Download or read book Marital Satisfaction in Japanese American Intermarriages written by Richard Avram Zuckerwise and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communication and Marital Satisfaction in Japanese and Caucasian American Intermarried Couples written by Yuko Iwamoto Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of the study was to investigate the nature of communication in intercultural marriage between Japanese and Caucasian Americans; examining how cultural differences are manifested in communication styles and how these differences affect relationships. A dual methodology was applied to explore these questions. First, two tests designed to assess level of communication in-marriage (Marital Communication Form) and marital satisfaction (Locke and Wallace Marital Adjustment Test) were translated and distributed to a large sample (n=240) of Caucasian Americans, Japanese (in Japan), and mixed couples (in the United States). Then, face-to-face interviews were conducted with six interculturally married couples, selected to represent either 'good communicators' or 'poor communicators' based on their results on both tests. Quantitative analyses of the questionnaires point towards major differences between American and Japanese cultures in these areas: Perception of marriage (including mate selection, gender role expectations, and concepts of happiness and intimacy) and communication styles and content (including verbal/nonverbal and expression of affection). In this context, in-depth interviews of intermarried couples were conducted and analyzed. Four general areas pertaining to intermarriage provided the framework for questioning: 1) factors leading to the marriage; 2) marital adjustment; 3) cultural differences and conflict; and 4) managing the conflict. The purpose of the interviews was to obtain an understanding of what actually happens when two people of different ethnic cultural backgrounds marry, and to discover strategies developed by couples to cope with cultural differences. The four areas of questioning are discussed through vignettes taken from the married lives of both good and poor communicators. The results of the study show that the more one knows of one's spouse's culture, the better the communication, and that for mixed marriages in the United States, marital satisfaction is contingent on having Japanese spouses speaking English to an adequate degree. As a preliminary and exploratory study, the research has provided some answers about the complexity and multi-dimensionality of communication and marital satisfaction in intercultural relationships"--Leaves iii-iv.
Download or read book The Japanese American Marriage in Hawaii written by Brenda S. Molina and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intermarriage in the United States written by Gary A. Cretser and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapists who work with couples will find valuable background information on some of the major ethnic groups who intermarry in the United States--black, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Korean, Philippino, and Caucasian. Intermarriage in the United States presents A thorough compilation of information on issues of interracial and intercultural marriage in the United States, focusing particularly on the difficulties and failures of the marriages. This unique and much-needed volume focuses on the psychological conditions of the marriage partners, intermarriage as an indicator of social assimilation and integration, hypergamy, including both caste and class hypergamy, and much more.
Download or read book Transforming the Past written by Sylvia Yanagisako and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is at once a cultural history of Japanese American kinship and a contribution to the study of the contemporary kinship system of the United States. It brings to the analysis of American kinship a theoretical perspective that attends to the historically situated, symbolic processes through which people interpret and thereby transform their kinship relations. By examining kinship change among Japanese Americans, I elucidate a particular case of a general process I take as having been central to the development of contemporary American kinship. For, while Japanese Americans have a unique and rich cultural heritage and a distinctive and troubled social history, the process of kinship change they have undergone since the turn of the century has been shared by many other Americans. I begin with the premise that kinship relations are structured by symbolic relations and serve symbolic functions as well as social ones. It follows from this that kinship change involves symbolic processes, and that a study of it must attend to the manner in which relations among symbols, meanings, and actions have shaped relations among people. My second premise is that we can comprehend the system of symbols and meanings structuring people's kinship relations in the present only if we know their kinship relations in the past. If symbolic systems help people answer the questions and cope with the problems of meaning they confront in their everyday lives, symbolic analysis can only be enriched by a knowledge of the social history that has given rise to these questions and problems. Conversely, we can comprehend that social history only if we comprehend the system of symbols and meanings through which people interpret and thereby transform the past. In this study I treat the oral kinship autobiographies I elicited from first- and second-generation Japanese Americans in Seattle, Washington, both as cultural tales and as accounts with a good degree of historical veracity. Because people's recollections of the past are reasonably accurate and do not obliterate facts so much as reinterpret them, they can be mined to reconstruct a social history of events and actions. At the same time they can be used, along with what people say about the present, as