Vilma Ortiz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vilma Ortiz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vilma |
| FAMILY NAME | Ortiz |
| SIGNATURE | ORTIZ V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6345-3267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 332 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Mexican Americans and wealth: Economic Status, Family and Place
We examine the effect of economic, family, and metropolitan area characteristics on Mexican Americans’ wealth outcomes. We use data from the Mexican American Study Project, a data set that allows us to examine longitudinal and intergenerational change. We find that Mexican Americans have one main source of wealth – home equity. Moreover, length of marriage among parent respondents was key for their wealth accumulation, while education and income …
Beyond Cultural Explanations: Understanding the Gendered Division of Household Labor in Mexican American Families
While the vast literature on gendered divisions of household labor has rarely examined the experiences of Latino families, the limited research in this area has failed to account for structural contexts, even while pointing to cultural explanations for inequalities. Based on surveys of 542 Mexican American families, we argue that when taken together, structural factors predict housework for Mexican families even when individuals hold traditional …
Mexican Americans and Immigration Attitudes: A Cohort Analysis of Assimilation and Group Consciousness
This study’s motivating premise is that the ideological context around race, ethnicity, and nationhood shapes the immigration politics of Mexican Americans in distinct eras of U.S. history. To examine this proposition we identify two cohorts of Mexican Americans—those who came of age in the World War II era and those who grew up during and after the Civil Rights movement—and examine whether there are systematic differences in how members of these…
Third Generation Disadvantage among Mexican Americans
Among Mexican Americans, generational differences in education do not fit with assimilation theory's predictions of significant improvement from the second to third generation; instead, education for third generation remains similar to the second generation and falls behind that of non-Hispanic whites. Scholars have not examined this educational gap for recent cohorts, nor have they considered a wide range of economic outcomes by generation. Usin…
Towards unifying racial and ethnic paradigms
Bridging the divide between the ethnic/assimilation and the race literatures has long vexed sociologists. Valdez and Golash-Boza are to be commended for the intellectual effort they display in this article to engage this messy and contentious relationship. The distinction between the ethnic paradigm which produces assimilation projects and the racial paradigm which produces structural racism projects is important. I further this by noting that th…
Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender
Teresa&s;s narrative contains descriptive accounts of negotiating boundaries in the \nemployers&s; homes and in their community. As the maid&s;s daughter, the old adage "Just like \none of the family" is a reality, and Teresa has to learn when she must act like the employer&s;s child and when she must assume the appropriate behavior as the maid&s;s daughter. She \nhas to recognize all the social cues and interpret social settings correctly-when t…
Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.
Racial Identity and Racial Treatment of Mexican Americans
Racialization, Assimilation, and the Mexican American Experience: Racialization and Mexican American Incorporation: A Reply to Lawrence Bobo and José Itzigsohn
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Longitudinal Research at the Turn of the Century: Searching for the Mexican American People
Longitudinal studies provide useful and unique data for social science research but are labor intensive and expensive. Key to conducting a successful longitudinal study is the ability to locate respondents in the follow-up effort. We conducted a 35-year longitudinal study among Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, California, and San Antonio, Texas. In this article, the authors describe (a) the individualized approach used in searching and (b) how r…
Too Few Good Men? Available Partners and Single Motherhood Among Latinas, African Americans, and Whites
The authors test whether structural indicators of mate availability—Wilson’s marriageable pool and sex ratio arguments—help explain individual-level racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of single motherhood among young women. Using the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data for greater Los Angeles, they add mate availability measures to individual-level models. Quantity alone (sex ratio) is unrelated to single motherhood, but relative ava…
Migration and Marriage among Puerto Rican Women
Research on immigrant women in the last ten years has focused on developing a gendered understanding of the relationships among family, work, and migration. From this emerges a view of women as active agents in the migration process – using migration as an economic option that deals with gender ideology and practice. Migration among Puerto Rican women is an interesting case study with which to examine these relationships given the prominent role …
Migration and Marriage among Puerto Rican Women
The Cross-Cultural Study of Fertility among Hispanic Adolescents in the Americas
This paper examines various definitions of marriage in order to compare the nonmarital fertility of Hispanic adolescents in the Americas. The data include distributions of legal marriages and consensual unions among adolescents in Latin America, proportions of Latin American adolescents who have borne a child by categories of marriage and consensual unions, marital distributions among Hispanic adolescents in the United States, and fertility by ma…
