Maternal Response to Success and Failure of Anglo-American, Mexican-American, and Mexican Children

1975 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer Kagan ◽  
Philip B. Ender
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Maternal Response ◽  
Mexican Children ◽  
Anglo American

Ecology and the Acculturation of Cognitive and Social Styles Among Mexican American Children

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer Kagan
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Historical Ecology ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Mexican Children ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Acculturation Theory ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
American Children ◽  
The Individual

The role of ecology and acculturation is examined from the standpoint of cognitive and social styles of Mexican American children. Review of research indicates that rural Mexican children have more cooperative and field-dependent social and cognitive styles than urban Anglo American children. Mexican American children living in urban settings differ in that they tend to acculturate to the more field-independent and competitive cognitive and social styles common in urban settings. Yet these Mexican American children differ from Anglo Americans in ways predicted by traditional urbanization theories. However, a close examination of the traditional urbanization theories of Simmel, Redfield, Milgram, and Inkeles shows that these theories are limited in their usefulness in explaining the acculturation process of Mexican Americans. The theories are shown to be too global and to ignore important cultural factors such as family and kinship ties and socialization practices of Mexican Americans. A theory of acculturation that is both multifactorial and pluralistic is advanced. It is held that a multifactorial acculturation theory must account for the range in historical ecology among immigrants and the associated range in intensity and quality of their adherence to certain Mexican cultural institutions and socialization practices. Such a theory, by being pluralistic, will also recognize that acculturation will take different forms among different groups of Mexican Americans, depending on the assimilation pressures of their ecology and how these pressures are resisted. A theory must also be process oriented, which means that it must be capable of describing the psychological mechanisms by which the influence of ecology is felt by the individual. Suggestions for research are offered and social policies deriving from acculturation research are discussed.

Chapter 6. Mexican American and Anglo American parents of the mentally Ill: Attitudes and participation in family support groups

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-163
Author(s):  
Louis Medvene ◽  
Keh-Ming Lin ◽  
Agnes Wu ◽  
Ricardo Mendoza ◽  
Norma Harris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Anglo American
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