The acculturation of Hispanic households

Cecilia Alvarez and Peter R. Dickson

This paper explores the acculturation process as a bilinear multidimensional change process across generations.

The acculturation of Hispanic households

Cecilia Alvarez and Peter R. DicksonFlorida International University, United States

THE ACCULTURATION OF HISPANIC HOUSEHOLDS

Acculturation is the construct that has been recognized as the core concept in contemporary social and behavioral academic research with ethnic groups. Although there is wide consensus that acculturation is an important variable in cross-cultural and ethnic research, there is disagreement on how to conceptualize and measure it. Acculturation has been defined in many ways, but it can be primarily understood as the phenomenon of culture change that occurs as a result of continuous contact between cultural...

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