material for a symbolic analysis. Unlike most Japanese Americans, and most of those who have studied them, I do not uncritically assume a timeless past of "Japanese tradition" in which stem-family households were endlessly reproduced by people who obeyed the "rules of the Japanese family system." Instead, on the one hand, I reconstruct kinship relations in Japan from immigrants' accounts of their kinship biographies and, on the other, regard the Japanese past and the American present that figure so centrally in these accounts as complex symbols whose meanings must be explicated. The analytic strategy I have formulated for this study is one I think can be usefully applied to groups besides Japanese Americans and other ethnic groups whose conceptions of their particular cultural traditions and experiences as immigrants are similarly prominent in their discourse on kinship relations. It can help us better understand the social and symbolic processes shaping kinship even among those sectors of our society whose ethnicity has been made invisible by hegemonic processes that cast a particular cultural system as a generalized American one. For whether they view themselves as having an ethnic past that is Polish, Italian, African, English, or, in the case of "just plain American," one supposedly unmarked by ethnicity, all these folk commonly speak of a "traditional" past in opposition to the "modern" present. Like Japanese Americans, they too construct tradition by reconceptualizing the past in relation to the meaning of their actions in the present, thereby transforming past and present in a dialectic of interpretation.
Download or read book A Study of the Marital Stability of Japanese War Brides written by John W. Connor and published by San Francisco : R and E Research Associates. This book was released on 1976 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personality Characteristics Acculturation and Marital Satisfaction of Interracially Married and Endogamous Chinese Americans written by Birgitta Maria Oey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Japanese American Role Attitudes and Their Effect on Marital Satisfaction written by Judith Ashida and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese American Intermarriage written by Russell Endo and published by . This book was released on 1983* with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese American Intermarriage written by Ikuko Okuyama and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Perception of Marital Role Expectations and Marital Satisfaction Among Japanese Americans and Chinese Americans written by Scott Hanada and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Download or read book Intermarriage and Ethnic Boundaries written by John N. Tinker and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Invisible Work written by Toshie Okita and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing recognition that 'context' is important for bilingual language development, but understanding of that context remains underdeveloped. This innovative study, spanning the fields of bilingualism, ethnicity and family studies, shows how language use in intermarried families is deeply intertwined with the experience of everyday childrearing, in specific socio-historical contexts. This is why, despite good intentions, expert advice and effort, bilingual-child rearing often encounters difficulties. Conversely, drawing on in-depth interviews of twenty eight Japanese mother British father families in the UK, the study uses a focus on language issues to portray actual childrearing dynamics and 'situated ethnicity' in intermarried families. Presenting a vivid picture of the 'invisible work' of mothers in these families, and how they attempt to resolve conflicting pressures and demands over childrearing, language and education, the author shows the importance of 'recognition' and shared responsibility. This book will interest researchers, practitioners and parents interested in bilingualism, ethnically diverse families and multicultural education.
Download or read book Divorce written by David Chiriboga and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since William Goode's Women in Divorce in the 1950's have we had such a comprehensive study of adjustment to divorce. This longitudinal work views divorce as a transition process which may have positive or negative outcomes over time. In addition to statistical analysis, the book includes very interesting case studies to demonstrate the dynamic events occurring as individuals refashion their lives after the breakup of their marriages. Researchers on divorce and the interested public will find this book very valuable for years to come." —Colleen L. Johnson, Ph.D.Professor Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco We are witnessing a steady increase in the overall number of older adults who are divorced, yet the majority of divorce research has concerned itself with persons in the younger adult years. This unique, groundbreaking book addresses the critical need for information on the impact of divorce on individuals in all age groups, and pays special attention to age as a factor in the effects of divorce on both men and women. Written by an interdisciplinary team of social and behavioral scientists, Divorce: Crisis, Challenge or Relief? provides the invaluable results gained from their life span study of divorced adults. Divorce is the product of hundreds of interviews containing a host of very specific questions conducted with divorced adults between the ages of 20 and 79, both just after their divorce and again several years later.
Download or read book Third Generation Japanese American Women s Self esteem Correlated with Their Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating and Marriage written by Isabelle Yoshiko Miyata and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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