Gender across family generations: change in Mexican American masculinities and femininities

Vasquez, Jessica M.

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2014.904231

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“…Claude had confirmed immediately prior to this quotation that the publication goal of my study was a book. He responded, “Hopefully the book will show that the Latino is diversified in a way of thinking and not just … the old … machismo [patriarchal] way.” Claude recognizing in‐group patriarchy with a younger Latina woman interviewer is a way to acknowledge that, even as we are both adults, his much older age provides him a vista of historical experience from which to assure me that “we've grown” and that culture changes over time (see also Vasquez ).…”

Section: Findings: a Late Twenties/early Thirties Heterosexual Latinamentioning

confidence: 99%

“If I Can Offer You Some Advice”: Rapport and Data Collection in Interviews Between Adults of Different Ages

Vasquez-Tokos

2017

Symbolic Interaction

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Reflexively analyzing interactions between myself (young adult woman) and 150 adult research participants, I explore how interviewees responded to the interviewer's perceived age in combination with other social identity categories. Addressing a gap in scholarship on adult-adult interview interactions, this article examines how age gradations, in combination with other axes of similarity or difference, affect researcher-interviewee rapport and data acquisition. Racial similarity, regardless of age, unlocked access to the topic of race/ethnicity. Age intersected with gender such that women within a decade of the woman interviewer's age assumed similarity and were communicative. In interviews with similarly-aged heterosexual men, awareness of sexuality inhibited answers around intimacy. With older interviewees, gender similarity bridged the age chasm with women. In contrast, age and gender difference inspired older men to act paternalistically and give unsolicited advice. Even among adults, interviewees' classification of the interviewer's age contours the interactional dynamic, impacts data acquisition, and reproduces social distinctions.

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Section: Findings: a Late Twenties/early Thirties Heterosexual Latinamentioning

confidence: 99%

“If I Can Offer You Some Advice”: Rapport and Data Collection in Interviews Between Adults of Different Ages

Vasquez-Tokos

2017

Symbolic Interaction

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“…55 Latino parents born outside the United States hold cultural values and expectations from their home countries that emphasize distinct gender roles and the primary responsibility of mothers in child care, which shape their parenting practices. 56,57 Although research is limited, theoretically, rigid gender roles can result in less shared decision making and limited involvement of fathers in daily parenting activities. 58,59 However, there is considerable variability in non-U.S.-born Latino parents' co-parenting practices that should not be overlooked.…”

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Understanding Latino Children and Families’ Well-being Requires Data Disaggregated by Birth Within or Outside the United States

Cabrera,

Alonso,

et al. 2024

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Nearly 1 in 5 people in the United States are Hispanic, and Latino children and families' well-being varies according to a number of factors-including whether they were born inside the United States or outside it, in their country of heritage. Disaggregated data that compare the lived experiences and outcomes of Hispanic children and families born in the Unites States to those born outside the country are needed to understand disparities in education, child care and health care access, employment opportunities, and other key areas that affect U.S. Hispanic children and families' well-being. 2 Understanding Latino Children and Families' Well-being Requires Data Disaggregated by Birth Within or Outside the United StatesThis brief has three main parts. First, we describe theoretical perspectives that support a disaggregated approach-that is, examining different Latino subgroups separately-to understanding Latino individuals' well-being by considering their nativity status. Second, we use a strength-based approach to summarize existing research on how Latino families vary by nativity status in their family processes (i.e., co-parenting and parenting), psychological functioning (i.e., mental health), stressors (e.g., poverty), promotive factors (factors such as optimism and bicultural identity that are related to positive outcomes), protective factors (factors that might mitigate the negative effects of risks on outcomes), and children's wellbeing. Third, we discuss implications of our findings and review important policy and program considerations

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“…Immigrant parents accustomed to upholding traditional gender ideologies and patriarchal family practices may experience changing gender roles that stress the egalitarian division of household labour in the U.S. According to Vasquez (2014), the Mexican highly patriarchal cultural view on gender norms (e.g. 'machismo') may clash with American norms that strive for gender equality.…”

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Immigrant family socialization

Paat¹,

Chavira²,

Hoya³

et al. 2020

JCSW

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Using convenient and purposive sampling augmented with snowball sampling, this study examines the perceptions of family socialization between two cultures, using in-depth interviews of 15 pairs of adult child-parent dyads (n=30) of Mexican origin in the United States. In sum, despite variations in the pace of acculturation, our study shows that both adult children and their parents proactively adopted compromising strategies (e.g. mutual respect, acceptance, openness, and realistic expectations) to bridge the differences in acculturation and reach common ground in family communication. Several core values and family practices, such as respect to family authority, family interdependence, retention/preservation of cultural heritage (e.g. language, customs, and identity), a strong work ethic, patriarchal gender norms, Mexican versus American parenting styles, and adult children striving for more freedom from traditional customs (e.g. conventional gender roles and living arrangements), were emphasized in Mexican immigrant family socialization in our study. Despite their differences in belief systems and ideologies, our study shows that family communication between the adult child-parent dyads was built on a set of implicit expectations that focus on minimizing family conflicts, yet providing a ‘culturally instrumental’ and supportive/caring context. In contrast to the postulation of the acculturation gap-distress model, our study found that discrepancies in acculturation between immigrant parents and their children were not necessarily associated with poorer family functioning and adjustment.

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Gender across family generations: change in Mexican American masculinities and femininities

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

“If I Can Offer You Some Advice”: Rapport and Data Collection in Interviews Between Adults of Different Ages

“If I Can Offer You Some Advice”: Rapport and Data Collection in Interviews Between Adults of Different Ages

Understanding Latino Children and Families’ Well-being Requires Data Disaggregated by Birth Within or Outside the United States

Immigrant family socialization

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