Book
A portrait of third generation Italian-American family life: interviews and observations with six families
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1991 • Pages:
By: La Russo, Maria grace.
Abstract
La Russo presents a portrait of the Italian American familyin the early 1980s. The information was obtained through participant observation and open-ended interviewing with six middle-class third generation families (Introductory, p.viii). In three of these families both parents were employed in full-time jobs, while in the other three, more traditional in structure, the husband was employed as a full time-wage earner and the wife was a homemaker. Three subjects were selected as the focus of this study: marital roles, child socialization, and kinship relations. La Russo's author's findings indicate that all six families have departed from traditional patterns of family life, generally associated with the earlier generations of Italian Americans, and instead have adopted a more mainstream American cultural pattern emphasizing educational achievement and economic upward mobility.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Educator
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1991
- Field Date
- No date
- Coverage Date
- 1980s
- Coverage Place
- New York, N.Y., United States
- Notes
- [by] Maria grace La Russo
- UM 8811703
- Includes bibliography
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1
- LCSH
- Italian Americans