Chapter 8 Flashcards
Culture
Acculturation
A process of changing one’s culture by incorporating elements of another culture; a mutual sharing of culture.
Ethnocentrism
Considering one’s own culture as superior and judging culturally different practices (beliefs, values, and behavior), by the standards and norms of one’s culture.
Small Group
Two or more people who interact with each other because of shared interests, goals, experiences, or needs.
Economic
The social institution with primary responsibility for regulating the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Ideology
Cultural- The dominant ideas within a culture about the way things are and should work, derived from a group’s social, economic, and political interests.
Personal- A particular body of ideas or outlook; a person’s specific worldview.
Social Welfare
The social institution in modern industrial societies that is concerned with allocating goods, services, and opportunities to enhance the social functioning of individuals and contribute to the social health of the society.
Social Class
A particular position in a societal structure of inequality.
Therapy Group
A formed group that uses an intensive group format to promote growth in its members and to assist its members in resolving emotional and behavioral problems.
Health Care
The social institution with primary responsibility for promoting the general health of a society.
Psycho-educational Group
A formed group focused on providing information and support concerning a particular problem are or issue; such groups usually meet over a short period of time.
Accomodation
Cultural- Process of partial or selective cultural change in which members of nondominant groups follow the norms, rules, and standards of the dominant culture only in specific circumstances and contexts.
Cognitive- The process of altering a schema when a new situation cannot be incorporated within an existing schema.
Bi-cultural Socialization
Process wherey members of nonmajority groups master both the dominant culture and their own culture.
Cultural Relativism
The position that behavior in a particular culture should not be judged by the standards of another culture.
Worldviews
A cognitive picture of the way things- nature, self society- actually are.
Culture of Poverty
A term coined by Oscar Lewis to describe the unique culture and ways of those who are impoverished; it has been used over time to look at impoverished people as having cultural deficits.
Structural Determinism
????? Determinism- A belief that persons are passive products of their sicrumstances, external foces, or internal urges.
Ethos
The moral and aesthetic tone, character, and quality of a people’s life; their underlying feeling toward themselves and the world.
Assimilation
Cognitive- In cognitive theory, the incorporation of new experiences into an existing schema.
Cultural- The process of change whereby individuals of one society or thnice group are culturally incorporated or absorved into another by adopting the patterns and norms of the host culture.
