Socio cultural studies Flashcards
Studies for SIT
Sherif 1954
Drury et el 2009
Fagot aim
to determine the role that parents may play in gender-role development.
Fagot sample
- 24 families (12 with a boy and 12 with a girl)
- Each only child between 20 and 24 months
- Both parents lived at home and 20 - 30 years old
- All white
- varied in income
Fagot method
- observation checklist of 46 child behaviours and 19 reactions by parents
- 5 60-minute observations completed for each family over 5 weeks
time sampling, making note of behaviour every 60 seconds - each parent was asked to rate the 46 behaviours as more appropriate for girls, for boys, or neutral and also filled out a questionnaire on the socialisation of sex roles
Fagot results
- Boys were more likely to be left alone
- boys more positive responses when they played with blocks
- girls more negative responses when they manipulated an object
- More positive responses to girls than boys for playing with dolls
- criticised girls more when they participated in activities like running and jumping
- more positive responses to girls when they asked for help
- Fathers were more concerned with appropriate sex-typing
- both parents found more behaviours appropriate for girls only than for boys only
Fagot conclusion
- Parents reacted more favourably to the child when the child was engaged in same-sex preferred behaviour
- more likely to receive negative responses to cross-sex-preferred behaviours
- Parents gave girls more positive responses when they engaged in adult-oriented, dependent behaviour
- On the questionnaire, parents did not see asking for help as a sex-preferred behaviour; however, they were more likely to act positively toward a girl than a boy asking for help = not fully aware
Fagot strenghts
- Naturalistic = high ecological validity.
- two observers = not influenced by personal biases
Fagot limitations
- Culturally biased
- demand characteristics
- low internal validity
- small sample
- In reality, there may be more or fewer behaviours that the parents would normally criticise when they are not being observed
2 studies for cultural groups and influences on behaviour
Berry 1967
Kearins 1981
Berry aim
- based on earlier research by Barry, Child, and Bacon (1959) which suggested that hunting and fishing societies tend to be individualistic, whereas agricultural societies tend to be collectivistic
- aim of measuring the level of conformity in these two types of societies by applying a version of the Asch Paradigm.
Berry sample
- Temne of Sierra Leone = rice farming.
Inuit people of Baffin Island, Canada, = hunting and fishing - made up of people who maintained the traditional way of life and people who either had a Western education or Western employment
- Scots as a reference group - both urban and rural Scots
- approximately 120 participants in each group
Berry method
- Each individual was brought into a room by him or herself
- given a set of nine lines
- 2 practice tests
- on 3rd “Most Temne (or Inuit or Scottish) people say this line is equal in length to the one at the top” and correct answer given
- trials 4 - 6, the wrong response was given
Berry results
- Temne (collectivistic) much higher rate of conformity
- Inuits even lower rate of conformity than Scots
- no significant difference if the participants were living the traditional life or were highly exposed to Western culture
Berry strengths
- The directions were given in their own language by a native interpreter
- control condition to strengthen the internal validity of the study
- highly replicable
Berry limitations
- lacks ecological validity
- Quasi-experiment = causality cannot be determined
- questions of temporal validity, more globalised world = more access to media could be different
- ecological fallacy = lead to stereotyping about cultural groups
2 studies for the impacts of globalisation on stereotypes
novotny and polonsky 2011
Chiu 2009
aim of norasakkunit and uchida
applied Berry & Sam’s acculturation model to explain the origins of hikikomori
2 studies for the impacts of globalisation on acculturation
Norasakkunkit and Uchida 2014
norasakkunit and uchida sample
195 Japanese uni students
norasakkunit and uchida method
3 tests:
1. standardised test to see whether high risk or low risk for hikikomori
2. measure attitudes about social harmony and conformity, looked at three levels: perception of their current self, ideal self, Japanese society
3. measure local identity (high social harmony and collectivism) and global identity (high individualism and achievement)
norasakkunit and uchida results
- both groups agreed social harmony and conformity highly valued by Japanese society
- high risk ranked social harmony values much lower than the low-risk students
- high-risk scored lower than low-risk on local identity and global identity
norasakkunit and uchida conclusion
local culture may alienate many Japanese youths who decide not to conform to the cultural norms but can’t access the globalised culture so they withdraw from society
norasakkunit and uchida strengths
Large sample
norasakkunit and uchida weaknesses
- correlation study = no cause and effect determined
- Biased sample = not generalisable
- Analogous approach = students don’t actually have hikikomori
- Data self reported = demand characteristics
- Doesn’t explain why mainly in japan and not in other marginalised groups world wide