Chapter 11-Social psychology and immigration

Question 1

Acculturation

Answer 1

Adapting to a different culture

Question 2

Ramirez model

Answer 2

A one-dimensional model of acculturation.

• Immigrants gave up their own culture to adapt to the new one
• Applicable when host societies have a homogeneous culture

Question 3

Melting pot

Answer 3

A one-dimensional model of acculturation.
-immigrants were free in a large degree to choose their own acculturation in private values but had pressure to blend into the mainstream culture.

Question 4

Integration

Answer 4

Own culture is valuable, and host society is desireable

Question 5

Separation

Answer 5

Own culture is valuable, and host society is not desirable

Question 6

Assimilation

Answer 6

Own culture is not valuable,but host society is

Question 7

Marginalization

Answer 7

None is important (own culture, nor host society)

Question 8

Cosmopolitism

Answer 8

Immigrants who are more individualistic, selectively adopting elements from a number of cultures. (Hannas tatuering)

Question 9

How do immigrants generally prefer to live in a host society?

Answer 9

integrated

Question 10

Contact hypothesis

Answer 10

Negative attitudes held by one group about another are caused by lack of knowledge about that group.

Question 11

Similarity-attraction hypothesis

Answer 11

Similarity leads to attraction.

Question 12

Social identity theory

Answer 12

Group membership forms an important component of social identity.

Question 13

Instrumental model of group conflicts

Answer 13

Resource stress: Limited resources +
Individual difference variable: Competative place
=Intergroup antafonism

Question 14

Common ingroup identity model

Answer 14

When a person is a member of a group, he/she will generally be treated in the same way as the other members of the same group.

Question 15

Cultural identity

Answer 15

Pride and belonging to one’s cultural group

-Immigrants may have to give up a bit of their cultural heritage without giving up their cultural identity.

Question 16

Four interventions

Answer 16

1. Enhance contact between members of different groups
2. Reducing unnecessary social categorization
3. Acceptance of other’s identity
4. Training of competencies

Question 17

Transnationalism

Answer 17

Multiple ties and interactions linking people/institutions across nations
Facilitated by geographical proximity and telecommunication services.
E.g. immigrants who combine separation with transnational links may stay within ethnic enclaves such as Chinatown, Rinkeby.

Question 18

Two acculturation strategies/structures

Answer 18

1. Creolization
   - A variety of cultural groups co-exist and no clearly dominant group (music: white guy listening to African music), (food preferences-new york pizza)
2. Pluralism
   - Both cultural maintenance and ingroup contact (no creolization)
   - Relationships among different groups form a new nation (Canada)

Question 19

What is realistic conflict theory?

Answer 19

Competition between two groups for resources such as money or jobs.

Question 20

What is symbolic racism theory?

Answer 20

Focuses on the perceived values of groups (e.g. in the past, many white US citizens perceived to value black people as different from their own (less hard working etc.)

Question 21

What is the integrated threat theory?

Answer 21

Incorporates both the realistic conflict theory and the symbolic racism theory. (Believes that black people are going to steal the white people’s jobs)

Question 22

Three motivational explanations for why people protest

Answer 22

1. Relative deprivation theory: Group-based perception of unfairness (e.g. feminism)
2. Theory of planned behaviour: The group needs self-efficacy. (Is this going to be effective?)
3. Social identity theory: Group identification

Question 23

Approximately how many percents of students engage in protests?

Answer 23

3-5%