Week 7: Community, Culture, and Media

Question 1

Is a sense of community important during adolescence?

Answer 1

YES!
- helps to feel a close connection and shared purpose that unites the person with others in the group

Question 2

Is a sense of community affected based on if you live in suburban or urban areas?

Answer 2

YES

Question 3

Why is engaging in your community during adolescence important?

Answer 3

• facilitates engagement in community
• builds up their trust and acceptence
• develop a collective identity (we-focus)
• can bring energy and enthusiasm to the community

Question 4

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 4

tendency to see the world from the standpoint of one’s own cultural values and assumptions

Question 5

What is the difference between individualist and collectivist society?

Answer 5

individualist = me-focus, individual goals

collectivist = we-focus, group oriented goals, “take care of the group and the group will take care of you”

Question 6

What two things transmit culture across generations?

Answer 6

1. Socialization
2. enculturation

Question 7

What is enculturation?

Answer 7

process by which children and adolescents acquire the attitudes, beliefs, and psychological aspects of their culture

Question 8

What is an ethnocultural group?

Answer 8

group of people who share characteristics (race, religion, languages, etc..)

Question 9

What are 3 important aspects to ethnicity?

Answer 9

1. ethnocultural identity
2. cultural identity
3. levels of prejudice, discrimination or exclusion from majority

Question 10

what is ethnocultural identity?

Answer 10

membership in the group

Question 11

what is cultural identity

Answer 11

attitudes, values, and behaviours that distinguish it from another group

Question 12

What is acculturation?

Answer 12

where you accept or reject own culture

many assimilate to majority cultures

Question 13

What are 4 ways that immigrants and members of ethnocultural minorities relate to the majority culture?

Answer 13

1. assimilation
2. marginalization
3. separation
4. integration (bicultural)

Question 14

What is “assimilation” in terms of social diversity?

Answer 14

give up their own culture to identify with majority culture
ex: indigenous populations give up their culture to identify as being apart of canadian culture

Question 15

What is “marginalization” in terms of social diversity?

Answer 15

reject both their own and majority culture

sees the most negative outcomes :( (alienation)

Question 16

What is “separation” in terms of social diversity?

Answer 16

identify only with their own culture, reject majority

Question 17

What is “integration” in terms of social diversity?

Answer 17

identify with both their own and majority culture

has most positive outcomes

Question 18

Do adolescents or immigrant parents acculturate faster?

Answer 18

adolescents

Question 19

Does adolescents autonomy, family closeness, and trying to learn a new culture clash?

Answer 19

YES

Question 20

Can goals of your culture conflict with those of majority culture?

Answer 20

YES

Question 21

What are the benefits to embracing ones own ethnocultural identity?

Answer 21

• benefits society
  -gain cultural resilience
• better identity formation
• increased mental health
• economic growth
• cultural awareness and acceptance
• link to national belonging

Question 22

IS SES just family income?

Answer 22

NO!
also includes:
- living conditions
- access to resources
- knowldege about how institutions work

Question 23

Can SES have an impact on development of adolescent?

Answer 23

YES

Question 24

Do ethnocultural minorities face lower SES than majority in Canada?

Answer 24

Yes
more limited opportunities and rescources
racial injustice and biases

Question 25

How does low SES impact them?

Answer 25

-less resources in impoverished neighbourhoods –> increased risk of partaking in risky behaviours early, less active
- schools lack funding —> dont get as many high educated teachers
- more unstructured, unsupervised time
- parental difficulties–> unemployment
- difficulties with development all around

Question 26

What are 6 reasons why teens use media?

Answer 26

1. diversion –> distraction
2. cognition
3. social utility –> connect with others
4. withdrawl
5. personal identity
6. high sensation –> “dopamine hit”

Question 27

What are 3 theories showing the effects of media exposure?

Answer 27

1. Cultivation theory
2. social cognitive theory
3. schematic information processing theory

Question 28

What is “cultivation theory”?

Answer 28

media constantly retells a selective and biased set of myths that help define social thinking in a particular society

ex: people don’t see many active people on television, their “reality” is that people no longer need to be active 30 or so minutes per day

Question 29

What is social cognitive theory (bandura)?

Answer 29

people learn from what other people do

Question 30

What is schematic information processing theory?

Answer 30

people form schemas and use them to interpret situations
- affects social judgements and behaviour
- media keeps showing new schemas and can easily activate and modify schemas a person already has

ex: what a girl should wear to be liked based on what insta influencers post and their follower count

Question 31

What are some negative effects of media exposure?

Answer 31

• media violence linked to aggressiveness
• sexuality (getting info about sex, porn, sexualizing women, sexting, distorting how adult sexual relationships should be)
• misinformation
• body image issues (social comparison)

Question 32

What are some positive effects of media exposure?

Answer 32

• access to so much stuff to gain and spread knowledge
• connect with others
• you can be a media creator or producer (put our skills to work!)–> have a better understanding of platforms than some older generations in different workforces now