Communication Between Cultures

Besides supplying the child’s basic physical needs, the family is the first“carrier”of the essential information that the child ...

That is, racial and ethnic diversity among American families and the diversity result- ing from immigration have changed the def ...

Nuclear Families Nuclear families, usually referred to as“two-generation families,”make up the pattern found in most of the Unit ...

Globalization and Families Earlier we noted that for the last twentyyears, families in the United States have been in a period o ...

take low-paying jobs in Hong Kong, Singapore, Middle East nations, and many other parts of the world in order to support their f ...

Economic Function The second function of families is to supply children with the necessities of life (food, clothing, shelter). ...

Identity Function As you learned earlier in this chapter, people have multiple identities—individual, national, occupational, cu ...

Gender Roles One of the most important family patterns is the teaching of accepted gender roles. As Wood notes,“Families, partic ...

support for this view, revealing that different societies allocate different tasks and duties to men and women and that males an ...

Having examined some of the research involving changes in the perception of gen- der in the United States, we are now ready to e ...

respectable Japanese women. Hall, referring to work by Takie Sugiyama Lebra, offers a clear depiction of that treatment: The tra ...

He provides for the family’s physical needs and monitors and controls all mem- bers’participation in the world outside the home. ...

The type of family described above has for thousands of years produced a family dynamic where lines to hierarchy and authority a ...

You will recall that when we looked at gender issues and child-rearing practices as observed in some Asian cultures, you could s ...

of female circumcision. In Egypt, many parents are sending their daughters to col- lege so that they might secure high-status jo ...

at first) values associated with individualism or collectivism. The enactment of these lessons takes a variety of forms. Let us ...

As is the case with much of culture, the collective view of family has deep histori- cal roots. Regarding Mexico, for example, R ...

emphasizes the importance of the group. Arab culture teaches that the needs of the group are more important than the needs of on ...

get the most out of approval of others while trying to avoid disapproval.”^119 Chu and Ju make much the same point:“An important ...

individuals 85 and older, 22.7 percent lived in multigenerational households. Of younger adults, ages 25 to 34, 23.6 percent liv ...