The Ticos: Culture and Social Change in Costa Rica

About this book

Written with the perspective of more than a half-century of firsthand observation this social and cultural history describes how Costa Ricas economy government educational and health-care systems family structures religion and other institutions have evolved and how this evolution has affected - and reflected - peoples daily lives their beliefs and their values. The authors are particularly concerned with change and continuity since the economic crisis of the early 1980s and the structural adjustment that followed.