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Chapter 15
Human Commonality
and Diversity
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Culture and Ethnicity
• Culture– the behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other
products of a particular group of people that are passed on from generation to generation
• Ethnicity– based on cultural heritage, nationality, race,
religion, and language
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Culture and Ethnicity
• Cross-culture studies– compare a culture with one or more other
cultures
• Ethnicity studies– the study of universal and distinctive behaviors
across ethnic groups
• Mainstream culture– a dominant set of values and expectations
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Culture and Ethnicity
• Individualism– gives priority to personal goals rather than to
group goals
• Collectivism– emphasizes values that serve the group by
subordinating personal goals to preserve group integrity, interdependence of the members,k and harmonious relationships
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Culture and Ethnicity
• Stereotyping– a generalization about a group’s characteristics
that does not consider any variation from one individual to another
• Prejudice– an unjustified, usually negative, attitude toward
an individual based on the individual’s membership in a group
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Culture and Ethnicity
• Discrimination– the enactment of prejudices to limit
opportunities to an out-group or extend privileges to an in-group
• Ethnocentrism– the tendency to favor one’s own group over
other groups
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Culture and Ethnicity
• Social identity theory– the theory that when individuals are assigned to
a group, they invariably think of the group as an in-group for them
• Racism– the belief that members of another race or
ethnic group are inferior
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Culture and Ethnicity
• Assimilation– the absorption of an ethnic minority group into
the dominant group, which often means the loss of some or all of the behavior and values of the ethnic minority group
• Pluralism– the coexistence of distinct ethnic and cultural
groups in the same society
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Culture and Ethnicity
• Improving Interethnic Relations – Superordinate goals– Intimate contact
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Gender
• Gender– the sociocultural dimension of being female or
male
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Developing GenderIdentity
• Biological influences– androgen
• the main class of male sex hormones
– Estrogen• the main class of female sex hormones
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Developing GenderIdentity
• Social influences– identification theory
• stems from Freud’s view that preschool children develop a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent
– social learning theory of gender• the idea that children’s gender development occurs
through observation and imitation of gender-related behavior
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Developing GenderIdentity
• Cognitive influences– cognitive developmental theory
• children’s gender typing occurs after the have developed a concept of gender
– gender schema theory• children’s attention and behavior are guided by an
internal motivation to conform to gender-based, sociocultural standards and stereotypes
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Gender Comparisons
• Physical/Biological
• Cognitive
• Socioemotional– rapport talk
• preferred by women
– report talk• preferred by men
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Gender Expectations andStereotypes
• Gender stereotypes – broad categories, exaggerated generalizations,
and/or false beliefs about females and males
• Sexism– prejudice and discrimination against an
individual because of her or his sex
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Gender Expectations andStereotypes
• Androgyny– the presence of desirable feminine and
masculine characteristics in the same individual
• Gender-role transcendence– when an individual’s competence is at issue, it
should be conceptualized on a performance basis
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Gender Expectations andStereotypes
• Women’s issues– feminist
• a person who believes that women and men should have the same rights
• Men’s issues– male role strain– males of color and while males
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Religion
• Religion– a belief system that individuals use to morally and
spiritually guide their behavior
• Intrinsic religious orientation– religious motives that lie within the person
• Extrinsic religious orientation– personal motives that lie outside the religion itself
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Developing ReligiousCommitment
• Stage 1: Intuitive-projective faith
• Stage 2: Mythical-lyrical faith
• Stage 3: Synthetic-conventional faith
• Stage 4: Individualistic-reflective faith
• Stage 5: Conjunctive faith
• Stage 6: Universalizing faith
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Varieties of ReligiousExperience
• Religious conversion– a change from having no religious beliefs to
accepting a religious system, or changing from one belief to another
• Grand paradox– people who attend church are more prejudiced
that nonchurchgoers