Instead of the traditional route of upward mobility as a way to achieve assimilation, immigrants now follow a variety of different pathways. sociologists call this

Segmented assimilation

Explanation:

Segmented assimilation refers to a  situation when immigrants from different regions that came into a certain country decided to assimilate with the dominant culture in their own unique way.

Each of those immigrants will combine both their own culture and dominant culture and forms their own unique combinations rather than forming one exact same culture.

answer; disconfirm the catharsis theory;