Culture Flashcards
Enculturation
Refers to the culture being learnt through contact with family, friends, media, classmates
Happens to everyone irrespective of migration
Acculturation
This refers to the process of cultural change that takes place when an individual or a group comes in continuous contact with a culturally distinct group.
Four types of acculturation
Assimilation
Integration
Marginalization
Separation
Comparative psychiatry
Refers to the study of mental illness in different socio cultural settings
Ethnicity
Is often defined by a set of cultural patterns, as roles, values, beliefs, cognitive styles and norms
Assimilation
Refers to partial adaptations of a new culture without giving up all of ones origin completely, seen commonly in migrants
Integration
Refers to high retention of ones own cultural values and high adoption of the practices of the new culture
Separation
Refers to high retention of one’s own cultural values and low adoption of the practices of the new culture.
Marginalization
Refers to low retention of ones own cultural values and low adoption of the practices of the new culture
Assimilation
Refers to partial adaptations of a new culture without giving up all of ones origin completely, seen commonly in migrants
Integration
Refers to high retention of ones own cultural values and high adoption of the practices of the new culture
Separation
Refers to high retention of one’s own cultural values and low adoption of the practices of the new culture.
Marginalization
Refers to low retention of ones own cultural values and low adoption of the practices of the new culture
Cultural bereavement
Self limiting grieving response developed by an individual on leaving his cultures
Cultural diffusion, syncretism
The spread of cultural traits through contacts across societies
