Chp18-P660-673 Flashcards
Nationality
the political entity to which a person owes loyalty
Race
Some form of inherited physical make-up.
Ethnicity
a person’s historical group origins.
Socialisation?
The deliberate shaping of an individual’s cultural self.
Enculturation?
the process of learning about and participating in a culture.
Cross-cultural psychology?
The comparative study of behaviour in different cultures.
Universalism?
A theoretical position that assumes culture is a source of human diversity, but that all humans share basic psychological processes.
Equivalence?
The degree of similarity of experiences or behaviours that allows comparison of them to be meaningful.
Cognitively based feeling?
A feeling related to thoughts.
acculturation?
The process of adapting to a culture other than the one originally identified with.
humanitarian program
A scheme operated by international agencies to relocate people who are in danger of death or persecution.
Sojourner
a person who joins a cultural group for a fixed period of time that is not seen to be permanent.
cultural syndrome
A cluster of attitudes and values; customs and practises that characterise a culture.
Integration?
A form of acculturation where the old culture is valued as well as the new.
Assimilation.
A form of acculturation where the new culture is valued but not the old.