Throughout the past century, assimilation has been the hegemonic theory of ethnic group relations in sociology, and Robert E. Park is generally considered to be the key figure associated with the articulation of assimilation's canonical formulation. Based on a careful reading of Park's main essays on assimilation, this article argues that those who associate his position with the melting pot (with its assumption of the eradication of ethnic traits and ties), the race-relations cycle, or a straight-line process of incorporation misconstrue his views. This article is in part corrective and in part revisionist insofar as it is intended to indicate aspects of Park's theory that have particular relevance to current sociological efforts to understand the implications of assimilation in multiethnic liberal democracies.
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机译：在过去的一个世纪中，同化一直是社会学中族群关系的霸权理论，而罗伯特·E·帕克（Robert E. Park）通常被认为是与同化的规范表达相联系的关键人物。基于对帕克关于同化的主要文章的仔细阅读，本文认为那些将他的立场与大熔炉（假设其消除了种族特征和联系），种族关系循环或直线联系起来的人公司成立的过程曲解了他的观点。本文的部分内容是纠正性的，而部分方面则是修正主义的，其目的是表明帕克理论的各个方面与当前的社会学努力特别相关，这些努力旨在理解同化对多民族自由民主制的影响。
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