Chapter 3 Adolescent Diversity: Socioeconomic Status and Ethnicity

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an individual’s ability to succeed in spite of adversity and hardship

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Resiliency

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those persons who are of low social class and status and experience cultural deprivation and low incomes

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Low Socioeconomic Status (low SES)

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colonies or districts of Spanish-speaking people

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Colonias or Barrios

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devotion to one’s family and respect for one’s parents and grandparents

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Familialism

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Spanish term for maleness or manhood

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Machismo

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the belief that one cannot change one’s destiny or fate

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Fatalism

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in Puerto Rican society, the implication that a woman finds her greatest satisfaction through motherhood

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Marianismo

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descent through the mother’s line

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Matrilineal

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an emphasis on the family rather than on the individual

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Collectivism

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people who leave their native land to come to live in the Unites States for any reason

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Immigrants

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people who leave their native land to come to live in the United States because they are fleeing political oppression or death

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Refugees