Chapter 6 Flashcards
Identify as a member of some groups
Ingroup
To distinguish these ingroups from outgroups is so PREVALENT in human thinking that it has been called as a
Üniversal human tendency
Have played a role in supporting or diminishing this inclination to define pthers as either in or out of our group
Internet and social media
Related to the distinction between ingroup and outgroup membership is the
Concept of one’s identity or self-concept
Aspect of identity
Cultural identity
Social identity
Personal identity
Process of cultural identity formation
Unexamined cultural identity
Cultural identity search
Cultural identity achievement
Unexamined cultural identity
There is little interest in exploring cultural issues
Characteristics are taken for granted
These people lack awareness of cultural differences
Young children
These people may not want to identify with any particular group
Teenagers
Cultural identity search
This stage involves exploration and questioning about one’s culture in order to learn about it
C.I search
For some indis, a ___ PRECIPITATES this stage, whereas for others, it just begins with _____ or ____ of everyday experiences.
Turning pt or crucial event
Growing awareness
Reinterpretation
Characterized by an increased degree of talking with family and friends about cultural issues
Learning
C.i search
There may be an ______ of this stage that may involve____ and even ____ directed at other groups
Emotional component
Anger
Outrage
C. i achievement
Characterized by a clear confident acceptance of oneself
Internalization of one’s cultural identity.
C.I achievement
People in this stage have developed ways of dealing with —- and —- so they do not INTERNALIZE other’s NEGATIVE PERCEPTION
Stereotype and discrimination
C.I achievement
They have increased ____ and____
Self- confideny
Positive psychological adjustment
Characteristics of cultural identity
Central
Dynamic
Multi faced
Cultural identities are CENTRAL to a ____
Person’s sense of self
When a component of your identity becomes conscious and important to you, or ___ your experiences get filtered through that portion of your identity
Activated
Dynamic component
Changing social context
Shifts
____Long expressed frustration at peers who have presumed that yhey are _____ and would speak with an _____
4th and 5th gen asian americans
Foreign born
Asian accent
At any given moment you have many COMPONENTS that make up your identity
Multifaceted components
In CODE SWITCHING, a man with both chinese and African-American cultural heritages may enact ______ inflected speech around his A-A family snd friends while ___\these behavior when talking with his asian relatives
AA inflected speech
De emphasizing
A learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, norms, and social practices that affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people
Culture
3 features in the way all humans process info about others are important to our understanding of intercultural competence:
- Every moment people are presented with hundreds of different perceptual stimuli.
- Most people tend to think that other people perceive, evaluate, and reason about the world in the same way they do
- Humans simplify the organizing and processing and organizing of information from the environment
Info processing results in a simplification of the world so that prior experiences are used as the basis for determining both the categories and the attributes of the events.
Stereotyping
The notion that the beliefs values norms and social practices of one’s own culture are superior to those of others
Ethnocentrism