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Chapter 3

Culture and the Culture-Learning Process. Chapter 3. Focus Questions. 1. What has shaped your own personal culture? 2. How does experience affect and influence your ideas of culture? 3. What other things affect your concept of culture?. Social Groups.

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Chapter 3

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  1. Culture and the Culture-Learning Process Chapter 3

  2. Focus Questions 1. What has shaped your own personal culture? 2. How does experience affect and influence your ideas of culture? 3. What other things affect your concept of culture?

  3. Social Groups • Subculture-unified by ideas and practices • Microculture- greater link with parent culture • Minority Group- subordinate position in society • Ethnic Group- share common heritage (Who am I?) • People of Color- non-white minority groups

  4. Aspects of Culture • Constructed by humans • Shared • Objective and Subjective • Nurtured

  5. Objective vs. Subjective • Objective-visible, and tangible~10% • Behavior • Language • Rituals • Laws • Food • clothes • Subjective- invisible and less tangible~90% • Norms • Values • Attitudes • Beliefs • Basic assumptions

  6. Applying the Concept of Culture Culture-specific Cultural-general Effect of culture on the individual More inclusive Cross-cultural psychology Universal • Programs that use a single characteristic to identify a cultural group (race) • Focus is on differences between groups but not within groups • Promotes stereotypes

  7. Culture-Learning Process • Language • Ability/Disability • Race • Ethnicity/Nationality • Social Class • Sex/Gender • Health • Age • Geographic Region • Sexuality • Religion • Social Status

  8. Socializing Agents • Family • School • Church • Community • Neighborhood • Peers • Media • Sports • Arts • Work • Technology

  9. Process of Socialization • Learning the norms that are expected from a particular group of people • Primary • Secondary • Adult

  10. Effects of Socialization • Ethnocentrism- my way is the best way • Perception- what you directly experience • Categorization- grouping according to stimuli • Stereotypes- categories of people • Generalizations- patterns of behavior and characteristics of a majority group of people

  11. Group Assignment - p. 98-100 • Read the Critical Incident assigned to your group • Discuss and answer the questions that follow • Prepare to present to the class

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