Cultural Influences

Question 1

Cultural Effects

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Ethnocentrism

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Emic Approach

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Etic Approach

Answer 4

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

Question 5

F-scale

Answer 5

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

Question 6

American Dilemma

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

SES Gradient

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Socioeconomic Status (SES)

Answer 8

measurement of one’s level of education and income