PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Acculturation, Anomie, White Privilege
13 May 2018
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o At the individual level, the model that has been used the most is the model developed
by John Berry: he talks about 4 types of acculturation strategies of individuals:
▪ How positive are your views towards the host culture?
▪ How positive are your views towards your heritage culture?
▪ If individuals have + attitudes towards both groups: more integration, if +
toward host and - toads heitage → assiilatio. If + toads heitage ad -
toads host → sepaatio. If - toads oth → agializatio stategy.
▪ Integration: they hypothesized that it should be the most successful strategy
eause ou hae soial suppot fo 2 ouities. It’s adaptie to t to get
a smany resources as you can. There are multiple examples of this in movies.
Research finds that integration and assimilation tend to yield most positive
outcome.
▪ If ou look at aultuatio i ethelads s aada: thee’s a geate push fo
assimilation in the US or netherlands. In canada integration is fine.
▪ What’s ad hee is agializatio. It’s ot eall a aultuatio stateg:
most weakly defined. A feeling of normlessness (anomie): one group where you
ight fid geate agializatio ould e fo soe fist atios → thee ee
a generation whose children were taken away to go to shools → the heitage
ultue did’t suie as ell as it ould if the kids et to shool lose to hoe.
They experience considerable amount of discrimination, their language and
culture has been lost.
▪ Assimilation and separation are more intermediate strategies.
▪ Sepaatio → ejetig the host ultue ad the potetie featues it ould
offe. Caadia eaples: kithee o ateloo → people ho ted to hae
their own communities who are very traditional. Not all are traditional though.
Soe do’t use cars! There are some ultra conservative jews who tend to stay
within their own communities. Some immigrants also are examples: spend all of
their time speaking their own languages and have little interaction with
foreigners.
o Not all societies view the process of immigrant integration in the same way, canada has
been described as using the salad bowl model: each group maintains its characteristics
ad adds uiue flaous → hade to fid this i soe aeas tha othes: eg: hiese i
saskatchewan.
o In the US the odel is eltig odel → eah goup’s haateistis ae elted away
as they assimilate: plays out in many ways politically: in california to set up schools
where kids could study in spanish because of the huge latina population in california, it
did’t pass. It as just looked at uaeia. Ee though e ko it’s pshologiall
beneficial to learn more than one language.
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