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HDFS 2300- Exam 4 questions with 100%correct answers
Know the basic demographic characteristics of Latinos (what proportion of the USA Latinos are, what
proportion the three largest Latino subgroups are) (Video 1) - correct answer ✔✔- Latinos are the largest
subculture, larger than African Americans
- Around 15% of the USA population is Latinos
- The 3 largest Latino subgroups are Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban.
- Hispanic: Spain/Portugal. Can be used to refer to people who are Spanish speaking
- Mexican- 66%
- Puerto Rican- 10%
- Cuban- 5%
Understand the issue regarding associations between parenting styles and academic achievement in
Anglo and Latin American families. (Video 2) - correct answer ✔✔- Parenting styles are both described as
strict and permissive (example: parents do not care what child is doing as long as they are inside the
house and safe) in Hispanic families
- Parenting styles do not predict academic achievement in Latinos
- Familism: priority to family
- Dornbusch: authoritarian parents lower levels for euro kids, not for latino kids, was not much of a
relationship between authoritative parenting for latinos.
Understand the points made about educational achievement and whether or not Latino families value
education. (Video 2) - correct answer ✔✔Education is valued, but many families face financial difficulty
and pressure for children to help out
Understand the "culturally specific" predictors of academic success in Latino adolescents. (Video 2) -
correct answer ✔✔- Specifically for Latinos, how connected adolescents feel to other people is a good
predictor of whether or not they stay in school
- In addition, authoritative parenting is NOT correlated with greater academic achievement for Latino
children
, - Authoritarian parenting is not correlated with lower levels of academic achievement for Latino children
Know Baca-Zinn's 4 types of familism. (Video 2) - correct answer ✔✔- The 4 types of familism are
demographic (birth rates, lots of children being born per adult, many are high), structural (who lives in
house), behavioral (who you interact with on a regular basis), and normative (values and supporting
family members/ each other).
Understand the points related to whether (and when) Latino parents are "permissive" versus "strict".
(Video 2) - correct answer ✔✔- Permissive in a safe environment, strict in risky environments.
- Age: Latino parents are permissive parents when they feel that the child does not know better. Around
age 6 or 7 they begin to believe that they should know better
- Contradiction: Latino values when it comes to parenting is different than the values held by the
mainstream
Know the values discussed (familismo/familism, educacion, respeto, etc.) (Video 2) - correct answer ✔✔-
Familism: priority to family
- Respeto: hierarchical relationships, polite to others, respect other people (brothers in the family)
- Educacion: this is a broad term, it is not only academic education but also social education and being
able to interact with other people
Understand the points related to why Latino adults sometimes don't learn English. (Video 3) - correct
answer ✔✔1. Resources (cannot afford to take classes or such to learn the language)
2. Social Stigma (it is embarrassing to not know English)
3. Age (It is hard to learn a new language at an older age, when you are younger you pick things up much
more easy)
4. If you have kids, easy to rely on them (going to have less experience if you don't have the children)
Understand also the possible positive and negative consequences of language brokering. (Video 3) -
correct answer ✔✔- Language brokering is when children facilitate between parents who do not speak
English and society that does speak English
- Positive: Cognitive, Social, Emotional, Cultural, Economic
- Negative: Manipulation of parents, school absence, family role strain, stress, overstepping parent-child
medical boundaries
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