Acculturation and multiculturism 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
–> Changes that an individual experiences as a result that one’s cultural or ethnic group is undergoing
Acculturating groups
Ethnocultural groups: voluntary contact and sedentary mobility (Friesland in NL)
Indigenous people: involuntary contact and sedentary mobility (Native American Indians)
Immigrants/sojourners: voluntary contact and migrant mobility
Refugees: involuntary contact and migrant mobility
One dimensional conceptualization of acculturation
- Cultural maintenance
- cultural adoption
–> The more you acquire the host culture, the more you lose the heritage culture
–> both cultures change, and individuals from both groups can change as well
Cultural maintenance
Maintaining characteristics of own (heritage) culture
Cultural adoption
Adopting characteristic of the culture of the host society of settlement
Acculturation orientations
Maintenance vs. adaption
Integration: + maintenance / + adaptation
Separation: + maintenance / - adaptation
Assimilation: - maintencance / + adaptation
Marginalization: - maintenance / - adaptation
- maintenance of the original culture
- adaptation to the new/host culture
Integration
high in maintenance and high in adaptation
–> You’re skilled in both cultures, you speak both languages and you think of yourself as belonging to both groups
Separation
High in maintenance and low in adaptation
–> you don’t want to take over the ways of the host society. You want to maintain the culture that is your heritage
Assimilation
Low in maintenance and high in adaption
–> you do not want to maintain your culture of origin, but you are instead set to take over the culture of the host society
Marginalization
low in maintenance and low in adaptation
–> This is the most dysfunctional way of handeling this strategy
The fusion model of acculturation
Cultural maintencance, cultural adaptation and new culture
- limitation: the accultarated choices that you make are not global choices, so you don’t just make one choice. You can drill down basically from the super ordinate level, which is the public and the private domain, to more specific live domains
Domain specificity of acculturation
- superordinate level (public and private domain)
- ordinate level (more specific life domains)
- subordinate level (specific situations)
Acculturation framework
Acculturation conditions + acculturation orientations + acculturation outcomes
Acculturation conditions
- characteristics of the receiving society
- characteristics of the society of origin
- characteristics of the immigrant group
- personal characteristics
Acculturation outcomes
- psychological well-being (stress, mood states, acceptance, satisfaction)
- socio-cultural competence in ‘mainstream’ culture
- socio-cultural competence in ‘ethnic’ culture
Assessment of acculturation
- one statement (unidimensional)
- two statements (bidimensional)
- four statements (four categories based on two dimensions )
- Vignettes
Vignettes
- Likert format repsonses
- a brief description is given of a person who displays a certain acculturation orientation
- participants indicate level of agreement
Acculturation conditions
State ideologies and immigrant policies / attitudes / acculturation strategies
–> influence in interction the outcomes of acculturation processes
- characteristics of the receiving society
- characteristics og the society of origin
- characteristics of the immigrant group
- personal characteristics
Plural societies
Different cultural groups residing together within a shared social and political framework
–> many people still think of their society as unicultural (or strive for such a society)
- melting pot
- multicultural
Melting pot culture
Minorities adapt to the mainstream culture
Multicultural
Ethnocultural groups retain identity
State integration policies
- pluralism
- civic ideology
- assimilation ideology
- ethnist ideology