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Title: Socioeconomic and Cultural Incorporation and Family Behavior Among Mexican Americans
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Bean, Frank D. Berg, Ruth R. Van Hook, Jennifer V. W. |
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Socioeconomic and Cultural Incorporation and Family Behavior Among Mexican Americans Presented: Washington, DC, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 1995 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Education; Family Environment; Family Structure; Family Studies; Hispanics; Marital Disruption; Sex Roles; Social Roles; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Develops and tests hypotheses about how processes of socioeconomic and cultural incorporation might work individually and in combination to explain marital disruption patterns among Mexican-origin women in the US in relation both to those of non-Hispanic whites and blacks and to those of Mexican women. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and Current Population Survey data permitting three-generational breakdowns of the Mexican-origin population are used to examine how the effect on marital disruption of education, an important indicator of socioeconomic incorporation, varies by generational status, an important indicator of cultural incorporation. The results indicate an educational/marital disruption relationship among native-born Mexican Americans that is both negative and similar in level to that of non-Hispanic whites, but an education/disruption relationship among Mexican immigrants that is positive but lower in level. It is argued that these results do not support the idea that cultural factors explain Mexican-origin marital disruption patterns, but rather the ideas that: (1) the limited socioeconomic opportunities available to lower-socioeconomic-status women increase the risk of disruption among both Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites; and (2) the family adaptation strategies of lower-socioeconomic-status Mexican-origin newcomers to the US, because they involve reliance on and support for strong conjugal relationships, foster low rates of divorce and separation. (Copyright 1995, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) |
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Bean, Frank D., Ruth R. Berg and Jennifer V. W. Van Hook. "Socioeconomic and Cultural Incorporation and Family Behavior Among Mexican Americans." Presented: Washington, DC, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 1995. |