The Mexican American Family

Norma Williams

doi:10.5771/9780759117945

Summary

This is the first book to provide readers with an overall understanding of changing patterns in the extended and conjugal family relationships of the second largest ethnic minority group in the United States.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1990
ISBN-Print: 978-0-930390-26-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7591-1794-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 171
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Who Are the Mexican Americans? No access
2. Mexican Americans and U.S. Society No access
3. The Research Process No access
4. Specific Objectives No access
5. General Objectives No access
6. Analysis of the Data and Presentation of the Findings No access
7. Notes No access
1. The Social Significance of Life-cycle Rituals No access
2. The Nature of Traditionamong Mexican Americans No access
3. Rituals, Tradition, and Sacred Time No access
4. Tradition among Mexican Americans No access
5. The Religious Context No access
6. The Birth Ceremony No access
7. The Marriage Ceremony No access
8. The Funeral Ceremony No access
9. Conclusions No access
10. Notes No access
1. Background Considerations No access
2. Generational Differences No access
3. The Nature of Religion No access
4. The Baptismal Ceremony No access
5. The Marriage Rite No access
6. Funerals No access
7. Conclusions No access
8. Notes No access
1. Background Considerations No access
2. The Baptismal Ceremony No access
3. The Marriage Rite No access
4. Funerals No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. Perceptions of Change Over Time No access
2. Sex-role Expectations No access
3. Role Making by Husbands and Wives: A Clarification of Issues No access
4. Specific Role-making Patterns No access
5. Type I: A Personal (but Limited Social) Identity No access
6. Type II: An Emerging Personal and Social Identity No access
7. Type III: A Personal andSocial Identity (with Reservations) No access
8. Resistance to Role Making No access
9. The Decision-making Process: Clarification of the Issues No access
10. Specific Decisionmaking Areas No access
11. Management of Finances No access
12. Purchase of a Car No access
13. Responsibility for House Repairs No access
14. Purchase of Furniture No access
15. Choice of Friends No access
16. Disciplining of Children No access
17. Conclusions No access
18. Notes No access
1. Perceptions of Change Over Time No access
2. Sex-role Expectations No access
3. The Rolemaking Process No access
4. Type I. The Reluctant Dependent No access
5. Type II. Semi-independent, Family Oriented No access
6. Type III. Semi-independent, Career Oriented No access
7. Type IV. Independent, with Constraints No access
8. Constraints on Role Making No access
9. The Decision-making Process No access
10. Management of Finances No access
11. Purchase of a Car No access
12. Responsibility for House Repairs No access
13. Purchase of Furniture No access
14. Choice of Friends No access
15. Disciplining of Children No access
16. Conclusions No access
1. Empirical Findings No access
2. Rethinking Theoretical Issues in the Study of the Family No access
3. Revisions in Symbolic Interaction Theory No access
4. Ethnicity No access
5. An Alternative to the Assimilationist Model No access
6. Concluding Remarks No access
7. Notes No access
1. Data Collection No access
2. In-depth interviews No access
3. Participant Observation No access
4. The Objectifying Interview No access
5. The Researcher as Insider and Outsider No access
6. Analysis of the Data No access
References No access Pages 160 - 166
Index No access Pages 167 - 171