Sexual Patterns in Three Ethnic Subcultures of an American Underclass

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ID9764577
AuthorsBernard Rosenberg (City College of New York, corresponding author), Joseph Bensman (City College of New York)
Year1968
Volume376
Issue1
Pages61-75
Publication date1968-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000271626837600107
OpenAlexW2110490544
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Three American ethnic subcultures, all consisting of transmigrated groups living in poverty, were studied and the sexual patterns of the youth described. The groups con sisted of white Appalachians living in Chicago, Negroes in Washington, D.C., and Puerto Ricans in New York. Sharply differentiated patterns of sexual behavior, involving conquest, sex education, sex misinformation, attitudes toward females, responsibility, and affect were discovered, and these patterns are reflected in the language of the subcultures, particularly in their argot. The underclass sexual mores differ from those of the American middle class, but not more than they differ from each other among the three ethnic groups. Sexual practices are related to general life styles, and reflect ghettoization, subcultural isolation, and short-range hedonism in groups only recently transplanted from their rural areas of origin

Affect (linguistics · Ethnic group · Mores · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · Underclass · White (mutation · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Demography · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Psychology

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