FDT4 Task 3 GRAPHIC ORGANIZER Culture and Multicultural Education Based on the dictionary culture can be defined as the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. (Dictionary.com, n.d.). However, the true meaning of culture would be described differently depending on who you happen to ask. For example, if you ask a 20th century anthropologist to define culture, he may describe it as the human ability to categorize and symbolize experiences using signs and symbols, and to act creatively. Or he may describe it as the defined ways that people living in other parts of the world arrange and represent their experiences, and act imaginatively.
Individual Programmatic Assessment: Personality Development Paper Tony Lopez PSYCH 645 August 3, 2015 Individual Programmatic Assessment: Personality Development Paper The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader of Individual personality development in terms of nature v. nurture and examines the effect on twins and on the influences that trait theory and biology, such as temperament have on personality development. Cultural factors have an effect on personality expression in terms of gender roles and group cultures such as collectivist and individualist cultures. Three personality models: 1. Biological-model 2. Five factor trait theory, and 3.
The Comparison of the Gestalt of Culture in Primitive Societies “A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought and action” (Benedict 1989:46). In the book, Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict, the relationship of culture and personality are closely looked at in an attempt to differentiate between individual traits of a culture. Through Benedicts vigilant analysis of the gestalt of culture in the Zuni, Apache, Dobu and Kwakiutl cultures, she emphasizes cultural differences by evaluating them in relation to each other and their beliefs – ideas, standards, motives, emotions and values. Benedict (1989) states at the end of chapter 1, "The careful study of primitive societies is important today rather, as we have said, because they provide case material for the study of cultural forms and processes. They help us to differentiate between those responses that are specific to local cultural types and those that are general to mankind.
The biosocial theory. The term ‘culture’ encompasses the knowledge, beliefs and values shared by a society that are passed down the generations through imitation and communication. By looking at research through a variation of different cultures we can distinguish between universal features, which suggest an innate basis for gender therefore supporting the nurture side of the argument, and culturally specific features, which suggest gender is learned and so support the nurture side of the argument. A famous piece of cross cultural research on gender was the Six Cultures Study by Whiting and Whiting (1975) studied child rearing processes in North America, the Philippines, India, Mexico, Kenya and Japan. Researchers integrated themselves into the societies and conducted systematic 5 minute observations of the children’s daily lives.
Cross-Cultural Psychology as a Scholarly Discipline On the Flowering of Culture in Behavioral Research Marshall H. Segall Walter J. Lonner John W. Berry Syracuse University Western Washington University Queens University A history ofshows it to be an increasingly important part of modern psychology. Despite widespread agreement that culture is an indispensable component in the understanding of human behavior, there are noteworthy conceptual differences regarding the ways in which culture and behavior interrelate. Perspectives include absolutism and relativism, each with methodological consequences for such contemporary research concerns as values (including individualism-collectivism), gender differences, cognition, aggression, intergroup relations, and psychological acculturation. Societal concerns relating to these topics are briefly described. When all of psychology finally takes into account the effects of culture on human behavior (and vice versa), terms like cross-cultural and cultural psychology will become unnecessary.
The definition of Cultural Anthropology (Noun) as listed in the Merriam-Webster encyclopedia is …anthropology that deals with human culture especially with respect to social structure, language, law, politics, religion, magic, art, and technology. After reviewing the differences between the four sub-disciplines of anthropology, cultural anthropology is the field that seems most compelling to me. Cultural anthropologist study social patterns and practices across different cultures. The profession is interested in how people live in particular places and how they organize, govern, and create meaning. The cultural anthropologist takes a look at the similarities and differences within and among societies and focuses its attention to race, sexuality, class, gender, and nationality.
“Ethnicity is a concept referring to a shared culture and way of life, especially as reflected in language, folkways, religious and other institutional forms, material culture such as clothing and food, and cultural products such as music, literature and art” (Johnson, 2000). This is a direct reference from the Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology, neatly summing up ethnicity in terms of this essay. The essay will further explain the key concepts of ethnicity and race, and go onto explain various sociological reasons as to why there are health inequalities. To understand why an explanation of health inequalities between different ethnic groups is needed, first, an understanding of the statistics themselves need to be understood. Using data from the 2001 census, it can be seen that both Pakistani and Bangladeshi people, of both sexes, have the worst reported health, in terms of having ‘not good’ health (ONS, 2004.
In writing this essay I will examine the efforts made by governments to integrate people of ethnic minorities into Western society by means of government policy and government bodies set up to aid this integration. I will draw material from a variety of sources to get an all-rounded view of the reality of multiculturalism, or lack thereof. I will look at the problems or obstacles that hinder the representation of minorities in public bodies and if it is indeed a true reflection and representation of the communities themselves. I shall discuss the suggestion that the government’s efforts to create a multi-cultural society contributes to the public’s perception of ethnic minorities as being different, creating an ‘us’ and a ‘them’ mentality, which may reinforce racist tendencies and produce racial divisions within the society. I will of course be including the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron’s assertion that multiculturalism has failed and the controversy regarding this statement that ensued, as well as Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy’s statements to the same affect.
Social Psychology Definition Paper 1 Social Psychology Definition Paper September 11, 2012 Social Psychology Definition Paper 2 Social interaction plays a major role in defining social psychology because social psychology includes areas that include: psychology, evolutionary theories, and physiology. These areas according to Harold, (2000) are components of uncultivated areas of the social sciences. The principles of natural selection and adaptation can explain the biological theories that explain human hair color to choices for reproducing. At the same time sociology explains the choices of social structuring and how humans organize socially. However, social psychology has the job of explaining what people think about, how the thought affect people, and how the thoughts will interact with each other on the biological, psychological, and social levels (Myers, 2008).
What is multicultural literature? Multicultural literature is literature, which gives readers information about a different culture they may not know anything about. In this paper, we will see many different types of multicultural literature and learn about the authors behind the literature. Multicultural Definitions According to Webster’s Third Dictionary the definition of multicultural is; related to, or designed for several or many cultures. According to Dictionary.com, the definition of multicultural is, pertaining to, or representing serial different cultures or cultural