Honor and the American Dream - Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community

List of contents

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Culture and Inner-City Neighborhoods
3. Marginality and the American Dream
4. The Expanded Family and Family Honor
5. Young Men in the Streets: Honor and Reputation
6. Femininity and Womanhood: Virginity, Unwed
7. Education and School Authority
8. Earning a Living
9. Adult Juvenile Gang Membership
10. The Consequences of Being Different
11. Community Culture and Locally Rooted Identities
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

RUTH HOROWITZ is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Delaware.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Horowitz
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1983
• EAN: 9780813509914
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-0991-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 27 g
• Series: Crime, Law, and Deviance Serie
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories