Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms

Marta Tienda, Michael Rutter

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9780521849937
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139142236
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Social Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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 among ethnic groups with respect to their psychological and social functioning and tests competing hypotheses about the mechanisms that might cause the functioning to be better, worse, or different 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 also focuses on evidence on risk and protective factors that is used systematically to ask whether such factors might account for the differences in both migration histories and ethnic mixture. It concludes with a discussion of the multiple meanings of ethnicity, the major variations among ethnic groups, and the policy implications of the findings discussed in the book.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 Natural Experiments, Causal Influences, and Policy Development
• 2 Growing Up Ethnic in the United Kingdom and the United States: Comparative Contexts for Youth Development
• 3 The Multiple Facets of Ethnicity
• 4 Educational Attainments: Ethnic Differences in the United Kingdom
• 5 Race and Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment in the United States
• 6 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Delinquency in the United States
• 7 Explaining Ethnic Variations in Crime and Antisocial Behavior in the United Kingdom
• 8 Cultural Differences in the Effects of Physical Punishment
• 9 Ethnicity and Mental Health: The Example of Schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean Population in Europe
• 10 Ethnic Variations in Youth Suicide
• 11 Ethnicity and Intergenerational Identities and Adaptations in Britain: The Socio-Political Context
• 12 Assimilation, Dissimilation, and Ethnic Identities: The Experience of Children of Immigrants in the United States
• 13 Deciphering Ethnicity: Reflections on Research Opportunities
• Author Index
• Subject Index