essay
Gender roles
Twice a minority : Mexican American women • St. Louis, Missouri • Published In 1980 • Pages: 83-87
By: Melville, Margarita B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Gender roles are one of the principal means of social specialization, and '…the critical factor in developing attitudes and behavior considered characteristic of a specific gender role. If a female has been socialized to believe that she has little control over her occupational options, she is not likely to aspire to the education, experience, and attitudes necessary to expand those options' (p. 83). To illustrate the social specialization aspects of gender roles among Mexican Americans, Melville refers to the works in this file by Limón, Mason, Whiteford, Mackli , and Cotera (1980, documents nos. 54-57, and 64).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [Margarita B. Melville]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 87)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80011177
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans