Culture and Diversity
Patterns of behavior and thinking that people living in social groups learn, develop, and share
Culture
Describe preferred ways of behaving or thinking
Cultural values
Categorized around racial, ethnic, religious or socially common practice patterns.
Cultural groups
Gender, race, class, sexual orientation, age
Hallmarks of diversity
Year New Mexico became a state
1912
Array of differences among individuals
Worldview
Cultural transmission from adults to children
Enculturation
Stereotyping
Protection from nightmares
Dreamcatcher
Minority
Includes physical element, infrastructure element, behavioral element, and cultural element
How a society/culture is organized.
Process of adapting to and integrating characteristics of dominant culture
Assimilation
Historically defined by physical attributes
State mammal
American Black Bear
Multiculturism
Values and beliefs
Accepting the majority group's culture as one's own
Acculturation
The oppression of groups of people based on socioeconomic class
Classism
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Sobadoras
Individuals with common characteristics: nationality and language
Ethnic groups
Influence individual decisions and actions; differ in every culture;passed from generation to generation.
Belief systems
Moving to another country and adopting the dominant religion
Enculturation
Discrimination based on age
Ageism
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