Language Background and Literacy among Hispanic Young Adults
This paper examines the relationship between language background and literacy among Hispanic young adults drawn from the Young Adult Literacy Survey, an assessment of literacy skills among a nationally representative sample of 21- to 25-year-olds. Hispanics were found to have a significantly lower level of literacy than whites and their literacy skills also varied considerably among monolingual English, bilingual, and monolingual Spanish speakers…
Industrial Restructuring, Gender Segregation, and Sex Differences in Earnings
Men's and women's 1979 earnings are examined within a framework of the structural transformation of employment and the gender composition of jobs during the 1970s. Tests for interaction between structural change and gender composition reveal that industrial restructuring translates into different job opportunities for men and women, which, in turn, differentiate their economic rewards. Both men and women benefited from the effects of industrial s…
Changes in the Characteristics of Puerto Rican Migrants from 1955 to 1980
This article tests the assumption that recent cohorts of migrants from Puerto Rico to the United States are a more select portion of the population, i.e., more educated and professional, than earlier cohorts. In this analysis, the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of three cohorts of Puerto Rican migrants over the last 30 years are compared utilizing data from the 1960, 1970, and 1980 censuses
Reading Activities and Reading Proficiency among Hispanic, Black, and White Students
The most recent evidence from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that, despite large gains in reading proficiency by minority children over the last decade, Hispanic and black children continue to read at significantly lower levels than do whites. The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, it attempts to examine the extent to which lower reading proficiency among Hispanic and black children is explained by parents' edu…
Morning and evening people: Examination of an identifying scale and of social- and self-perceptions of personality differences
Language Orientation and Mental Health Status among Persons of Mexican Descent
This paper demonstrates that the relationship between language orientation and mental health varies by level of socioeconomic statuis. Amuong lower status Mexican Americans, whose language orienitation ranged primarily from exclusive Spanish use to the use of both languages equally, greater use of Spanish led to worse miienital health. Amuong higher status Chicanos, whose language orientation ranged primarily from exclusive English use to the use…
On the Effects of Social Stereotypes on Judgments of Individuals: "A Comment on Grant and Holmes's "The Integration of Implicit Personality Theory Schemas and Stereotypic Images
Anne Locksley, Christine Hepburn, Vilma Ortiz, On the Effects of Social Stereotypes on Judgments of Individuals: A Comment on Grant and Holmes's "The Integration of Implicit Personality Theory Schemas and Stereotypic Images", Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Dec., 1982), pp. 270-273
Social stereotypes and judgments of individuals: An instance of the base-rate fallacy
Decision Making in Intergenerational Puerto Rican Families
Rosemary Santana Cooney, Lloyd H. Rogler, Rose Marie Hurrell, Vilma Ortiz, Decision Making in Intergenerational Puerto Rican Families, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Aug., 1982), pp. 621-631
Intergenerational Change in Ethnic Identity in the Puerto Rican Family
Lloyd H. Rogler, Rosemary Santana Cooney, Vilma Ortiz, Intergenerational Change in Ethnic Identity in the Puerto Rican Family, The International Migration Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer, 1980), pp. 193-214
Intergenerational Change in Ethnic Identity in the Puerto Rican Family
This research focuses upon intergenerational changes in ethnic identity within the family. The analysis is guided by the theoretical postulate that ethnic identity is influenced by receptivity to external influences stemming from the host society and by length of exposure to the new host environment. Findings indicate that both education and age at arrival have significant independent effects upon the ethnic identity of mothers, fathers and child…
Social stereotypes and judgments of individuals: An instance of the base-rate fallacy
Racial Identity and Racial Treatment of Mexican Americans
Industrial Restructuring, Gender Segregation, and Sex Differences in Earnings
Men's and women's 1979 earnings are examined within a framework of the structural transformation of employment and the gender composition of jobs during the 1970s. Tests for interaction between structural change and gender composition reveal that industrial restructuring translates into different job opportunities for men and women, which, in turn, differentiate their economic rewards. Both men and women benefited from the effects of industrial s…
Language Orientation and Mental Health Status among Persons of Mexican Descent
This paper demonstrates that the relationship between language orientation and mental health varies by level of socioeconomic statuis. Amuong lower status Mexican Americans, whose language orienitation ranged primarily from exclusive Spanish use to the use of both languages equally, greater use of Spanish led to worse miienital health. Amuong higher status Chicanos, whose language orientation ranged primarily from exclusive English use to the use…
