culture

Ethnic Heritage and Cultural Pluralism in the USA

The paper discusses two forms of ethnic identification in American society: the cultural world to which immigrants and socially and economically marginal racial groups cling and the “new ethnics” who utilized ethnic awareness to fulfill emotional or pragmatic goals. The...

The Italian American Family: The Southern Italian Family’s Process of Adjustment to an Urban America

The study examines the social world of southern Italians, the intergenerational process from familism to individualism, and the interplay between the individual, family and society. While many social scientists argue that migration, urbanization, and acculturation weaken or destroy kinship bonds...

BOOK REVIEW | Latinos: Remaking America

Patricia Landolt, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, reviews Latinos: Remaking America by M. M. Suárez-Orozco and M. M. Páez. This book questions what academics know and need to know about the Latino population in the United States. It...

Migration in Light of Vatican II

The aim of the study is to assess the teaching of the Second Vatican Council with regard to internal and external migration, and to understand the economic, psychological and spiritual needs of migrants in order to assist them through pastoral...