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Chapter 16

Chapter 16. Social Identity, Personality, and Gender. Chapter Outline. What is enculturation? How does enculturation influence personality? Are different personalities characteristic of different cultures?. The Self and the Behavioral Environment.

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Chapter 16

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  1. Chapter 16 Social Identity, Personality, and Gender

  2. Chapter Outline • What is enculturation? • How does enculturation influence personality? • Are different personalities characteristic of different cultures?

  3. The Self and the Behavioral Environment • Culture is created and learned rather than biologically inherited. • All societies must ensure that culture is transmitted from one generation to the next. • Enculturation begins soon after birth.

  4. Self Awareness • The ability to: • Identify oneself as an object. • React to oneself. • Appraise or evaluate oneself. • Attaching positive value to the self ensures individuals act to their own advantage.

  5. Requirements for Self-awareness • Object orientation - aware of the world of objects other than self. • Spatial orientation - the ability to get from one object, or place, to another. 0

  6. Requirements for Self-awareness • Temporal orientation - able to connect past actions with those in the present and future. • Normative orientation - understanding of cultural values, ideals, and standards.

  7. Personality • Refers to the distinctive ways a person thinks, feels, and behaves. • Most anthropologists believe adult personality is shaped by early childhood experiences. • The economy helps structure the way children are raised and this influences their adult personalities.

  8. Two Patterns of Child Rearing • Dependence training - promotes compliance in and favors keeping individuals within the group. • Independence training - emphasizes individual independence, self-reliance, and personal achievement.

  9. National Character Studies • Focused on the modal characteristics of modern countries. • Many anthropologists believe national character theories are based on unscientific and overgeneralized data.

  10. Unmarried Couples Cohabiting in the U.S.

  11. Ethnic Psychoses And Other Culture-bound Syndromes

  12. Ethnic Psychoses And Other Culture-bound Syndromes

  13. Ethnic Psychoses And Other Culture-bound Syndromes

  14. Ethnic Psychoses And Other Culture-bound Syndromes

  15. Normal Behavior • What defines normal behavior in any culture is determined by the culture itself. • What may be acceptable in one culture may not be in another.

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