From generation to generation
Subtitle: maintaining cultural identity over time
By: edited by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz.
Contributors: Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy.
Series: The Hampton Press communication series.
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cresskill, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Intergenerational relations; Intergenerational communication; Group identity; Ethnicity; Family -- Psychological aspects; Cultural relations
Description: "This book applies various social approaches to investigations of real people as they function in a specific context, the family. Of all the social facts we construct, identity is probably the most critical. And of all our identities, cultural identity is one of the most central to who we think we are. We learn our cultural identities first within families. The authors all explore the families they know best, their own. The chapters examine four critical issues: how family members jointly work to construct identity; how parents convey that identity to their children; the conflict between mainstream expectations and the traditions of discrete cultural groups; and the range of possible ways to display identity within and across groups."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.