Intergenerational Change in Ethnic Identity in the Puerto Rican Family
This research focuses upon intergenerational changes in ethnic identity within the family. The analysis is guided by the theoretical postulate that ethnic identity is influenced by receptivity to external influences stemming from the host society and by length of exposure to the new host environment. Findings indicate that both education and age at arrival have significant independent effects upon the ethnic identity of mothers, fathers and child…
Social categorization and discriminatory behavior: Extinguishing the minimal intergroup discrimination effect
Third Generation Disadvantage among Mexican Americans
Among Mexican Americans, generational differences in education do not fit with assimilation theory's predictions of significant improvement from the second to third generation; instead, education for third generation remains similar to the second generation and falls behind that of non-Hispanic whites. Scholars have not examined this educational gap for recent cohorts, nor have they considered a wide range of economic outcomes by generation. Usin…
Mexican Americans and wealth: Economic Status, Family and Place
We examine the effect of economic, family, and metropolitan area characteristics on Mexican Americans’ wealth outcomes. We use data from the Mexican American Study Project, a data set that allows us to examine longitudinal and intergenerational change. We find that Mexican Americans have one main source of wealth – home equity. Moreover, length of marriage among parent respondents was key for their wealth accumulation, while education and income …
Migration and Marriage among Puerto Rican Women
Research on immigrant women in the last ten years has focused on developing a gendered understanding of the relationships among family, work, and migration. From this emerges a view of women as active agents in the migration process – using migration as an economic option that deals with gender ideology and practice. Migration among Puerto Rican women is an interesting case study with which to examine these relationships given the prominent role …
Beyond Cultural Explanations: Understanding the Gendered Division of Household Labor in Mexican American Families
While the vast literature on gendered divisions of household labor has rarely examined the experiences of Latino families, the limited research in this area has failed to account for structural contexts, even while pointing to cultural explanations for inequalities. Based on surveys of 542 Mexican American families, we argue that when taken together, structural factors predict housework for Mexican families even when individuals hold traditional …
Intergenerational Change in Ethnic Identity in the Puerto Rican Family
Lloyd H. Rogler, Rosemary Santana Cooney, Vilma Ortiz, Intergenerational Change in Ethnic Identity in the Puerto Rican Family, The International Migration Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer, 1980), pp. 193-214
Migration and Marriage among Puerto Rican Women
Mexican Americans and Immigration Attitudes: A Cohort Analysis of Assimilation and Group Consciousness
This study’s motivating premise is that the ideological context around race, ethnicity, and nationhood shapes the immigration politics of Mexican Americans in distinct eras of U.S. history. To examine this proposition we identify two cohorts of Mexican Americans—those who came of age in the World War II era and those who grew up during and after the Civil Rights movement—and examine whether there are systematic differences in how members of these…
Too Few Good Men? Available Partners and Single Motherhood Among Latinas, African Americans, and Whites
The authors test whether structural indicators of mate availability—Wilson’s marriageable pool and sex ratio arguments—help explain individual-level racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of single motherhood among young women. Using the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data for greater Los Angeles, they add mate availability measures to individual-level models. Quantity alone (sex ratio) is unrelated to single motherhood, but relative ava…
On the Effects of Social Stereotypes on Judgments of Individuals: "A Comment on Grant and Holmes's "The Integration of Implicit Personality Theory Schemas and Stereotypic Images
Anne Locksley, Christine Hepburn, Vilma Ortiz, On the Effects of Social Stereotypes on Judgments of Individuals: A Comment on Grant and Holmes's "The Integration of Implicit Personality Theory Schemas and Stereotypic Images", Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Dec., 1982), pp. 270-273
Decision Making in Intergenerational Puerto Rican Families
Rosemary Santana Cooney, Lloyd H. Rogler, Rose Marie Hurrell, Vilma Ortiz, Decision Making in Intergenerational Puerto Rican Families, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Aug., 1982), pp. 621-631
Racialization, Assimilation, and the Mexican American Experience: Racialization and Mexican American Incorporation: A Reply to Lawrence Bobo and José Itzigsohn
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Changes in the Characteristics of Puerto Rican Migrants from 1955 to 1980
This article tests the assumption that recent cohorts of migrants from Puerto Rico to the United States are a more select portion of the population, i.e., more educated and professional, than earlier cohorts. In this analysis, the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of three cohorts of Puerto Rican migrants over the last 30 years are compared utilizing data from the 1960, 1970, and 1980 censuses
Towards unifying racial and ethnic paradigms
