Test #6 Culture Flashcards
Identity
How people decibe themsleves or how others desibe them
- People describe us and we have to decide if these idetoties are true for us
Trioartute model
Shows that identity has many dimensions
Individual level - focuses on persons uniquness (never shared with others)
Group level - culture we are born into (look at difefrences between ourselves and group we are comparing to)
- Ex. Race, religous, ethinicty etc.
Universal level - We are all human –> means we share many similarities
Culturally Deaf people
People who use ASL + feel strongly that being deaf is a beneift/gain + Socialize with other culturally deaf people + live visual way of life
Core identity vs. Personal idetity
Both = focus on how indiviuals identofy themselves
Where do personal idetities start
Personal idetoties start within the family of origin –> teach the child about family’s culture/ethinicty
Ex. Deaf child in deaf family will absorb deaf idetoty because that is the culture of the family
Hearing kids with Deaf parents
Might start off culturally deaf + first language might me ASL –> as they get older they will be more exposed to english and they will start to build idetoty as hearing child
- Might end with core idetoty that is combination of deaf and hearing
Hearing parents and deaf culture
Hearing parents dont usually know a lot about defa culture –> how deaf child integrates a deaf idetity depends on how the family talks about the deaf part
- How much exposure child has to deaf culture may inflinve how the child creates a deaf idetoty
Deaf children in hearing family
Deaf is not always a core idetoty (espcially at first) - core idetity might be more ethnically based
How do deaf children in hearing family build deaf idetity
If interactions with other deaf people are positive and the family is supportive then it is easier for child to build a deaf idetity
IF kids make fun of child –> it is harder for them to feel positive about a deaf idetity
Catagories of Deaf idetities
Deaf and deaf (soem aboid the word deaf)
- resrecahers have tried to develop frameoworkds that explain the deaf idetity catagories
Disability Frameowork
Uses medical model of deafness as a disability to desirbe idetity catagories
Defined deaf children has having a disbility
In model:
Hearing idetofying = able bodied
Deaf idetifying = Disabled
Dual idetofying = idetofy with with both able bodied and disabled worlds
***Noted that when parents minimize deaf kids idetifying as deaf and don’t use sign their children could feel infiroir
Sociolinguistic model
Describes deaf people as cultural minorities
How did Weinberg and Sterrit make their model
Developed teh Deaf idetoty scale using iteams that would plave deaf kids into the three identity catagories –> found taht most leables as dual idetofication
Social Idetoty Theory
Sugghests that group realtionships and social orientations are important for idetity
- If minority status person is not comfertable in. minority group they won’t join group BUT if they see group as positive they they will join group
Might start unfortable –> then start to be more comfertable –> then change behviors to be part of group –> then be proud in idetity
When do deaf people join deaf groups
When they participate in programs with deaf peers, feel the program is right for them, connect with peers, and can communicate with freinds
When do peer choose deaf peers or hearing peers
Those with proud hearing loss and know sign prefer deaf peers and those who predered spoken language/less severe hearing loss prefered hearing peers
SHOWS - communication compentency helps support relationships
Racial Identity development Framework
Focuses on how members of opressed racial or thnic groups develop a positive idetity
Stage 1 - conform to majority culture
Stage 2 - Dissocance/Encounter - understand will never part of majority and being in minorty is accepatble
Stage 3 - resistence and immersion - person reists majority culture
Stage 4 - Internalization - think about balance between positives and magatives of the majority and minority culture
Stage 5 - Integrative Awareness - person apprectites majority and all cultures - more flexible to move between cultures
Deaf idetity development framework
Deaf people = minority group –> means racial idetioty development model can be applied to deaf people
Stage 1 - conform to hearing culture (spoken lanahihes and auditory technology) (be freinds with hearing people and no ASL)
Stage 2 - Hard to make hearing freinds (harder to have spoken converstaions) - doesn’t feel a sense of belonging
Stage 3 - Realization that tryiongto be hearing is not worth the struggle (hearing people are not inclusive) ; might meet soemone in the deaf community –> sees how connected deaf people are + good in ASL –> leads to anger that they tried to become hearing ; now love eveyrthing deaf and reject everything hearing
Stage 4 - Bicultural stage –> minority idetoty is internalied –> person sees pros and cons in both cultures (respect for sign and spoken languauge)
Do deaf people often follow the deaf idetity development sequence
No - many defa people do not follow development sequence
- Deaf kids of deaf parents = born into deaf culture (start at stage 3) –> when get exposed to hearing we world they become bicultural
- When exposed to heraing world they might start as marginal
Adjustment of with vs. without implants
Kids with and without implants are equally well adjusted (whether they arehearing accularated or deaf)
Key for integrating into community
Key = ease of communivation
Accultration Model
Based on the IMmigrant exeprince - focuses on how immigrants relate to home culture while lezrning to deal with new culture
Need to adjustti new culture - process is called acculturation
Assimilation stradegy
Be like new culture as much as possible ; embarssed about home culture
