Acculturation Flashcards
Acculturation
Comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first-hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups
–> Changing a culture with another culture
10-item acculturation index
- respondent lived in town rather than in the countryside
- respondent had had military service experience
- respondent owned a TV set
- respondent reported a close Anglo friendship
- English was spoken as the main language in the respondents home of orientation
- English is spoken as the main language in the respondent’s present home
- respondent has membership in a formal group, club, or organization
- respondent had lived in two or more other communities
- respondent voted in the 1960 election
- respondent lived in a nuclear rather than extended family
Assesment of acculturation index
‘These changes can be conceptualized as an attempt, conscious or unconscious, on the part of the subordinate group to obtain through adoption of the dominant group’s culture social acceptance, respect. prestige, physical pleasure, and other benefits of full group membership and participation’
Who acculturate
The factors that play into it are mobility and voluntariness
- ethnoculural groups
- indigenent people
- immigrants and sojourners
- refugees and asylum seekers
Ethnocultural groups
Groups that voluntarily acculturate with new coming cultures
Indigenent people
Groups who do not want to acculturate with new cultures in their own area
Immigrants (permanent) and sojourners (temporary)
Groups who voluntarily acculturate and do so by moving to other cultural spaces
Refugees (permanent) and asylum seekers (temporary)
Groups who do not want to acculturate but have to move due to them seeking refugee etc.
Cultural maintenance
Maintaining characteristics of own (heritage) culture
Cultural adoption
Adopting characteristics of the culture of the (host) society of settlement
Unidimensional conceptualization of acculturation
Acculturation as a line from cultural maintenance to cultural adoption
What does the unidimensional conceptualization of acculturation imply
- loss of heritage culture, oneway street (you only move toward adoption)
- bicultural competence only as a transition
Bidimensionl conceptualization of acculturation
People can switch between their own and the new culture in different ways
- integration
- seperation
- assimilation
- marginalization
Integration of cultures
High amount of maintenace of own culture and high amounts of adaption to the new culture as well
Seperation of cultures
High amount of maintenance of own culture and low amounts of adaption to the new culture
Assimilation of cultures
Low amounts of maintenance of own culture and high amounts of adaption to the new culture
Marginalization of cultures
Low amounts of maintenance of own culture and low amounts of adaption to the new culture
Majority group acculturation orientations
- Interactive Acculturation Model IAM
Two dimensions that can lead to:
- integration
- assimilation
- segregation
- exclusion or individualism
Dimension 1 op IAM
Do you find it acceptable that immigrants maintain their cultural identity
Dimension 2 of IAM
Do you accept that immigrants adopt the cultural identity of the host community?
Integration of dimensions
Accept both the maintenance and adoption af culture in immigrants
Assimilation of the dimensions
Accepts the adoption of culture, but not the maintenance of own culture in immigrants
Segregation of the dimensions
Accepts the maintenance of own culture, but the adoption of the host culture in immigrants
Exclusion and individualism in the dimensions
Accepts neither the adoption or maintenance of either cultures in immigrants
Fusion Model
- LaFromboise
Answers the question of the possiblity of new cultures when two cultures meet –> It is possible
- the combination of cultural maintenance and adoption can lead to new cultures