This paper examines the assumptions that a person's ethnic identity is equal to his/her national identity by looking at the stories of seven Korean American college students and their ethnic sense of self. It explores the lives and stories of these students as they refine what it means to be Korean American persons through social interactions with…

A study examined the use of the ethnic language as it relates to ethnic self-identification in three generations of a bilingual family of Mexican origin in San Antonio (Texas). Family members were speakers of Texas Spanish and English. Two questionnaires and follow-up discussions examined fluency in Spanish and English; language preferences;…

After distinguishing between sex-role typing, socialization, and identification, a sample of male and female adults were grouped according to their sex role and socialization pattern. It was noted that sex-role typing for men appears to expand the personal options available to them; for women, sex-role typing seems to restrict the alternatives of…

The purpose of this article is to offer a sketch of what is intended to become a full feature portrait of "basic group identity." This is the identity derived from belonging to what is generally and loosely called an "ethnic group." (Author)

Results of cross-tabulations and of the regression analysis seem to indicate that attitudes toward the familial institution are related most directly to the nature of the interaction between parents and children in the latter's family of orientation. (Author)

This article describes some of the "games" or roles delinquents play in order to achieve excitement and happiness within their lives. (JH)

Chicanos intend to act now to see that they can continue to function in a land that has become sociologically diseased and technologically polluted. (DM)

Describes the characteristics and ideosyncracies, hopes, and struggle for survival of the Northeastern Spanish community. (DM)

The black American scholar should expose psychological scientism and develop new criteria appropriate to the conduct of scientific inquiry among black Americans. (Author)

The hypothesis was tested that the greater development of career interests associated with a masculine-parent identification would contribute to the educational problems of the troubled liberal arts college student. (Author)

Argues that an implicit commitment to an autonomous morality produces a dilemma for blacks: for like all disadvantaged groups, the most strategically useful moral system is determinism; it is paradoxical for a group of people to demand the preconditions of moral autonomy by appealing to the opposing ethic of determinism. (Author/JM)

The contrast between the real power and the experience of impotence that millions of bright, earnest school children attest to prompts one to enquire into preplanned impotence and self-defeat. (Author)

Sensitivity to cultural differences, interest in a client's ethnic background, and understanding its meaning to him are important tools in therapy. (Author/DM)

The percentage of an Indian's adult life which has been lived in an urban environment and the relation between employment, income, education, housing, acceptance of white culture, and Indian ancestry to continued urban residence are examined. (NQ)