Bridging the divide between the ethnic/assimilation and the race literatures has long vexed sociologists. Valdez and Golash-Boza are to be commended for the intellectual effort they display in this article to engage this messy and contentious relationship. The distinction between the ethnic paradigm which produces assimilation projects and the racial paradigm which produces structural racism projects is important. I further this by noting that th…
The Cross-Cultural Study of Fertility among Hispanic Adolescents in the Americas
This paper examines various definitions of marriage in order to compare the nonmarital fertility of Hispanic adolescents in the Americas. The data include distributions of legal marriages and consensual unions among adolescents in Latin America, proportions of Latin American adolescents who have borne a child by categories of marriage and consensual unions, marital distributions among Hispanic adolescents in the United States, and fertility by ma…
Reading Activities and Reading Proficiency among Hispanic, Black, and White Students
The most recent evidence from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that, despite large gains in reading proficiency by minority children over the last decade, Hispanic and black children continue to read at significantly lower levels than do whites. The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, it attempts to examine the extent to which lower reading proficiency among Hispanic and black children is explained by parents' edu…
Longitudinal Research at the Turn of the Century: Searching for the Mexican American People
Longitudinal studies provide useful and unique data for social science research but are labor intensive and expensive. Key to conducting a successful longitudinal study is the ability to locate respondents in the follow-up effort. We conducted a 35-year longitudinal study among Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, California, and San Antonio, Texas. In this article, the authors describe (a) the individualized approach used in searching and (b) how r…
Intergenerational Change in Ethnic Identity in the Puerto Rican Family
Lloyd H. Rogler, Rosemary Santana Cooney, Vilma Ortiz, Intergenerational Change in Ethnic Identity in the Puerto Rican Family, The International Migration Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer, 1980), pp. 193-214
Intergenerational Change in Ethnic Identity in the Puerto Rican Family
This research focuses upon intergenerational changes in ethnic identity within the family. The analysis is guided by the theoretical postulate that ethnic identity is influenced by receptivity to external influences stemming from the host society and by length of exposure to the new host environment. Findings indicate that both education and age at arrival have significant independent effects upon the ethnic identity of mothers, fathers and child…
Social categorization and discriminatory behavior: Extinguishing the minimal intergroup discrimination effect
On the Effects of Social Stereotypes on Judgments of Individuals: "A Comment on Grant and Holmes's "The Integration of Implicit Personality Theory Schemas and Stereotypic Images
Anne Locksley, Christine Hepburn, Vilma Ortiz, On the Effects of Social Stereotypes on Judgments of Individuals: A Comment on Grant and Holmes's "The Integration of Implicit Personality Theory Schemas and Stereotypic Images", Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Dec., 1982), pp. 270-273
Social stereotypes and judgments of individuals: An instance of the base-rate fallacy
Decision Making in Intergenerational Puerto Rican Families
Rosemary Santana Cooney, Lloyd H. Rogler, Rose Marie Hurrell, Vilma Ortiz, Decision Making in Intergenerational Puerto Rican Families, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Aug., 1982), pp. 621-631
Morning and evening people: Examination of an identifying scale and of social- and self-perceptions of personality differences
Language Orientation and Mental Health Status among Persons of Mexican Descent
This paper demonstrates that the relationship between language orientation and mental health varies by level of socioeconomic statuis. Amuong lower status Mexican Americans, whose language orienitation ranged primarily from exclusive Spanish use to the use of both languages equally, greater use of Spanish led to worse miienital health. Amuong higher status Chicanos, whose language orientation ranged primarily from exclusive English use to the use…
Changes in the Characteristics of Puerto Rican Migrants from 1955 to 1980
This article tests the assumption that recent cohorts of migrants from Puerto Rico to the United States are a more select portion of the population, i.e., more educated and professional, than earlier cohorts. In this analysis, the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of three cohorts of Puerto Rican migrants over the last 30 years are compared utilizing data from the 1960, 1970, and 1980 censuses
Reading Activities and Reading Proficiency among Hispanic, Black, and White Students
The most recent evidence from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that, despite large gains in reading proficiency by minority children over the last decade, Hispanic and black children continue to read at significantly lower levels than do whites. The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, it attempts to examine the extent to which lower reading proficiency among Hispanic and black children is explained by parents' edu…
Industrial Restructuring, Gender Segregation, and Sex Differences in Earnings
Men's and women's 1979 earnings are examined within a framework of the structural transformation of employment and the gender composition of jobs during the 1970s. Tests for interaction between structural change and gender composition reveal that industrial restructuring translates into different job opportunities for men and women, which, in turn, differentiate their economic rewards. Both men and women benefited from the effects of industrial s…
