essay
Growing up and its price in three Puerto Rican subcultures
Portrait of a society : readings on Puerto Rican sociology • Rio Piedras • Published In 1972 • Pages: 233-275
By: Wolf, Kathleen L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper is concerned with the training of children in three different classes on the island of Puerto Rico. These three classes are rural farmers in the community of Manicaboa, sugar workers in Barrio Poyal, and the middle class of the small rural town of San José. The material presented, although not comparable in all aspects, shows the operation of very different psychological dynamics in subcultures found on the same small island (p. 233). This diversity, according to the author, indicates that there is no uniform Puerto Rican personality, despite the fact that cultural traditions are fairly uniform. In the investigation of the three classes, Wolf pays special attention to their respective psychological problems. This document contains a wealth of information on household composition and family relationships, sex status, infant and child care practices, socialization processes, pregnancy and childbirth, personality development, and various forms of psychological adjustment in the society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Adjustment processes
- Personality development
- Gender status
- Classes
- Ethics
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Household
- Family relationships
- Conception
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth
- Infant feeding
- Infant care
- Child care
- Childhood activities
- Cleanliness training
- Sex training
- Aggression training
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Island)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caribbean
- 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.
- 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; 1993, 2012
- 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)
- Manicabao, Barrio Poyal, and San José, Puerto Rico
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Kathleen L. Wolf
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- none
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans