The Responsiveness of Family Patterns to Economic Change in the United States

1984 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-50
Author(s):  
Alex Inkeles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Character ◽  
American Family ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Core ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
The Family ◽  
The U.S

In « Continuity and Change in the American National Character », I described the striking degree of continuity in the core values held by Americans since the early days of the nation, despite massive changes in the size and composition of the U.S. population, its level of education, its patterns of residence and its forms of work. (Inkeles, 1979). Subsequently, when I was invited by the Tocqueville Society to write on modernization and the family, it occurred to me that the same sort of continuity might have been manifested in the case of the American family.

Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families: Asian American Family Patterns, 1980-2005

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo ◽  
Carl L. Bankston
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Family ◽  
Ethnic Boundaries ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Mixed Families

In this work, the authors use statistics from the U.S. Census to examine trends in intermarriage, racial and ethnic combinations, and categorizations among Asian Americans. Specifically, the authors want to consider the extent to which family patterns may contribute to Asian Americans and their descendants’ continuing as distinct, becoming members of some new category or categories, or simply becoming White. Based on the data analysis and discussion, it seems most likely that Whiteness will increasingly depend on the situation: Where there are Asians,Whites, and Blacks, Asians will tend to become White.Where there are only Whites, Asians, including even those of multiracial background, may well continue to be distinguished. Yet people in mixed families will be continually crossing all racial and ethnic lines in the United States, and their numbers will steadily increase.

Global Competition and the Family-Owned Business in Latin America

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto J. Poza
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
American Family ◽  
Concentrated Ownership ◽  
The Family

Challenges and adaptations are discussed in a practice context for Latin-American family-owned businesses. These strategies include family-owned conglomerates, monarchical families, financial obscurity, concentrated ownership, and succession. These Latin American strategies are compared to those in the United States.

scholarly journals North Korea’s Evolving Cyber Strategies: Continuity and Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Michael Raska
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Core ◽  
The North

AbstractPyongyang sees the Korean Peninsula as entrenched in a geopolitical deadlock among great powers, with the United States continuing to employ what the North Korean regime sees as a “hostile policy” detrimental to its survival, its ability to shape relevant events, and the country’s political and economic development. While the core security concerns of South Korea and the United States are North Korea’s growing nuclear weapons and ballistic missile capabilities, the alliance must increasingly also prioritize the continuous development of North Korea’s cyber capabilities, both offensive and defensive. North Korea aims to gain strategic advantage by pursuing cost-effective, asymmetric military capabilities, including cyber strategies, to gather intelligence, coerce its rivals, financially extort others, and otherwise exert influence in ways that are resistant to traditional deterrence and defense countermeasures. Seoul and Washington need a full-spectrum military readiness posture against the full range of potential North Korean provocations, while European democracies need to strengthen their cyber readiness posture to effectively track and counter North Korea’s evolving global cyber operations.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on Family Violence in Immigrant Communities in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Abha Rai ◽  
Susan F. Grossman ◽  
Nathan H. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
The Family ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

The COVID-19 pandemic has threatening implications for all individuals; and has been particularly unsettling for immigrants. Given their unique positionality in the U.S., the intersectional discussion about the impact of this pandemic on immigrants and issues of family violence is salient. The position of some groups of immigrant women is even more precarious due to the increased dependency on their spouse/partner for emotional, economic and immigration-related reasons. While immigrants have been on the frontlines as responders for COVID-19, there are limited policies that provide them with healthcare, employment guarantee, or benefits. Further, the immigration restrictions created by the U.S. Government have worsened the position of immigrants. All these stressors create unprecedented challenges for immigrants. Therefore, it is vital to delve into the family dynamics, unique challenges, and potential solutions that can provide support to immigrant families. This commentary highlights the atypical challenges of immigrants in relation to the pandemic and how these challenges may impact the incidence of family violence. Through our discussion, we hope to encourage social work scholars, practitioners, and policy advocates to support and advocate for immigrants; especially, during the new normal under the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I Became a Mom Overnight”: How Parental Detentions and Deportations Impact Young Adults’ Role

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-82
Author(s):  
CAROLINA VALDIVIA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Educational Trajectories ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article examines how the detention or deportation of a parent shapes the roles and responsibilities of young adults within the household and the consequences that these changes have on their educational experiences. Drawing from thirty-two in-depth interviews with young adults living in the United States whose parent was detained, author Carolina Valdivia finds that children’s responsibilities within the family abruptly change as soon as a parent is apprehended, with conditions worsening as the parent undergoes deportation proceedings. More specifically, young adults take on additional and a wider range of responsibilities to help their families cope emotionally and financially, including working additional jobs and spending more time taking care of younger siblings. The article also demonstrates how young adults’ gender, birth order, and level of education at the time of a parent’s immigration arrest shape their participation at home and notes how increased responsibilities affect their educational trajectories.

Social Change in Liberal Democracies

2018 ◽  
pp. 229-246
Author(s):  
Jeremiah J. Garretson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Prior Beliefs ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Lgbtq Rights ◽  
The U.S

In this concluding chapter, the general conclusions that can be draw from this study are stated. After a brief recap of the historical narrative that has formed the core of this book, what these findings mean for the future trajectory of LGBTQ rights support in the United States are discussed. The chapter then discusses what the findings means for LGBTQ rights activists in the U.S. and other Western nations and provides some potential guidance for sexual minority activists outside of Liberal Democracies. Lastly, given that the process of Affective Liberalization results from (mostly) subconscious processes, rather than an active, deliberative re-evaluation of prior beliefs, what the findings of this study mean for democracy more generally are discussed.

Migration Tradeoffs: Men's Experiences with Seasonal Lifestyles

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Guendelman ◽  
Auristela Perez-Itriago
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
The Family ◽  
Work Health ◽  
Economic Function

This study examines changes in work, health and family patterns among men who migrate seasonally between Mexico and the United States. A representative sample of 219 Mexican seasonal migrants to California was obtained in Jalisco, Mexico. The data were generated through a household survey and in-depth follow-up interviews. The findings indicate that migrants experience marked changes and tradeoffs in roles and lifestyles which are reflected in the workplace and the family. In contrast, changes in physical health associated with seasonal migration seem far less apparent. Beyond the economic function of providing jobs and income, migration performs a significant social function which is described in the context of seasonal lifestyles.

Judicial Review and Criminal Disenfranchisement in the United States and Canada

1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Manfredi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Moral Principle ◽  
The Core ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
Liberal Constitutionalism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

Courts in both the United States and Canada have been forced to consider the constitutionality of laws disenfranchising convicted offenders. Despite similar legal traditions, courts in the two countries have reached diametrically opposed results, with the U.S. Supreme Court upholding broad state power to disenfranchise offenders and Canadian courts rejecting progressively less severe restrictions on offenders' right to vote. Using these decisions as its focus, this article analyzes contemporary theories of judicial review and argues that neither interpretive nor noninterpretive theories of review capture the complex relationship between legal positivism and moral principle that is at the core of liberal constitutionalism. Consequently, neither the Canadian nor American decisions have fully grappled with the normative principles underlying criminal disenfranchisement. The paper further argues that there is a principled defense of criminal disenfranchisement that is grounded in the relationship among citizenship, civic virtue, and punishment.

The Demographic Situation in the United States of America and In England and Wales

1956 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 231-259
Author(s):  
C. J. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
White Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Family ◽  
The U.S

The present is a particularly appropriate time to embark on a comparison of the demographic situation in the United States of America and that in England and Wales. P. K. Whelpton's study,Cohort Fertility: Native White Women in the United States, and the Report on the Family Census of 1946 conducted under the auspices of the Royal Commission on Population, have recently been published. These two works, one American and the other British, deserve careful study. This paper is designed mainly to make a broad comparison of the populations of the two countries and to provide a background for readers of Whelpton's book and of the Family Census Report.The author wishes to acknowledge the ready assistance he received, on all occasions, from officials of the U.S. National Office of Vital Statistics and of the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

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