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SUNY-University of Hawaii Cross-Cultural Study, 1970-1971

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Title SUNY-University of Hawaii Cross-Cultural Study, 1970-1971
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EMMLNN
 
Creator Johnson, Colleen Leahy
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The purpose of this study was to examine the manner in which an ethnic group, living in a host society, responds to forces for change over several generations in terms of family and kinship units, social relationship systems, and norms and values.


This selective non-probability sample included 61 second generation (Nisei), and 43 third generation (Sansei) Japanese-American families residing in a Japanese American community in Honolulu, Hawaii. An additional sample of community leaders was also included.

Interviews with families were conducted in 1970-1971. Interviews ranged from 90 minutes to three hours. Selection prerequisites for participating families required that both parents be Japanese; families were still intact whereby some children were still living at home; socially and psychologically families were adaptive. For the sample as a whole, families were selected so that both nisei and sansei generations, as well as socioeconomic and educational levels, were adequately represented in the sample. Interviews explored four broad topics, relationship with spouse; parents and children; family and relatives; and family and community.


The Murray Archive holds analogue materials for this study: original record demographic data sheets; interview schedules; and notes for 99 of the original 104 families. Follow-up of study participants is possible if performed with the collaboration of the contributor). If you would like to access this material, please apply to use the data.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Type field study