H_D_FS 2300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anomie Belle, Ethnography, Fallacy
29 Apr 2016
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Diversity (primary and secondary: primary = age, race, ethnicity, gender, secondary = education, parental status, geographic location, marital status. Define culture: a constellation of beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, symbols, and attitudes, emerges in interactions across time between humans and environments c. Why we should study cultural processes: = the configuration or routine of cultural practices and values a. i. a. ii. a. iii. a. i. Challenge assumptions and theories that are based primarily on observations in middle class european and european american families/children. Define ethnocentrism, cultural relativism: ethnocentrism = evaluation of other cultures according to one"s own cultural standards and customs, cultural relativism = the understanding of cultural phenomena within the context in which they occur. Goals for cross-cultural psychology: testing or extending the generalizability of existing theories and findings, exploring other cultures to discover variations in behavior c, apply research findings across professional disciplines. Integrating findings to generate a more universal psychology. 3 approaches to studying diversity (deviant, equivalent, variant: cultural deviant.
