essay
The Italian family in the United States
Social perspectives on behavior • Glencoe, Illinois • Published In 1958 • Pages: 76-81, 620
By: Campisi, Paul J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper discusses the changes that have taken place in the Italian family ranging from the Old World type to the highly acculturated and urbanized American type family. The Old World peasant type family was characteristic of the original immigrants from Italy to the United States during the period of 1890-1910. Their children, the first generation born in America, displayed some degree of acculturation while retaining much of the traditional culture of their parents. This group represents the Italian family in transition. In turn their children, the second generation Italians, represent '…a cross-fertilization of the first-generation Italian family and the American contemporary urban family, with the trend being in the direction of the American type' (p. 76). A table in the text shows the differences between the three types of Italian American families.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Household
- Family relationships
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Sociologist
- 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
- 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)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Paul J. Campisi
- Includes bibliography
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57012960
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans