PSYC 3385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Fact, Acculturation, Enculturation
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Belief that all nationalities, ethnicities, and races would (cid:498)melt(cid:499) Foreigners would relinquish their culture of origin into one american culture: assimilation. Progressive, linear movement of adopting american culture and from a lower status group to a higher status group. Worked well with european americans: salad bowl theory. Psychological acculturation: describes individuals changes in knowledge, behaviors, values and cultural identity resulting from socialization to host cultural norms. Psychological enculturation: describes individuals processes or changes resulting from socialization to indigenous cultural norms. Ethnic and racial identity: complex construct, degree and nature of identification with ones ethnic group. Socioeconomic status (s. e. s: social position based on educational attainment, occupational prestige, income, wealth. Cultural mistrust: reactions of african-americans towards european-americans as a result of racism, discrimination, and prejudice. Ethnocentrism: negative judgments that members of one group tend to make about all others. Prejudice: set of affective reactions we have towards people as a function of their category.
