Definitions
Where all the aspects of one's identity meet, our experience of our own complex identities is sometimes contradictory, conflictual, and paradoxical.
What is Social Location?
This perspective assumes that our descriptions of social categories (Asian, female, disabled, etc.) are naturally given.
What is an Essentialist Perspective?
Multicultural researchers generally agree that ________ do not exist in isolation, but influence one another.
What is Cultures?
Making a simple generalization about a group and claiming that all members of that group conform to this generalization.
What is Stereotyping?
The process of multicultural counseling by which addressing peoples' troubles as products of multiple forms of human interaction and engagement across time and space.
What is Constructionist Perspective?
Referring to the way in which the different identity formations converge in an individual person.
What is Convergence?
Counseling in which the counselor and the client are culturally different because of socialization acquired in distinct cultural, sub-cultural, race-ethic, environments.
What is Multicultural Counseling?
Shared lived experiences that bind people together around a body of cultural symbols, including the polyphonic concept of people borrowing from different cultures.
What is culture in Postmodern Perspective?
When dominant groups within a culture may seek to preserve selected cultural elements to preserve their own cultural power.
What is Selective Labeling?
The stance of ________ tempts people to judge the worthiness of other's experiences, including their experiences of discrimination and oppression.
What is Polarization?
Expressed each time a person speaks about an ordinary aspect of their lives.
What is Conceptual Schema?
The boundary beyond which a person is not considered a member of that group, as we define the difference between one identity and another, the more likely we find individuals who do not fit our definition, we refer to this as:
What is Border Identities?