ASA 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Acculturation, Culture Shock, Interracial Marriage

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: ASA 3
• Professor: Zane Nolan

Document Summary

Patterns of behavior, attitudes, ideas, beliefs, and lifestyles shared by a certain group of people. Product of learning developed through social interactions reflecting how a certain social group adapts to its social environment. Gradually changing in interaction with social and other environmental conditions. Members tend to reinforce certain attitudes, behaviors and values that become identifiable features of the group that becomes consistent over time. A society develops a system or set of social institutions that characterize how a particular social group adapts to its environment. The process of change by which the minority group and its culture are gradually absorbed into the majority group. Gordon"s 7 states of assimilation that occurs with inter group contact. Acculturation: the learning of cultural values, behavioral norms, and prevailing attitudes of the dominant group. Acceptance and participation into social institutions (process of socialization) Identify with dominant group"s values or social identity changes. Absence of stereotype or no prejudice against minority group.