the 1920’s would have been unlikely to rely on them.
D、Recent immigrants still frequently turn to rotating credit associations instead of banks for investment capital.
答案
C
解析
该题问:下面哪一个是关于互贷组织的正确叙述?A项意为“只由中国移民发展而来”。但文中推不出exclusively。B项意为“占了本世纪前期纽约的中国移民所获投的重要份额”。从最后一段可以找到线索:One author estimates that 40 percent of New York China town firms established during 1900——1950 utilized such associations as their initial source of capital.指出中国城一段时间40%的企业以此作底金,因此B项为正确选项。C项意为“第三代移民不愿依赖此形式”,这是正确的,可以从最后一段找到线索:However, recent immigrants and third or fourth generations of older groups now employ rotating credit associations only occasionally to raise investment funds.但说这些移民20年代开始经商,不符合原文中的"now"。因此此项不正确。D项意为“最近移民仍经常使用它,而不是银行”。从最后一段可找到线索,但最近移民只是偶尔用这种老方式。
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