Social and Cultural Foundations Flashcards
Define Multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism is the study of race, culture and ethnicity.
Define culture.
Culture is the shared patterns of learned practices, communication patterns, morals, and aesthetic standards in a given group or community.
Define Enculturation
Enculturation is the process of acquiring the patterns and characteristics of the given culture.
The process of retaining one’s cultural practices while incorporating the elements of the dominant US culture is referred to as ________ ___________.
Cultural Pluralism
The ACA has a branch which deals exclusively with multicultural issues. The branch is AMCD which stands for _________
The Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development.
When a person experiences conflicting thoughts, feelings or behaviors due to divided cultural loyalties, this is referred to as _____ _______
Cultural Conflict.
_________ refers to the majority culture.
Macroculture.
_______ _______ refers to the fact that a behavior cannot be assessed as good or bad except within the context of a given culture.
Cultural Relativism.
In order to diagnose a client from a different culture, the counselor will need what?
Information regarding the client’s culture.
Books, paintings, homes and tools of a culture are examples of what?
Material Culture.
What is the opposite of material culture, and give an example.
Non-material culture. An example would be customs, values, humor, social ideas, and traditions.
A counselor’s understanding, respect and use of cultural relativism is the opposite of cultural tunnel vision. It is known as ________ _________.
Cultural Awareness.
In the US, each socioeconomic group represents a ________
Culture.
Race and Ethnicity are different. Race is based on _______.
Genetics. You can visibly tell a person’s race, whereas you can’t always tell a person’s ethnicity.
______ _______ is a term used to describe the cultural patterns common to a country.
National Culture.
When a group of people vehemently opposes the values of the macroculture, they are said to be members of a ____________
Counterculture.
Name 3 theorists that are often mentioned as being instrumental in the early years of the social psychology movement.
- Freud.
- Durkheim
- McDougall.
Who is considered one of the founders of modern sociology, and wrote Rules of Sociological Method?
Emile Durkheim.
In addition to writing a book about the Sociological Method, and being one of the founders, Emile Durkheim was known for his work and study of what topic?
Suicide.
Who is the Father of Hormic Psychology (which is a Darwinian concept about individuals in or out of groups have innate drives and suggested eugenics in order to make a stronger gene pool?
William McDougall.
Which 2 theorists (one believing that sex and aggression drive behavior, and the other based his theory on fish who continued fighting after the target was removed from the tank) believed in “innate aggressor theory?”
- Freud
2. Lorenz
Followers of this theory believe that aggression is LEARNED, and that children who see violence in adults may mimic it.
- Social Learning Theory.
Albert Bandura is known for Social Learning Theory, which is also referred to as ________ ___________.
Observational Learning.
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 permit.
It permitted black people to have basic rights such as eating in restaurants, hotels, etc. It prohibited discrimination based on race, gender, religion and national origin.
Who wrote Seasons of a Man’s Life and the sequel, Seasons of a Woman’s Life and believed that midlife crises occurred in men between 40-45 and women 5 years earlier?
Daniel Levinson.
What are the 3 factors which enhance interpersonal attraction?
- Close proximity
- Physical attraction
- Similar beliefs
_______ is the study of proximity and relates to personal space, interpersonal distance and territoriality.
Proxemics.
______ ________ studied proxemics and discovered that friendship and attraction were highest for apartment dwellers living next door to one another. (also known as propinquity)
Leon Festinger.
Explain the concept of contextualism.
Behavior must be assessed in the context of the in the culture which the behavior occurs.
Who is the Father of Guidance, who also happened to acknowledge significance of culture?
Frank Parsons.
Carol Gilligan criticized Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of Moral Development because____________.
It was more applicable to boys than girls.
The ______ _______ movement helped to abet the multicultural counseling movement.
Civil Rights Movement
Intercultural counseling is just another name for _______ _______
Multicultural Counseling.
What were Arthur Jensen’s views on ethnicity and IQ?
He tried to prove that black people had lower IQ’s due to genetic factors.
What is Tarkoff’s Duty to Warn?
This resulted in the counselor’s duty to warn an intended victim who might be the target of danger or violence.
A term that’s synonymous with the probable outcome of a case is ________.
Prognosis.
When a counselor speaks of what he or she believes must transpire from a psychotherapeutic standpoint, he or she is referring to what?
Recommendations.
Name an issue with the DSM
Even though it lists a bunch of diagnoses, it doesn’t recommend any particular forms of treatment.
Research suggests that poor economic conditions correlate highly with ________.
Aggression.
In most cases, a client would prefer a counselor of the same ______ as he or she.
Race and similar cultural background.
The Frustration-Aggression theory is associated with which 2 theorists?
John Dollard and Neal Miller.
Explain the Frustration-Aggression Theory.
Dollard and Miller’s theory states that when a person is blocked from what he’s trying to reach (a goal) this breeds frustration.
How would Albert Ellis, the Father of Rational Emotive Behavioral Theory feel about the Frustration-Aggression Theory.
He’d disagree, because he thinks going from frustration to aggression transpires due to the client’s irrational thought process rather than an automatic response or biological drive.
The term that describe someone losing their identity is _______.
Deindividuation.
What have studies found about the relation to violence and access to weapons?
The presence of a weapon increases the probability and levels of violence.
What is the number one method of suicide in this country?
Death by firearm.
Leon Festinger is popular for what balance theory?
Cognitive dissonance.