Mexican immigrant women come to the United States in pursuit of what they call la buena vida (the good life) for themselves and for their children. The research described here attempts to better understand what la buena vida means to these women in terms of what they perceive as necessary to achieve this ideal. While the theoretical construct of acculturation is typically used to study what happens to individuals transitioning from one cultural orientation to another, this study utilizes a cognitive approach to resolve some of the inherent problems in acculturation research—specifically, the failure to define or measure culture or to link culture to the individual. Cultural consensus analysis is used to empirically describe how la buena vida is conceptualized among Mexican-born women living in Birmingham, Alabama, and areas of both agreement and disagreement regarding the domain are explored.

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La Buena Vida：阿拉巴马州墨西哥移民妇女的多中心文化模式

墨西哥移民妇女来到美国是为了她们自己和她们的孩子追求她们所谓的 la buena vida（美好生活）。这里描述的研究试图更好地理解 la buena vida 对这些女性的意义，因为她们认为实现这一理想所必需的东西。虽然文化适应的理论结构通常用于研究从一种文化取向过渡到另一种文化取向的个体会发生什么，但本研究利用认知方法来解决文化适应研究中的一些固有问题——特别是未能定义或衡量文化或将文化与个人联系起来。文化共识分析用于经验性地描述生活在阿拉巴马州伯明翰的墨西哥出生的妇女如何概念化，