Index cards

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Index cards

• Name, Major, Year
• Email address
• Phone number
• Future career aspirations
• Other courses on child and adolescent development
  or on multicultural influence
  

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ChAD Scholarship

• http//www.sjsu.edu/chad/announcements/
• 500 scholarship for ChAD majors
• Requirements
• Full-time SJSU student
• Minimum GPA 3.3
• Submit brief essay (250-300 words) and transcript
  by 9/23/05

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eReserve

• Go to www.sjsj.edu
• Under Quick Links, select King Library
• From list on left, select Course Reserves
• Look Up Reserve Material by Professor/TA (Cotton
  Bronk)
  
• Look Up Reserve Material by Course (ChAd 162)

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Defining culture

• Culture is a central tendency, the average, the
  mainstream
  
• Doesnt describe all the people, all the time

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Uses of the term culture

• Descriptive
• Historical
• Normative
• Psychological
• Structural
• Genetic

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Aspects of life touched by culture

• Food and clothing
• Housing and technology
• Economy and transportation
• Community and government
• Religion and science
• Sex and life cycle

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Dynamic nature of culture

• Culture always changing because behavior
  reinforces and changes it (dynamic)
  
• Eg. Generation gap
• Tight vs loose adherence to culture

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Definition (Matsumoto, p. 24)

• Culture is a dynamic system of rules, explicit
• and implicit, established by groups in order to
• ensure their survival, involving attitudes,
  values,
  
• beliefs, norms, and behaviors, shared by group
• but harbored differently by each specific unit
• within the group, communicated across
• generations, relatively stable but with the
• potential to change across time.

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Factors that Influence Culture

• Environment
• Population
• Affluence
• Technology
• Climate

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Race versus culture

• Often used interchangeably with culture
• Important differences exist
• Culture is learned behavior race is not

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Ethnicity versus culture

• Ethnicity generally refers to groups
  characterized by a common nationality, geographic
  origin, culture, or language
  
• Culture makes ethnic group differences meaningful

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Ethnic Identity

• Does not require cultural involvement
• Individuals may have multiple ethnic identities
• Particular salient for groups of color

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Minority Status

• Minority status compared to the dominant
  (majority) culture
  
• Unequal relationships
• Limited power (social and economic)

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Nationality versus culture

• Nationality refers to persons country of origin
• People of many different ethnicities in US would
  all be identified as American

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Cultural variability

• Individualism - Collectivism
• Refers to the degree to which a culture
  encourages, fosters, and facilitates the needs of
  a group

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Ethnocentrism

• Viewing and interpreting the behavior of others
  through our own cultural filters
  
• Not necessarily negative or positive
• Sign of enculturation

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Stereotypes

• Generalized images that we have about groups of
  people, particularly about their underlying
  psychological characteristics or personality
  
• Can we positive or negative
• Held about own group and other groups
• Group activity

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The Eye of the Storm

• Watch for
• Effects of discrimination on learning outcomes
• Effects of environment on prejudice