The student of ethnic factors in general and of the Jewish family especially is handicapped by the fact that we have no national institute for the study and protection of family life where multidiscipline or integrated studies may be pooled; no central institute for the study of ethnic relations; no facilities or center for the study of Judaica and relations between Jews and non-Jews similar to those of other groups. This article calls attention to ethnic parallels and differences in acculturation among three selected groups and indicates needed areas for study.
{"title":"Ethnic family patterns; the American Jewish family.","authors":"B B WESSEL","doi":"10.1086/220237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/220237","url":null,"abstract":"The student of ethnic factors in general and of the Jewish family especially is handicapped by the fact that we have no national institute for the study and protection of family life where multidiscipline or integrated studies may be pooled; no central institute for the study of ethnic relations; no facilities or center for the study of Judaica and relations between Jews and non-Jews similar to those of other groups. This article calls attention to ethnic parallels and differences in acculturation among three selected groups and indicates needed areas for study.","PeriodicalId":86247,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of sociology","volume":"53 6","pages":"439-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/220237","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27732864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural configurations are the approved rules or sentiments, existing at a covert level, which motivate the overt behavior of individuals and which integrate it into meaningful patterns. Such configurations, when applied to the family, express its value system. Eight configurations are suggested which give the American family its character. The family is emphasized as a social rather than as a functional group, in which individual values are of primary importance.
{"title":"Culture configurations in the American family.","authors":"J SIRJAMAKI","doi":"10.1086/220242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/220242","url":null,"abstract":"Cultural configurations are the approved rules or sentiments, existing at a covert level, which motivate the overt behavior of individuals and which integrate it into meaningful patterns. Such configurations, when applied to the family, express its value system. Eight configurations are suggested which give the American family its character. The family is emphasized as a social rather than as a functional group, in which individual values are of primary importance.","PeriodicalId":86247,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of sociology","volume":"53 6","pages":"464-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/220242","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27732869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peopled by both easterners and southerners, the Middle West developed a culture that embodied elements from both groups. The East contributed leadership and an ordered community life; the South, a desire for social liberty. The combination of these qualities in a productive land led to the development of a middel-class society, solidly anchored in secure, conservative, self-satisfied middle-class families. The essentially rural character of the Middle West has developed independent, semipatriarchial families. Immigrant families have come to the cities, but in quantities that can be absorbed.
{"title":"Regional family patterns; the Middle Western family.","authors":"R S CAVAN","doi":"10.1086/220234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/220234","url":null,"abstract":"Peopled by both easterners and southerners, the Middle West developed a culture that embodied elements from both groups. The East contributed leadership and an ordered community life; the South, a desire for social liberty. The combination of these qualities in a productive land led to the development of a middel-class society, solidly anchored in secure, conservative, self-satisfied middle-class families. The essentially rural character of the Middle West has developed independent, semipatriarchial families. Immigrant families have come to the cities, but in quantities that can be absorbed.","PeriodicalId":86247,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of sociology","volume":"53 6","pages":"430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/220234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27732862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The family is the only socially recognized relation for childbearing and the essential agency for child rearing, sociolization, and introducing the child to the culture of the society, thereby shaping the basic character structure of our culture and forming the child's personality. The family is the primary agency for protecting physical and mental health. Moreover, the family must provide what adult men and women need for their fulfilment as personalities. Since the familyis being revealed as the source of much of human frustration and defeat, the improvement of family life has become socially imperative. A broad national policy for family life is needed, which will reaffirm its place and function and direct all other interests and activities to that goal.
{"title":"What families do for the nation.","authors":"L K FRANK","doi":"10.1086/220243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/220243","url":null,"abstract":"The family is the only socially recognized relation for childbearing and the essential agency for child rearing, sociolization, and introducing the child to the culture of the society, thereby shaping the basic character structure of our culture and forming the child's personality. The family is the primary agency for protecting physical and mental health. Moreover, the family must provide what adult men and women need for their fulfilment as personalities. Since the familyis being revealed as the source of much of human frustration and defeat, the improvement of family life has become socially imperative. A broad national policy for family life is needed, which will reaffirm its place and function and direct all other interests and activities to that goal.","PeriodicalId":86247,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of sociology","volume":"53 6","pages":"471-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27732870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Families, white nonfarm in the United States in 1940, broken by separations and divorce were in percentages twice as numerous when husbands had not finished the elementary school as when husbands were college graduates. But this increased family unity may be owing to income rather than to education, since income is more highly correlated with family unity than is education.
{"title":"Education, income, and family unity.","authors":"W F OGBURN","doi":"10.1086/220244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/220244","url":null,"abstract":"Families, white nonfarm in the United States in 1940, broken by separations and divorce were in percentages twice as numerous when husbands had not finished the elementary school as when husbands were college graduates. But this increased family unity may be owing to income rather than to education, since income is more highly correlated with family unity than is education.","PeriodicalId":86247,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of sociology","volume":"53 6","pages":"474-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/220244","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27732871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Americans are notorious for their individualism, mobility, and frequent divorces. These characteristics are accentuated in the Far West. Americans also love their homes, have small families, feel that education is essential to democracy, are hospitable, and spend large amounts for recreation. On the Pacific Coast homeownership is more widespread, families are samller, the percentage of college graduates is greater, people are more hospitable, and families spend more for recreation than in any other section. The western family is probably more American than is the family of any other region.
{"title":"Regional family patterns; the Western family.","authors":"N S HAYNER","doi":"10.1086/220235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/220235","url":null,"abstract":"Americans are notorious for their individualism, mobility, and frequent divorces. These characteristics are accentuated in the Far West. Americans also love their homes, have small families, feel that education is essential to democracy, are hospitable, and spend large amounts for recreation. On the Pacific Coast homeownership is more widespread, families are samller, the percentage of college graduates is greater, people are more hospitable, and families spend more for recreation than in any other section. The western family is probably more American than is the family of any other region.","PeriodicalId":86247,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of sociology","volume":"53 6","pages":"432-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/220235","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27732861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnic family patterns; the Negro family in the United States.","authors":"E F FRAZIER","doi":"10.1086/220236","DOIUrl":"10.1086/220236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86247,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of sociology","volume":"53 6","pages":"435-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27732863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A loose constellation of culture traits distinguishes the traditional New England Puritan family from even somewhat similar families in the Northeast. This includes certain material-ecological patterns, attitudes, and values. While this culture has been diffusing widely, the more recently transplanted Irish-American Catholic complex has found its richest concentration in New England. While differential birth rates have so far favored the latter, and other Catholic ethnic groups settling in New England, the cultural future depends upon many things beside birth rates.
{"title":"Regional family patterns; the New England family.","authors":"J K FOLSOM","doi":"10.1086/220232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/220232","url":null,"abstract":"A loose constellation of culture traits distinguishes the traditional New England Puritan family from even somewhat similar families in the Northeast. This includes certain material-ecological patterns, attitudes, and values. While this culture has been diffusing widely, the more recently transplanted Irish-American Catholic complex has found its richest concentration in New England. While differential birth rates have so far favored the latter, and other Catholic ethnic groups settling in New England, the cultural future depends upon many things beside birth rates.","PeriodicalId":86247,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of sociology","volume":"53 6","pages":"423-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/220232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27732859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beginning less than a century ago within a historical, economic, and legal framework, systematic research on the family shifted in the 1920's to the standpoints of social interaction and cultural change. Since then the social interactional frame of reference has been enlarged as the result of influences from psycho-analysis and cultural anthropology. This has led to collaborative research on an interdisciplinary basis and a growing interest in fundamental problems. As regards method, the trend toward quantification is notable.
{"title":"Trends in family research.","authors":"M F NIMKOFF","doi":"10.1086/220245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/220245","url":null,"abstract":"Beginning less than a century ago within a historical, economic, and legal framework, systematic research on the family shifted in the 1920's to the standpoints of social interaction and cultural change. Since then the social interactional frame of reference has been enlarged as the result of influences from psycho-analysis and cultural anthropology. This has led to collaborative research on an interdisciplinary basis and a growing interest in fundamental problems. As regards method, the trend toward quantification is notable.","PeriodicalId":86247,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of sociology","volume":"53 6","pages":"477-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/220245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27732872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The particular emphasis on family solidarity characteristic of the South had its origin in the traditional values of an agrarian ruling class. The changing structure of southern society has not undermined the importance of the family, but the institution has become more limited in function, less authoritarian in character, and less romantic in sentiments. The trend toward more democratic roles in all classes makes the institution more like the family elsewhere. This has been accompanied by lowered fertility and lessened stability.
{"title":"Regional family patterns; the Southern family.","authors":"R B VANCE","doi":"10.1086/220233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/220233","url":null,"abstract":"The particular emphasis on family solidarity characteristic of the South had its origin in the traditional values of an agrarian ruling class. The changing structure of southern society has not undermined the importance of the family, but the institution has become more limited in function, less authoritarian in character, and less romantic in sentiments. The trend toward more democratic roles in all classes makes the institution more like the family elsewhere. This has been accompanied by lowered fertility and lessened stability.","PeriodicalId":86247,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of sociology","volume":"53 6","pages":"426-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1948-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/220233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27732860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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