Effects of Intersection and Consolidation on Social Integration
According to Koentjaraningrat, the assimilation process will occur if the following.
a) There are groups with different cultures.
b) Mutually interact directly and intensively in a long time.
c) The culture of the groups changes and adapts to each other.
In this assimilation there are factors that can encourage or inhibit the occurrence of assimilation between different social groups. As for several factors that can facilitate or encourage assimilation, including the following.
a) Tolerance, openness, mutual respect, and acceptance of cultural elements.
b) A balanced opportunity in the economic field that can reduce social jealousy.
c) Attitude to respect strangers with their culture.
d) Open attitude of the ruling class.
e) There are mixed marriages from different groups (amalgamation).
f) There are external enemies that must be faced together.
Meanwhile, several factors that can inhibit or slow down the assimilation are as follows.
a) Very striking differences, such as differences in race, technology, and economic differences.
b) Lack of knowledge of the truths of other cultures that are being faced.
c) Social suspicion and jealousy towards other groups.
d) Primordial feelings so that their own culture is better than the culture of other nations or groups.
Through assimilation, different social groups in multicultural societies interact and interact directly and intensively in a long time, so that each social group changes and adjusts to each other. Thus integration in society will be created.
Effects of Intersection and Consolidation on Social Integration
Vertical classification of society (stratification / social coating) and horizontally (social differentiation / plurality) do not use bases or factors that are single or self-composed but are cumulative in nature, so frequent intersections (trials) and consolidations (overlapping) ) community membership in sharing social groups that exist in the community.
To understand this issue clearly, it is first necessary to convey the notions of intersection, consolidation, and social groups.
Intersection
Intersection (intersection) in the English-Indonesian Dictionary compiled by Hasan Shadily, among others, is interpreted as the intersection point or the meeting (of two lines) can also be called a cross. While the term section (section) according to the Sociology Dictionary compiled by Soerjono Soekanto, among others, is interpreted as an ethnic group in society, each of which is a section. From this description it can be formulated that intersection is a crossing or meeting point of membership of two or more ethnic groups in social groups in a plural society.
Consolidation
Consolidation in the Big Indonesian Dictionary, defined as prostitution (things, etc.) reinforces or strengthens (communication, unity, etc.). Based on this understanding, consolidation is defined as strengthening or strengthening the membership of community members in social groups through membership overlaps.