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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Interviewing in research
- Life history materials
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Ethos
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- 1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Maria grace La Russo
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1
- UM 8811703
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans