Ethnicity and Participation: A Study of Mexican-Americans, Blacks, and Whites

Political participation of ethnic minorities in the 1980s

“…controlling for demog raphic and related determinants of activity wipes out the effect of Latino ethnicity, confirming the results of Antunes and Gaitz (1975). In the case of Latinos , then, our projections have some plausibility.…”

“…Previous studies have sho�m that these factors can account for significant differences in minority and white participation rates (Antunes and Gaitz, 1975;Brischetto and de la Garza, 1983;Buehler, 1977) . Respondents are, however, often reticent about reporting income; in this survey 17 percent declined to answer the family income question.…”

Genetics and the Social Science Explanation of Individual Outcomes

“…If we look at the specific individual-level variables that have served as outcomes in the AJS, they permit a rough, heuristic division that will prove useful for thinking about genes as causes and as parts of explanations. First are actions, whether interesting in single occurrences (e.g., vote choice [Manza and Brooks 1998], first intercourse [Bearman and Bruckner 2001]) or as a recurrent pattern over time (e.g., parental investment in children [Freese and Powell 1999], political participation [Antunes and Gaitz 1975]). Second are actors' internal states, which are often regarded as interesting for what they are taken to imply for action (thinking about divorce [Huber and Spitze 1980]) or about the causality of sociocultural forces (social attitudes [DiMaggio, Evans, and Bryson 1996], perceptions of crime rates [Quillian and Pager 2001]), but sometimes are taken as an end in themselves (alienation [Kohn 1976], job satisfaction [Gruenberg 1980]).…”

Theoretical Perspectives of Ethnicity and Outdoor Recreation: A Review and Synthesis of African-American and European-American Participation

“…In contrast to the perspectives presented thus far, however, this theory posits that blacks tend to overparticipate rather than not participate in outdoor recreation activities. Antunes and Gaitz (1975) borrowed compensation theory from the broader sociological literature on social and political participation and applied it to recreation and leisure behavior. In terms of leisure, the theory postulates that because racial and ethnic minorities tend to have relatively marginal status (less well-off in terms of income, education, wealth, access to information) in society, they participate in recreation at higher levels than whites of similar socioeconomic status.…”

“…Compensation- Antunes and Gaitz (1975) conducted an empirical investigation of compensation theory by examining social and political activities of 1,441 Houston, TX residents. The data were from a larger study conducted during 1969-70 that included general information on social and political behavior, leisure, and mental health.…”