Chapter 7: Understanding Human Diversity In Context

Question 1

What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

Answer 1

Race= physical characteristics
Ethnicity= social identity, what you define yourself as

Question 2

Identify 3 dimensions of diversity that are receiving greater attention in community psych

Answer 2

Ability/Disability
Sexual orientation 
Age
Spirituality and religion 
Localities

Question 3

What is acculturation?

Answer 3

Changes in individuals related to the contact between two or more cultures that the person experiences

Eg. Moving to England for school

Question 4

What is enculturation?

Answer 4

Developing within one’s culture or origin, not involving change through relations with another culture

Question 5

What is psychological acculturation?

Answer 5

Identifying with one, both, or none of the cultures they are experiencing

Question 6

When does marginalization happen?

Answer 6

When individuals do not or cannot identify with either their culture of origin or with the dominant culture

Question 7

Where could institutional oppression occur?

Answer 7

Workplaces

Schools

Question 8

True or false, intersectionality examines how dimensions of social identity overlap

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What is culture?

Answer 9

Meanings and experiences shared by a group and communicated across generations