Arthur Sakamoto
Arthur Sakamoto é professor de Sociologia na Universidade do Texas em Austin. Sua pesquisa se concentra na desigualdade social, bem como nas relações raciais e étnicas.
Atualizado em janeiro de 2011
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The Japanese American Family - Part 8 of 8
9 de Março de 2011 • Arthur Sakamoto , ChangHwan Kim , Isao Takei
>> Part 7SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONResearchers have become so fixated on the drama of the World War II internment that the general study of contemporary Japanese Americans themselves has been unfortunately neglected in recent years. We have sought to help fill this research gap by investigating the JA family using recent demographic data. Our results indicate major changes since the time of the first half of the 20th century that figured prominently in the descriptions of the classical Issei family and …
The Japanese American Family - Part 7 of 8
2 de Março de 2011 • Arthur Sakamoto , ChangHwan Kim , Isao Takei
>> Part 6CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTEMPORARY WHITE AND JAPANESE AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDSTable 4 displays some descriptive characteristics for White households in terms of basic demographic indicators, while Table 5 shows these characteristics for JA households. The indicators include the proportion residing in the Pacific region (i.e., Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California), the mean age of the householder, the mean number of children in the household, the mean household size (i.e., including children and adults), the proportion of householders with a bachelor’s …
The Japanese American Family - Part 6 of 8
23 de Fevereiro de 2011 • Arthur Sakamoto , ChangHwan Kim , Isao Takei
>> Part 5Studying Contemporary Japanese American Families (Cont'd)The next six categories refer to marital families in which the couple consists of a particular match between the two spouses based on the four JA types. The FB-FB-Japanese family includes a married couple where both spouses are foreign-born. The NB-NB-Japanese family includes a married couple where both spouses are native-born. The BR-J-White family includes a married couple consisting of spouses who are: BR-Japanese and BR-Japanese; or BR-Japanese and J-White; or J-White and …
The Japanese American Family - Part 5 of 8
16 de Fevereiro de 2011 • Arthur Sakamoto , ChangHwan Kim , Isao Takei
>> Part 4STUDYING CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE AMERICAN FAMILIESIn order to investigate contemporary patterns of the JA family, we use data from the American Community Survey (ACS), which is administered by the U.S. Census Bureau and is representative of the entire household population of the U.S. Our analysis pools together the surveys from 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 so that an adequate sample size of a comparatively small demographic group (i.e., Japanese Americans) may be obtained. Our results thus refer to period …
The Japanese American Family - Part 4 of 8
9 de Fevereiro de 2011 • Arthur Sakamoto , ChangHwan Kim , Isao Takei
>> Part 3CHANGE AND ADAPTATIONAny analysis of modern families will invariably need to incorporate the realities of several rising trends that have influenced the living arrangements of a broad spectrum of Americans in the 21st century. First, there is an increased incidence of non-family households. Demographers traditionally define the family as two or more persons living together in a household unit who are related by blood, marriage or adoption, but in the U.S. today many households do not fit this …
The Japanese American Family - Part 3 of 8
2 de Fevereiro de 2011 • Arthur Sakamoto , ChangHwan Kim , Isao Takei
>> Part 2 Education and Traditional Japanese and Japanese American Families (Cont'd) A second common pattern among Japanese and other Asian Americans centers around child-rearing patterns that promote greater family identity and cohesiveness than is typical among mainstream white American families (Conner 1974; Rothbaum et al. 2000. Underlying these patterns are collectivist beliefs that people are more inherently the products of their social and family environments (Reischauer 1977) rather than being somehow intrinsically “individuals” who have their own innate sources …
The Japanese American Family - Part 2 of 8
26 de Janeiro de 2011 • Arthur Sakamoto , ChangHwan Kim , Isao Takei
>> Part 1THE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF THE NISEIThe classical Issei family promoted discipline, security, stability, and a motivation for achievement that served as the foundation of the educational attainment of the Nisei (Lyman 1974). As described by Jiobu (1988) “The Japanese-American culture places a high regard on education and on the set of values contained within the Confucian ethic: hard work, sacrifice for the future, patience, and stoicism in the face of adversity….” In the same vein, Kitano and Kitano …
The Japanese American Family - Part 1 of 8
19 de Janeiro de 2011 • Arthur Sakamoto , ChangHwan Kim , Isao Takei
Editor's Note: The following article is a shortened version of a chapter to appear in Ethnic Families in America: Patterns and Variations, 5th Edition, edited by Roosevelt Wright, Charles H. Mindel, Robert W. Habenstin, and Than Van Tran.INTRODUCTIONMany excellent discussions of Japanese American (JA) history and Japanese immigration to the U.S. are well known and widely available (Barringer, Gardner and Levin 1993; Kitano 1976; Kitano and Daniels 1995; Min 2006; Nishi 1995). For our purposes, immigration patterns and related demographic …