The Cross-Cultural Study of Fertility among Hispanic Adolescents in the Americas
This paper examines various definitions of marriage in order to compare the nonmarital fertility of Hispanic adolescents in the Americas. The data include distributions of legal marriages and consensual unions among adolescents in Latin America, proportions of Latin American adolescents who have borne a child by categories of marriage and consensual unions, marital distributions among Hispanic adolescents in the United States, and fertility by ma…
Language Background and Literacy among Hispanic Young Adults
This paper examines the relationship between language background and literacy among Hispanic young adults drawn from the Young Adult Literacy Survey, an assessment of literacy skills among a nationally representative sample of 21- to 25-year-olds. Hispanics were found to have a significantly lower level of literacy than whites and their literacy skills also varied considerably among monolingual English, bilingual, and monolingual Spanish speakers…
Migration and Marriage among Puerto Rican Women
Research on immigrant women in the last ten years has focused on developing a gendered understanding of the relationships among family, work, and migration. From this emerges a view of women as active agents in the migration process – using migration as an economic option that deals with gender ideology and practice. Migration among Puerto Rican women is an interesting case study with which to examine these relationships given the prominent role …
Migration and Marriage among Puerto Rican Women
Too Few Good Men? Available Partners and Single Motherhood Among Latinas, African Americans, and Whites
The authors test whether structural indicators of mate availability—Wilson’s marriageable pool and sex ratio arguments—help explain individual-level racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of single motherhood among young women. Using the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data for greater Los Angeles, they add mate availability measures to individual-level models. Quantity alone (sex ratio) is unrelated to single motherhood, but relative ava…
Longitudinal Research at the Turn of the Century: Searching for the Mexican American People
Longitudinal studies provide useful and unique data for social science research but are labor intensive and expensive. Key to conducting a successful longitudinal study is the ability to locate respondents in the follow-up effort. We conducted a 35-year longitudinal study among Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, California, and San Antonio, Texas. In this article, the authors describe (a) the individualized approach used in searching and (b) how r…
Racialization, Assimilation, and the Mexican American Experience: Racialization and Mexican American Incorporation: A Reply to Lawrence Bobo and José Itzigsohn
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Racial Identity and Racial Treatment of Mexican Americans
Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender
Teresa&s;s narrative contains descriptive accounts of negotiating boundaries in the \nemployers&s; homes and in their community. As the maid&s;s daughter, the old adage "Just like \none of the family" is a reality, and Teresa has to learn when she must act like the employer&s;s child and when she must assume the appropriate behavior as the maid&s;s daughter. She \nhas to recognize all the social cues and interpret social settings correctly-when t…
Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.
Third Generation Disadvantage among Mexican Americans
Among Mexican Americans, generational differences in education do not fit with assimilation theory's predictions of significant improvement from the second to third generation; instead, education for third generation remains similar to the second generation and falls behind that of non-Hispanic whites. Scholars have not examined this educational gap for recent cohorts, nor have they considered a wide range of economic outcomes by generation. Usin…
Towards unifying racial and ethnic paradigms
Bridging the divide between the ethnic/assimilation and the race literatures has long vexed sociologists. Valdez and Golash-Boza are to be commended for the intellectual effort they display in this article to engage this messy and contentious relationship. The distinction between the ethnic paradigm which produces assimilation projects and the racial paradigm which produces structural racism projects is important. I further this by noting that th…
Beyond Cultural Explanations: Understanding the Gendered Division of Household Labor in Mexican American Families
While the vast literature on gendered divisions of household labor has rarely examined the experiences of Latino families, the limited research in this area has failed to account for structural contexts, even while pointing to cultural explanations for inequalities. Based on surveys of 542 Mexican American families, we argue that when taken together, structural factors predict housework for Mexican families even when individuals hold traditional …
Mexican Americans and Immigration Attitudes: A Cohort Analysis of Assimilation and Group Consciousness
This study’s motivating premise is that the ideological context around race, ethnicity, and nationhood shapes the immigration politics of Mexican Americans in distinct eras of U.S. history. To examine this proposition we identify two cohorts of Mexican Americans—those who came of age in the World War II era and those who grew up during and after the Civil Rights movement—and examine whether there are systematic differences in how members of these…
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