essay
Selective acculturation of female Mexican migrants
Twice a minority : Mexican American women • St. Louis, Missouri • Published In 1980 • Pages: 155-163
By: Melville, Margarita B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
As a result of extensive interviews and observations made in 1977, Melville found that Mexican women migrating into the city of Houston, Texas, adapted or acculturated in different degrees and with varying stress to urban life in the United States. This study '…examines the covariation of adjustment (or acculturation) to the aspirations of social class mobility, as well as the factors that facilitated acculturation' (p. 155). These factors include: (1) attitudinal facilitators, or the attitudes and values that promote the readiness on the individual to adapt and accept elements of culture different from one's own; (2) cognitive facilitators, or the willingness of the individual to acquire knowledge and information which would promote familiarity with the majority culture; (3) behavioral facilitators, or the activities that promote positive contact with the majority culture; and (4) brokers, who are persons or institutions that intervene to aid an individual in becoming familiar with the majority culture (p160). Each of these factors is explained and illustrated more fully in the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural identity and pride
- Classes
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1977
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Houston, Texas, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margarita B. Melville
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80011177
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans