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Latino demographic - correct answer ✔✔largest non-dominant group in the USA
what proportion the largest Latino subgroups are - correct answer ✔✔-Latinos 13.5% of the US pop
-66% Mexican American, 9% Puerto Rican, 4% Cuban
Latino parenting styles and academic achievement in Anglo - correct answer ✔✔-no relationship
between authoritative parenting and academic achievement
-authoritarian parenting is related to lower levels of achievement for European but not Latino kids
whether or not Latino families value education - correct answer ✔✔-valued but other needs are pressing
-very high rate of high school dropout (bc family needs)
-high on normative familism
"Culturally specific" predictors of academic success in Latino adolescents - correct answer ✔✔do better
if
-no language barrier
-have high familism
-have high respect (based on hierarchy relationships)
Baca Zinn’s 4 types of familism - correct answer ✔✔-demographic (birth rates, high in demo=more
children being born)
-structural (who lives in the house, high in structural=live with more extended family)
-behavioral (who you interact with and how often you interact)
-normative (values and supporting each other, related to higher levels of achievement)
,familism - correct answer ✔✔higher levels of this is associated with higher levels of academic
achievement (type of collectivism, only associated with family and no other groups)
normative familism - correct answer ✔✔measured in two ways
-ask people how important it is for people to provide support to each other in the family
-asking about behaviors (do you actually supply this support, if are high on normative familism-kids are
more likely to succeed)
latino parents permissive vs strict - correct answer ✔✔-both permissive ad strict
-age: people would more likely to have a collectivt mindset
-contradiction from mainstream perspective (making children stay in their own room if they cannot
sleep, mainstream see that as permissive but latinos see that as strict), more strict when behavior is
outside the home
respecto - correct answer ✔✔people must respect each other and their roles, child with high respect
can relate to others
educacion - correct answer ✔✔mainstream- saying a child is educated meanss they have learned a lot of
terms in school
latinos- saying a child is educated means they are socially skilled, they know how to behave
language - correct answer ✔✔spanish
religion - correct answer ✔✔catholic (conservatice attitude towards courtship)
why latinos sometimes dont learn english - correct answer ✔✔-resources (dont have time or the
economic resources)
-social stigma (you will be ostracized for not knowing english, so let someone help you so you arent face
with stigma)
-age (harder when you are an adult)
-if you have kids, easy to rely on them
,language brokering - correct answer ✔✔-facilitating an interaction between people who speak two
differnet lanaguages
PROS- give children a sense of importance in the family, social, cultural
CONS- stressful for children in situatiosn such as hospital or legal, school absence
how earliest mexican-american families became american citizens - correct answer ✔✔a lot of mexican-
american immigrants have always been here, the boarders just changed. america gained texas, new
mexico and cali and there was many mexi-americans already living here
mexican-american immigrant rates and deportation activities - correct answer ✔✔-when were an
economic boom people tend to come to the US
-when economic downturn people tend to be deported
-theres a desire for cheap labor and people from mexico willing to do it
what type of mexican people tend to immigrate to US and why - correct answer ✔✔-mexican people
who immigrate to the US tend to have lower socialeconomic standing bc its cheaper to move short
distances, where people with higher SES have the resources and money to move longer distances
maschismo - correct answer ✔✔-males are supposed to be tough as the protector and provider
-can be viewed negativly as being selfish, but thats not how its looked at in mexican families
marianismo - correct answer ✔✔-women are supposed to be sexually pure, care for chilren and provide
work within the household
puerto rican families - correct answer ✔✔-highest single-female family rate due to high fertility and high
divorce rates
cuban families - correct answer ✔✔-low fertility rates, but high divorce rates, still see low single-female
family rates due to less children being born and divorce happening more often in no-children families
mexican-american families - correct answer ✔✔-have high fertility rate but low divorce rates, resulting in
less single-female families
, which group had the highest income rate and why - correct answer ✔✔cuban's have the greatest
income rate because the fertility rates are low and can sometimes get married older in life
which group had the lowest income rate - correct answer ✔✔puerto-rican families have the lowest
income rate , an over rep of unemployment, over all low levels of education more expensive housing,
with a continuous, rapid increase of pop all contribute to puerto rico having the largest proportion of
families below the poverty line
harwood socialization goals - correct answer ✔✔-puerto rican: proper demeanor (behavior) want
children to be respectful, obedient and to be approved by overall society
-european: self maximization, want children to be confident develop unique social abilities
harwood child interactions - correct answer ✔✔-puerto rican: physically controlling but associated with
secure attachment
-european: want child to be independent, physically controlling behavior is associated with insecure and
avoidant attachment
harwood organization of social contracts - correct answer ✔✔-puerto ricans: spend a lot more time
visiting extended family members
-european: spend more time with friends than family, move around a lot
harwood development milestones - correct answer ✔✔-puerto rican: why not help the child and feed
them? child and parent function as a unit
-european: 2/3 expect kids to drink from cup by 9 mo and use utensiles by 12 mo, push independence
how citizenship status tends to influence who comes to the mainland from puerto-rico and how they
think about their time in the USA - correct answer ✔✔-younger: want to make money quick so they take
jobs that dont require a lot of skill and then they come back home
-ethnic enclaves: they have citizenship, they stay in emerita and often go back to puerto rico, they dont
want to join mainstream so they end up in puerto rico
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