Assessing Race, Ethnicity and Gender in HealthSpringer Science & Business Media, 22 Des 2006 - 152 halaman This book deals specifically with the historical basis for use of terms in race, gender, ethnicity, sex and sexual orientation. It brings much needed clarity to the debate by identifying the ethical issues as well as the technical challenges inherent in measuring these elusive concepts. The author expands on her work begun in Gender, Ethnicity, and Health Research by paralleling the evolution of racial and sexual categories with the development of health research. In addition, the book provides a salient guide to assessment tools currently used in measuring racial and sexual constructs, identity, and experience. |
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Methodological Considerations | 11 |
Defining Race Ethnicity and Related Constructs | 25 |
Defining Sex Gender and Sexual Orientation Constructs | 54 |
Race Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation in Health | 86 |
Measures of Ethnicity Ethnic Identification Acculturation | 119 |
Measures of Sex Gender Gender Role and Sexual Orientation | 136 |
Index | 153 |
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Halaman 27 - American Indian or Alaskan Native. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America, and who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.
Halaman 44 - Herskovits, 1936). culture change that is initiated by the conjunction of two or more autonomous cultural systems. Acculturative change may be the consequence of direct cultural transmission; it may be derived from noncultural causes, such as ecological or demographic...
Halaman 27 - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands. This area includes, for example, China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands, Hawaii and Samoa Black or African American...
Halaman 44 - Acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first-hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups.
Halaman 27 - Asian. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. It includes "Asian Indian," "Chinese," "Filipino," "Korean," "Japanese," "Vietnamese,
Halaman 37 - What, then, is a race? It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common blood and language, always of common history, traditions and impulses, who are both voluntarily and involuntarily striving together for the accomplishment of certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life.
Halaman 65 - ... rain may spoil her hairdo, who looks frequently to see if her stockings have bagged at the ankle, or who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become, just as surely as the inmate of Panopticon, a self-policing subject, a self committed to a relentless self-surveillance.
Halaman 27 - Hispanic a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
Halaman 27 - Hispanic or Latino. A person of Cuban. Mexican. Puerto Rican. South or Central American. or other Spanish culture or origin. regardless of race. The term "Spanish origin" can be used in addition to "Hispanic
Halaman 6 - Deviance is not a property inherent in certain forms of behavior; it is a property conferred upon these forms by the audiences which directly or indirectly witness them.