CH ST 1B Lecture 9: Cultural Transformations

• School: UCSB
• Department: Chicano Studies
• Course: CH ST 1B
• Professor: H U R T A D O

Document Summary

3 short answers: 80% based on the glossary terms, 20% based on lecture slides and readings. Theoretical developments in the study of cultural transformations. Social engagement: multiple spheres of engagement. Behavior (b) is a function of the person (p) and his/her environment (e: b = f (p, e) An individual has multiple life spaces that composes their social existence. Two people"s experience of a situation can become one (or closer) when they converse together: mi familia. Jimmy and his wife connected over their feelings of invisibility and exclusion in their community. This combined space can be built up as the two people share more ideas and create a more complex life-space together. Our methods must allow for group differences in definition of the variables under study at the same time we examine similarities. How we study difference, whether it is cultural, social, sexual, economic, or racial has definite implications for what recommendations and solutions we propose to end oppression.