|
下面为大家整理的是一篇关于minority business的SAT文章阅读模拟题，后面附有相关题目和正确答案。SAT文章阅读考试涉及到的类别很多，需要大家很多的练习。下面大家就和小编一起来看看详细内容吧。 In contrast to traditional analyses of minority busi- ness, the sociological analysis contends that minority business ownership is a group-level phenomenon, in that it is largely dependent upon social-group 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 owners 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 or her 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 secondaryinstitutions 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 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 finan- cial 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 neces- sarily rely on their kin because they cannot obtain finan- cial backing from commercial resources. They may actu- ally 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 asso- ciations are informal clubs of friends and other trusted members of the ethnic group who make regular contri- butions 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 nine- teenth century as depositories for dues collected from fraternal or lodge groups, which themselves had sprung from Black churches. Black banks made limited invest- ments in other Black enterprises. Irish immigrants in American cities organized many building and loan asso- ciations 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. | 
