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In contrast to traditional analyses of minority business, the sociological analysis contends that minority business owner ship i
In contrast to traditional analyses of minority business, the sociological analysis contends that minority business owner ship i
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2010-02-20
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In contrast to traditional analyses of minority business, the sociological analysis contends that minority business owner ship 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 characterised 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 sub groups.
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 investment 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 ethnic community, rotating 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 them selves 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 the Irish building and loan associations mentioned in the last paragraph?
选项
A、They were started by third or fourth-generation immigrants.
B、They originated as off shoots of church-related groups.
C、They frequently helped Irish entrepreneurs to finance business net connected with construction.
D、They contributed to the employment of many Irish construction workers.
答案
D
解析
该题问:下面哪一关于爱尔兰建筑贷款团体的说法可以从文中得出?A项意为“由第三、四代移民启动”,在本文没有提及。B项意为“从教会下属机构发源”,这是文中所提黑人组织的内容。C项意为“还经常帮助爱尔兰企业投资和建筑无关的部门”。从文中叙述看不出在建筑之外此组织有何作为。D项意为“帮助许多爱尔兰建筑工人取得了工作”,从最后一段中可以找到线索:...They in turn,provided work for many Irish home -building contractor firms.因此,可知D项为正确选项。
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