Week 7: Community, Culture, and Media Flashcards
Is a sense of community important during adolescence?
YES!
- helps to feel a close connection and shared purpose that unites the person with others in the group
Is a sense of community affected based on if you live in suburban or urban areas?
YES
Why is engaging in your community during adolescence important?
- facilitates engagement in community
- builds up their trust and acceptence
- develop a collective identity (we-focus)
- can bring energy and enthusiasm to the community
What is ethnocentrism?
tendency to see the world from the standpoint of one’s own cultural values and assumptions
What is the difference between individualist and collectivist society?
individualist = me-focus, individual goals
collectivist = we-focus, group oriented goals, “take care of the group and the group will take care of you”
What two things transmit culture across generations?
- Socialization
- enculturation
What is enculturation?
process by which children and adolescents acquire the attitudes, beliefs, and psychological aspects of their culture
What is an ethnocultural group?
group of people who share characteristics (race, religion, languages, etc..)
What are 3 important aspects to ethnicity?
- ethnocultural identity
- cultural identity
- levels of prejudice, discrimination or exclusion from majority
what is ethnocultural identity?
membership in the group
what is cultural identity
attitudes, values, and behaviours that distinguish it from another group
What is acculturation?
where you accept or reject own culture
many assimilate to majority cultures
What are 4 ways that immigrants and members of ethnocultural minorities relate to the majority culture?
- assimilation
- marginalization
- separation
- integration (bicultural)
What is “assimilation” in terms of social diversity?
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
What is “marginalization” in terms of social diversity?
reject both their own and majority culture
sees the most negative outcomes :( (alienation)
What is “separation” in terms of social diversity?
identify only with their own culture, reject majority
What is “integration” in terms of social diversity?
identify with both their own and majority culture
has most positive outcomes
Do adolescents or immigrant parents acculturate faster?
adolescents
Does adolescents autonomy, family closeness, and trying to learn a new culture clash?
YES
Can goals of your culture conflict with those of majority culture?
YES
What are the benefits to embracing ones own ethnocultural identity?
- benefits society
-gain cultural resilience - better identity formation
- increased mental health
- economic growth
- cultural awareness and acceptance
- link to national belonging
IS SES just family income?
NO!
also includes:
- living conditions
- access to resources
- knowldege about how institutions work
Can SES have an impact on development of adolescent?
YES
Do ethnocultural minorities face lower SES than majority in Canada?
Yes
more limited opportunities and rescources
racial injustice and biases
How does low SES impact them?
-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
What are 6 reasons why teens use media?
- diversion –> distraction
- cognition
- social utility –> connect with others
- withdrawl
- personal identity
- high sensation –> “dopamine hit”
What are 3 theories showing the effects of media exposure?
- Cultivation theory
- social cognitive theory
- schematic information processing theory
What is “cultivation theory”?
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
What is social cognitive theory (bandura)?
people learn from what other people do
What is schematic information processing theory?
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
What are some negative effects of media exposure?
- 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)
What are some positive effects of media exposure?
- 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
