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Cultural Dimensions
Enculturation
Acculturation
Competition and Conflict
SIT
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What is one cultural dimension?
Individualism AND collectivism (you need both to get this right!)
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What is enculturation?
The process of acquiring the cultural values and understanding cultural norms of one's home culture.
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What is acculturation?
The process of adapting and changing as a result to life in a secondary culture.
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What is one central claim of realistic group conflict theory?
Conflict arises when there is competition for scarce resources.
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Who proposed SIT?

Social Identity Theory (SIT) is a theory proposed by Tajfel and Turner in the year 1979.

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What is a cultural dimension?
A description of cultural values.
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What are two ways enculturation occurs? (i.e. what are two ways culture is transmitted?)
Parenting, Peers, Media, School
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Which acculturation strategy has the best mental health outcomes for immigrants?
Integration
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What was the name of the experiment that tested the RCT?
The Robber's Cave Experiment
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SIT was an elaboration of which theory?

Sherif’s Realistic Conflict Theory (RCT)

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Which researcher used IBM employees from around the world to describe six cultural dimensions?
Hofstede (Geert)
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In Barry et al.'s study, which types of cultures valued independence and initiative?
Low food accumulating (subsistence economies), like those relying on hunting and fishing
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What are two factors than can influence acculturative stress? (According to Torres et al.'s study)
Discrimination and the acculturation strategy used
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What were four characteristics of the participants in the Robber's Cave experiment?
white, middle class, protestant, male, 11-12 years old, parents still married, American.
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What is the main hypothesis of SIT?

SIT, posits that intergroup conflict can exist even when there is no direct competition for resources

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Where does a sense of identity come from in a collectivist culture and an individualistic culture? (Two answers)
Collectivist - belonging to a group Individualistic - individuality (including personal achievements)
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Why would a high food accumulating culture be more likely to conform?
Because (according to Barry's study) they're raised with values related to obedience and responsibility, thus they're more likely to follow cultural and social norms.
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What are four acculturation strategies?
Assimilation, Integration, Separation, Marginalization
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What are three examples of conflict that occurred between the boys?
Raiding of cabins, burning of flags, booing each other during sports, verbal and physical fighting.
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What is a minimal group paradigm?

The minimal group paradigm in SIT is a research methodology that proposes that the minimal condition for group biases (like favouritism towards your own group and prejudice towards other groups) is simply being a member of a group.

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What are three countries that had low levels of conformity in Bond and Smith's meta-analysis?
UK, France, United States (& Germany, Portugal)
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What's one piece of evidence that suggests low food accumulating cultures conform less than high food accumulating cultures?
Berry's study that showed Inuit's had lower levels of conformity than the Temne people in Africa.
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What evidence from Torres study suggests that integration can reduce the effects of discrimination?
There was a correlation between "higher Anglo behavioural orientation" (e.g. were fluent in English) and reduced levels of acculturative stress as a result of discrimination.
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What were two resources and two competitions that the researchers included in the competition phase of the experiment?
Resources: medals, trophies and pocket knives Competitions: tug-of-war, baseball
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What are the four interrelated concepts of SIT?

  • social categorization
  • social identity
  • social comparison
  • positive distinctiveness