Culture Flashcards
(33 cards)
What is enculturation?
A child picking up the culture into which they are born.
What is acculturation?
A person who moves from one country to another may gradually pick up the culture of her new home.
Emics are
factors specific to a particular culture
Etics are
factors shared between cultures
In what kind of culture can individuals pursue many different goals and at least some of them are relatively simple to attain?
easy culture
In what kind of culture are only a few goals viewed as valuable and few ways are available to achieve them?
tough culture
Which culture allows little deviation from proper behaviour?
tight cultures
Which cultures allow fairly large deviations from cultural norms?
loose cultures
Satisfaction with life is based on the harmony of one’s relationships with others, this an example of?
A collectivist country
Self esteem is more important, less attention to differences in status, this is an example of?
A individualist country
vertical societies:
assume that individual people are importantly different from each other.
horizontal societies:
tend to view all persons as essentially equal
What three factors of big five are universal?
conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness.
What is deconstructionism?
The philosophy of deconstructionism holds that reality has no meaning apart from what humans invent, or “construct”.
What is ecology?
The physical layout and resources of the land where the culture originated, together with the distinctive tasks and challenges this culture has faced.
What is ethnocentrism?
judging another culture from the point of view of your own
Dignity cultures emphasise?
the importance of the individual
Honor cultures emphasise?
self-protection and rituals of respect
Face cultures emphasise?
harmony and the maintenance of stable hierarchies.
What values are said to be universal and can be organised in two dimensions?
openness to change versus conservatism, and transcendence versus self-enhancement.
What is out-group homogeneity bias?
exaggerated views of the degree to which people in another culture are “all the same”. (individuals differ within as well as between cultures).
What is the universal human condition noted by Sartre?
Everybody everywhere must exist, work, relate to other people, and ultimately die.
What is cross cultural psychology?
A field of research psychology that compares different cultures psychology.
What is cross cultural specificity?
Looking for variation between cultures and within cultures.
