cultural influences on individual behaviour

Question 1

socialization

Answer 1

• process of learning the social norms of a culture
• happens through enculturation and acculturation

Question 2

enculturation

Answer 2

• lifelong process
• helps a person acquire social values, norms, behaviours, roles, expectations, language etc
• first culture, conscious and unconscious

Question 3

acculturation

Answer 3

• socialization and psychological adjustment when 2 cultures come into contact
• acquire second or third culture, merging

Question 4

acculturation behaviours, berry (2005)
assimilation

Answer 4

• adapting to the new culture and leaving the old culture behind

Question 5

acculturation behaviours, berry (2005)
separation

Answer 5

• avoiding interactions with new culture and holding on to original

Question 6

acculturation behaviours, berry (2005)
integration

Answer 6

• becoming bi-cultural, integrating with new but maintaining old

Question 7

acculturation behaviours, berry (2005)
marginalization

Answer 7

• leaving original culture, struggling to integrate to new, discrimination

Question 8

evaluation of berry’s model of acculturation

Answer 8

• doesn’t acknowledge national culture is complex and not homogenous
• studies into acculturation use self report methods
• some studies shown aiming separation, higher life satisfaction
• older theory of acculturation is unidimensional

Question 9

possible paths of acculturation

Answer 9

• separation
• integration
• assimilation
• marginalisation