Social and Cultural Diversity Flashcards
cultural pluralism
minority cultural group will keep own unique cultural values
social psychology movement frontrunners
Freud, Durkheim, McDougall
levinson theory
seasons of life theory related to adult stages of crisis and development. seen as biased against women.
early adult transition entering adult world age 30 transitions settling down mid life transitions entering middle adulthood late adulthood
frustration-agression theory
john dollars and neal miller
frustration occurs when a certain goal is blocked. frustration leads to agression.
balance theory
related to festingers cognitive dissonance theory
= people strive for consistency and balance in terms of beliefs systems
mores vs folkways
mores = good and bad for welfare of people, ppl generally punished for breaking mores. Dangerous/brings harm to the group folkways = social expectations, brings embarrassment more than punishment
ethnocentrism
judging another culture based on the norms in your own culture.
ecological culture
culture often the result of practical survival behaviors related to the environment
acculturation
integrate and adopt cultural beliefs and customs from the dominate culture.
leon festinger
cognitive dissonance theory
history of multicultural counseling
brown vs board of education
emic vs etic
emic = insiders perspective of the culture etic = universalism perspective, would not alter technique based on culture, narrow minded.
alloplastic vs autoplastic
alloplastic = client can cope best by changing or altering external factors in the enviro autoplastic = change comes from the self with thoughts and behaviors
personalism in multicultural counseling
seeing the client as someone who has learned a set of survival skills rather than a diseased pt
robbers cave experiment
muzafer sherif
two groups of 11 year old boys - most effective way to reduce hostility was to give a joint goal to be completed together
