Tiger Mom touts immigrant outcomes as roadmap to parenting success
Tiger Mom touts immigrant outcomes as roadmap to parenting success
- March 5, 2014
- Research by Jennifer Lee, sociology professor, is featured in Medill Reports March 5, 2014
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From Medill Reports:
Author Amy Chua doubled down on the theories of her controversial new book “The Triple
Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in
America,” co-written with her husband Jed Rubenfeld…One of Chua’s most vocal critics
has been Jennifer Lee, a University of California, Irvine sociologist, who penned
an op-ed discussing how success should be measured in terms of not just a person's
achievements as an adult but where they have come from, often from low-income backgrounds.
Lee’s study with her colleague Min Zhou, a sociologist at University of California,
Los Angeles, revealed that Mexican-Americans were most successful immigrant group
in Los Angeles measuring success as “progress from generation to generation.”
For the full story, please visit http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=228629.
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