CAS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Melting Pot, Infant, Ethnocentrism

• School: CSUF
• Department: Child and Adolescent Studies
• Course: CAS 201
• Professor: Tisha Rivera

Document Summary

Examine the values and goals the families have for their children: examine policy, recognize culture, support cultural competence, cultural pluralism. Cultural pluralism as a value: cultural pluralism, preserving diversity, unique cultural identities allowed, adding culture, bicultural person, melting pot, blend or melt into one, unique identities not encouraged, one culture replacing another. Cultural differences cultural differences: differences in goals and values, how we move, cultural rules, invisible most of the time, independence/interdependence. Independence view: families who focus on independence, encourage early self-help skills, encourage independence, pattern 1 individuals. Interdependence view interdependence view: families who focus on interdependence, prolonging babyhood, maintaining relationships, strong connections, pattern 2 individuals. Conflicting goals and values: pattern 1 program expectations, sleeping alone. Conflicting goals and values: own room, individuality emphasized, pattern 2 family expectations, sleep with baby from birth on, may not plan to provide own room, downplay individuality.