Book
Growing up and growing old in Italian-American families
Rutgers University Press • New Brunswick, New Jersey • Published In 1985 • Pages:
By: Johnson, Colleen Leahy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of Italian Americans investigates various dimensions of ethnic group membership as manifested in family organization. The information was collected from interviews with over four hundred individuals living in the northeastern city of 'Easton' (a pseudonym). The research focuses on the point in the middle of the family cycle when loyalties are tested. The document is divided into three parts. The first part deals with a description of the research setting, the history of the Italian American immigration to the United States, the integration of the immigrants into mainstream American society, and the major structural variables associated with family differences. Part 2 describes the dominant characteristics of the average Italian American family as it differs from intermarried and Protestant families. The final section of this work, part 3, analyzes the processes by which ethnicity continues to determine the configuration of the Italian American family.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- External migration
- Social relationships and groups
- Household
- Family relationships
- Old age dependency
- Activities of the aged
- Status and treatment of the aged
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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 ; 1991
- 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)
- northeastern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Colleen Leahy Johnson
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. [231]-238
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans