book chapter
The extended conjugal family: family-kinship system of Korean immigrants in the United States
Korean-American community : present and future • (14) • Published In 1991 • Pages: 115-133
By: Kim, Kwang Chung, Hurh, Won Moo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Kim asserts that the family-kinship system of Korean immigrants is a critically important social unit in their adaptation to life in the United States. This study, which deals with a sample of the Korean American population in the Chicago, Illinois area, examines the nature of their family-kinship system and analyzes its over-all developmental pattern. Topics given particular attention in this article are: methodology; the nature of kinship contacts; general attitudes of the authors informants toward their kinship group; residential patterns and employment; the pattern of performance of household tasks; and child care activity involving the kinship group.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Household
- Family relationships
- Nuclear family
- Extended families
- Kin relationships
- Child care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Korean Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- 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 chapter
- 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 ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kwang Chung Kim and Won Moo Hurh
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-133)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92210439
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Korean Americans