Chap 7: Community, Culture and Media

Question 1

what is community?

Answer 1

a unified body of people that include them:

• living in a common area
• w/ a common interest or background
• linked by common history
• of diverse background in an interacting population

Question 2

what does community create for adolescents?

Answer 2

• a sense of belonging
• feeling of purpose
• being acknowledged and valued
• connects people together

Question 3

what is an individualistic culture?

Answer 3

• people are thought to be unique, separate, and autonomous individuals/ their own personal rights, goals, and needs.
• they put their own goals first before the group

Question 4

what is a collectivist culture?

Answer 4

• people are seen in terms of their relationship to groups such as their family, tribe, religious co-believers, or country.
• activities are guided by the goals, norms, and beliefs of the group
• they put the groups needs first before their own needs

Question 5

what are the 4 ways to relate to majority culture? (AMSI)

Answer 5

1. Assimilation: giving up their own culture to identify with the majority culture
2. Marginalization: rejecting both their own culture and the majority culture
3. Separation: identifying only with their own culture and rejecting the majority culture
4. Integration: keeping their own culture while still trying to blend in with the majority culture

Question 6

what are the 3 levels that impact ethnicity?

Answer 6

1. the individual (their sense of membership in the group)
2. the group (their values and behaviour that distinguish them from other groups)
3. the society: (acceptance, prejudice and discrimination)

Question 7

what is social class?

Answer 7

a person’s place or status in society, as indicated by wealth, income, education, living conditions, prestige, and influence

Question 8

what are the 4 impacts on adolescent children in poverty?

Answer 8

1. community
2. schools
3. peers
4. parents