Cultural Influences Flashcards

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Cultural Effects

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The shared behaviors and customs learned from the institutions in society.

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Ethnocentrism

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Evaluating others from one’s own cultural point of view.

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Emic Approach

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Approach that is culture-specific, focusing on a single culture on its own terms.

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Etic Approach

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Approach that is cross-cultural, searching for generalities across cultures.

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F-scale

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scale developed at Univ. of California, Berkeley, to measure a person’s proneness to being rigid and authoritarian.

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American Dilemma

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Gunnar Myrdal’s term for the paradoxical idea that slavery was allowed and endorsed despite the claim that the United States was founded on the principle that all men are created equal.

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SES Gradient

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A phenomenon in public health in which the higher the person’s socioeconomic status, the lower that person’s risk of getting sick and dying prematurely.

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Socioeconomic Status (SES)

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measurement of one’s level of education and income

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