AbstractsSociology

The Mexican Colony In South Lorain, Ohio : An Exploratory Study

by O'Brien, Robert W




Institution: Oberlin College Masters Theses
Department: Sociology
Degree: MA
Year: 1931
Keywords: Latin American Studies; Sociology; Lorain; Ohio; South Lorain; steel; Mexican; Mexico; sociology; cultural identity; United States; census; population
Record ID: 1505794
Full text PDF: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=obgrad1392391945


Abstract

The object of this thesis is to show the process of adjustment which the Mexican faces when he leaves his less competitive physical and social environment in Mexico and lives in a typical steel city of the Northern section of the United States. This study is sociological, rather than economic in its approach. It is an attempt to get at the way in which these people live, and the attitudes which they have toward themselves and other groups.