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6. Critique this article, discuss method, findings, analysis, writing style, or other elements
of the research project
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3. What are the characteristics of the population studied? How many people, age,
genders, race/ ethnicity/nationality, professions, etc?
How were these people selected?
• Marital disruption in the Mexican –origin population of the U.S.
• Female education of Mexican origin has a positive correlation of marital
disruption among Mexican Americans.
• Women and men responses are pooled together from a standardized interview
survey
• U.S. census data is used that recorded marital separation, disruptions and marital
contracts
• Mexican origin persons aged 26-35 in the U.S.
4. What research method (s) was employed by the researchers? Was this appropriate for
the population and the research question? Were there limitations to this method?
• Developing and testing alternative hypothesis about how the processes of cultural
and structural incorporation apply to the explanation of marital-disruption patterns
among Mexican immigrants and their descendants compared to non-Hispanic
whites and African Americans.
• Discrete-time proportional hazard models of marital disruption using data from
1979 -1992 of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)—a
longitudinal data that recorded samples of Mexican immigrant and Mexican
American women and men marital disruption histories.
• Limitation - interview methods were used in which men and women could be
seeking divorce
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3. What are the characteristics of the population studied? How many people, age,
genders, race/ ethnicity/nationality, professions, etc?
How were these people selected?
• Mexican American enterprises in the U.S.
• Ages 40 and up
• Men and women
• People were selected by consumer demand for low and high Mexican immigrant
enterprises.
4. What research method (s) was employed by the researchers? Was this appropriate for
the population and the research question? Were there limitations to this method?
• Using a hypothesis model that self employed immigrants earn higher incomes
than other immigrant workers in the labor market.
• Limitation- little research has been done to determine if entrepreneurship benefits
immigrant workers of non-entrepreneurship status and if the entrepreneurs
themselves benefit from their very own enterprises.
• 1990 U.S. census of Population and Housing
• 60 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas
• Salary income from the 1989 calendar year
6. Critique this article, discuss method, findings, analysis, writing style, or other elements
of the research project
1. Citation
3. What are the characteristics of the population studied? How many people, age,
genders, race/ ethnicity/nationality, professions, etc?
How were these people selected?
• Sample is limited to persons of Mexican descent
• Ages are 25 and older
• Mexican American population
• Focus groups are second and third generation Mexican Americans.
• Disproportionately selected from the lower segment of U.S. socioeconomic
distribution.
• Male and Female genders
• An arrangement of various employment levels
4. What research method (s) was employed by the researchers? Was this appropriate for
the population and the research question? Were there limitations to this method?
• Individual level data from the 1990’s—Latino sample of the Panel Study of
Income Dynamics (LPSID)—From this sample 2,043-household national sample
of Latinos were originally interviewed in 1989--- Latino National Political
Survey (LNPS); (LPSID) combines (LNPS) demographic and economic data
collected in 1990 with (LNPS) immigration and language proficiency data
collected in 1989.
• Classic and segmented models of assimilation.
• The classic model of assimilation offers a poor account of Mexican Americans’
lack of intergenerational social and economic mobility despite their assimilation.
5. What were the primary findings of the research?
• Not only are Mexican American Immigrants revealing a lack of interest in
education but schools are not providing the best teaching methods for Mexican
American children to attain higher achievement.
-(Mexican American culture places little emphasis on education attainment and more
emphasis on investing in capital).
• Academic tracking, grade delays and curriculums that downplay a student’s
culture and language reduce the cost of Mexican American children to continue
on with their education.
• Students who come from socioeconomic backgrounds in which parents completed
high school were more likely to complete high school and enroll in higher levels
of education.
6. Critique this article, discuss method, findings, analysis, writing style, or other elements
of the research project
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3. What are the characteristics of the population studied? How many people, age,
genders, race/ ethnicity/nationality, professions, etc?
How were these people selected?
• Various Immigrant migration whites, blacks Latinos and Asians in the 1990’s.
• Each immigrant wanted to challenge incorporating their children in one of the
largest cities in the U.S.
• Focus is on second generation immigrant individual experiences in New York.
• Immigrants were chosen based on their arrival in the United States and the
longevity of their stay.
- Stay had to be at least ten or more years. (Mainly adult children of immigrants who
arrived in the U.S. after 1965.)
4. What research method (s) was employed by the researchers? Was this appropriate for
the population and the research question? Were there limitations to this method?
• A large scale study under way since 1999; it conducted telephone interviews.
• Second generation immigrants were chosen from random selections of
nationalities whose parents were from China, The Dominic Republic, Columbia,
The Former Soviet Union and Guyana.
• In 1999-2000 six ethnographies were targeted on institutions and sites where the
second generations of mixed immigrants were more likely to encounter each other
such as New York’s four year college ; City University of New York (CUNY)
retail stores, and community political organizations.
5. What were the primary findings of the research?
• Immigrant and native minority young people are creating a vibrant youth culture
that is neither “immigrant” nor “middle American” but rather something new.
• New York is overwhelmingly a city of mixed immigrants with a strong immigrant
tradition.
• The impacts of immigration within New York’s population have shaped New
York’s population, culture, economy and political structure.
Within the mixture of the second generation immigrants they (immigrants) are most
successful than the native-born New Yorker to complete school and become successful.
6. Critique this article, discuss method, findings, analysis, writing style, or other elements
of the research project