essay
Social networks and survival strategies: an exploratory study of Mexican American, black, and Anglo female family heads in San Jose, California
Twice a minority : Mexican American women • St. Louis, Missouri • Published In 1980 • Pages: 173-190
By: Wagner, Roland M., Schaffer, Dianne M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article Wagner and Schaffer present a study of female household heads in Mexican American society. Based on pilot studies by Wagner in 1976 and Schaffer in 1978, this paper discusses the long-term sociocultural adjustment processes that women undergo after they become independent family heads, and how these adjustments may be facilitated or complicated by such cultural factors as finding employment, establishing credit, obtaining housing, and dealing with problems of transportation and social relationships. Various adaptive strategies employed by Chicano women in dealing with these problems are described in the text. Frequent references are made throughout this study to comparable cultural data on black and Anglo populations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Friendships
- Celibacy
- Household
- Family relationships
- Kin relationships
- 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
- 1976, 1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Jose, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Roland M. Wagner and Dianne Schaffer
- Includes bibliographical references (p.189-190)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80011177
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans