Final Flashcards
Attainment of wealth, honors, and position, achieving what you want to achieve, process of achieving goals
Success
A perspective that focuses on the social and cultural context of one’s thoughts and actions
Sociocultural Theory
Omnipresent social influences that surround us
Social forces
Competencies that allow people to interact with others in a way that respects and values differences
Diversity skills
Awareness, understanding, and skills that allow us to think through and value human differences
Diversity consciousness
Native American students tend to be __________, which means they like to work with others to achieve a common goal and are more sensitive to the needs of others
Field dependent
____________ students prefer to work independently and compete for individual recognition
Field independent
The process by which a person adjusts to another cultural environment without sacrificing his or her own cultural identity
Transculturation
Groupings of people structured to achieve one or a number of goals
Organizations
Going along uncritically with the expectations of a group, which in turn limits understanding of an issue
Groupthink
Creating an environment that enables everyone to contribute their full potential
Managing Diversity
Any activity which promotes awareness and knowledge and builds the skills necessary for operating in a multicultural, global environment
Diversity training/education
Integration of online and traditional face-to-face learning
Blended learning
Set of attitudes and skills that make it possible for organizations and staff not only to acknowledge cultural differences, but also incorporate these difference in working with people from various cultures
Cultural competence
What is the difference between cultural competence and diversity consciousness?
Diversity consciousness emphasizes competencies need to be more holistic and transformational
Lack of contact with cultures outside of our own, promotes insensitivity to cultural differences
Cultural encapsulation
A skill set that allows us to access, evaluate, and create different forms of media
Media literacy
Lifelong process of social interaction
Socialization
Biological makeup including inborn and genetic traits
Nature
Aspects of the environment that mold and shape us such as schools, families, and peer groups
Nurture
Exclusion that results from being seen as an outsider
Social marginality
Degree to which we are willing to interact and develop relationships with certain racial and ethnic groups
Social distance
A person’s awareness of his or her own perspective and the perspective of others
Double consciousness
Unequal distribution of resources such as wealth, power, and prestige
Social inequality
Category of people who share similar amounts of wealth, power, and prestige
Social class
Benefits in life we have through no effort of our own
Unearned privileges
The ability to freely question and evaluate ideas and information in a purposeful, goal-directed manner
Critical thinking
Process by which people transfer information, ideas, attitudes, and feelings to each other
Communication
Anything that represent something else
Symbol
Process in which messages created in one culture must be processed and interpreted in another culture
Intercultural communication
Refers to the many languages spoken in the United States and throughout the world
Linguistic diversity
Term that refers to discrimination based on language
Linguicism
The imparting or interchange of information through technology, such as cell phones and computers
Electronic communication
Culture in which we can create and see, touch, or feel
Material culture
A person who spends time living with people in order to research their customs
Ethnographer
Refers to one’s position
Status
The ability to influence people and bring about change
Power
Patterns in the way people use language
Dialect
Brief, often subtle and unintentional biases that people communicate by virtue of what they say, do, and the environments they create
Daily insults or indignities that demean and stigmatize people who are perceived as different, can migrate from real life to virtual life
Microaggressions