Latino Churches: Faith, Family, and Ethnicity in the Second GenerationCrane's work shows how a significant number of Latino youth born in the rural Midwest have stayed involved in church out of ethnic and family solidarity. Although these youths do not show the same zeal and enthusiasm for certain traditions held dear by their parents, they have kept the church as a vital social space for expressing their own spirituality and ethnic identity. Latino churches, in turn, are effective in shaping the lives of youth because they function both as supporters and extensions of the family. The family-congregation nexus combines to enable a more selective form of acculturation that maintains a high-level of family cohesion and linguistic-cultural continuity. Crane's study shows that religion continues to increase the diversity of society rather than facilitate the "incorporation" of ethnic groups into a cultural "mainstream." |
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... acculturation , involving a preservation of parental authority and cultural values , higher rates of bilingualism , and usually upward mobility , ( Portes and Zhou 1993 ... acculturation Selective Acculturation and Ethnic Congregations 23.
... acculturation , involving a preservation of parental authority and cultural values , higher rates of bilingualism , and usually upward mobility , ( Portes and Zhou 1993 ... acculturation Selective Acculturation and Ethnic Congregations 23.
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... acculturation has been used in the past to describe a step within a desired trajectory of assimilation into the dominant Anglo- Saxon layer of society ( Gordon 1964 ) . That is not way the term acculturation should be understood in this ...
... acculturation has been used in the past to describe a step within a desired trajectory of assimilation into the dominant Anglo- Saxon layer of society ( Gordon 1964 ) . That is not way the term acculturation should be understood in this ...
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... acculturation per se but the form that it takes that leads to different degrees of estrangement between immigrants and their children " ( 2001 : 193 ) . The family - congregation nexus combined to shape a more selective form of ...
... acculturation per se but the form that it takes that leads to different degrees of estrangement between immigrants and their children " ( 2001 : 193 ) . The family - congregation nexus combined to shape a more selective form of ...
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