Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms

by Edited by Michael Rutter , Marta Tienda

• ISBN13: 9780521849937
• ISBN10: 0521849934
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Research clearly indicates that ethnic groups differ significantly on levels of mental and physical health, antisocial behavior, and educational attainment. This book explains these variations with respect to their psychological and social functioning and tests competing hypotheses about the mechanisms that might cause the functioning to differ in pattern from other groups. Attention is paid to educational attainments, antisocial behavior, schizophrenia and suicide, and to the complex and changing patterns of ethnic identity. The book concludes with a discussion of the multiple meanings of ethnicity, the major variations among ethnic groups, and policy implications.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Foreword	xi
Preface	xiii
1 Natural Experiments, Causal Influences, and Policy Development	1	(20)
Michael Rutter
2 Growing Up Ethnic in the United Kingdom and the United States: Comparative Contexts for Youth Development	21	(29)
Marta Tienda
3 The Multiple Facets of Ethnicity	50	(30)
Michael Rutter and Marta Tienda
4 Educational Attainments: Ethnic Differences in the United Kingdom	80	(27)
Barbara Maughan
5 Race and Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment in the United States	107	(32)
Charles Hirschman and Jennifer C. Lee
6 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Delinquency in the United States	139	(35)
Jeffrey D. Morenoff
7 Explaining Ethnic Variations in Crime and Antisocial Behavior in the United Kingdom	174	(30)
David J. Smith
8 Cultural Differences in the Effects of Physical Punishment	204	(23)
Kirby Deater-Deckard, Kenneth A. Dodge, and Emma Sorbring
9 Ethnicity and Mental Health: The Example of Schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean Population in Europe	227	(35)
Peter B. Jones and Wai Lun Alan Fung
10 Ethnic Variations in Youth Suicide	262	(19)
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs
11 Ethnicity and Intergenerational Identities and Adaptations in Britain: The Socio-Political Context	281	(20)
Tariq Modood
12 Assimilation, Dissimilation, and Ethnic Identities: The Experience of Children of Immigrants in the United States	301	(34)
Rubén G. Rumbaut
13 Deciphering Ethnicity: Reflections on Research Opportunities	335	(16)
Marta Tienda and Michael Rutter
Author Index	351	(13)
Subject Index	364