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Cultural Diversity
Cultural Diversity, Columbus State Community college
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
05/21/2010

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Term
Natural Environment
Definition
The natural environment is defined as the home and other community settings in which children and families normally participate in activities
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Social Environment
Definition
The social environment of an individual is the culture that he or she was educated and/or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom the person interacts.
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Cultural Environment
Definition
the culture that he or she was educated and/or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom the person interacts.
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Human Ecology
Definition
Human ecology is an academic discipline that deals with the relationship between humans, human societies, and their natural, social and created environments.
Term
Foragers
Definition
90% of human beings have been foragers. characterized by: adrenalin surge, reliant on human energy, travel with natural materials that are light weight, group size 5-20, rarely more than 35-40 people. Share resources.
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Horticulturalist
Definition
Clear land, plant seeds, pull weeds, harvest. Use slash technique. No fertilizer/irrigation. Ground rest periods of 10-20 years, live in equatorial area for a village with hammocks, manage alliances, reliant on human energy. Raised many crops. Group owns land.
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Pastoralists
Definition
Animal folks. Move around a set agenda. During summer located in upper mountain area. Travel lower area during winter. Tend to eat products from animals (cheese, yogurt, dairy). Eat meat if animals die naturally, or if animal is older. Will exchange animal ag. crops in some cases. Sometimes women do not travel to the upper mountain. areas and raise crops in gardens.
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Agriculturalist
Definition
Use human and animal energy. Sedentary lifestyle. Use irrigation and fertilizer. Individual owns land, builds brick homes, specializes in one or two crops.
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Technology
Definition
Information skills and knowledge.
Term
Industrial revolution
Definition
3 Parts, Standardization, Interchangeability, Mass Production.
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Standardization
Definition
Production of uniform substitutable parts made possible by the improvement of measurement devices.
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Interchangeability
Definition
Ability to substitute one part for another, because measurement devices are precise.
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Mass Production
Definition
Use of standardized parts to construct great quantities of a product on an assembly line.
Term
Technology and problems
Definition
Pollution, green house affect, ect.
Term
Socialization
Definition
The process of learning your own culture to satisfy your universal needs through socially acceptable means.
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Socialization Factors
Definition
1. Interaction with family.
2. Peers and friends.
3. School.
4. Different expectations for different students.
5. Occupation (socio-economic status)
6. Mass media.
Values influence perception.
Term
Albert Bandura
Definition
"Learning occurs by observation."
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Imitation
Definition
1. Attentive
2. Create mental representation (memory)
3. Retrieve mental representation.
4. Motivation to apply it to our life.
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Insight
Definition
Seeing a concept from a new perspective.
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Physical
Definition
Growth and development.
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Piaget
Definition
Cognitive development birth-16 years old. Maturation/Nature, cognitive development of one's neurons. 100 billion neurons in our brains.
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Sensiormoter
Definition
Birth-2 years old. Object permanence, 1 1/2 years, the object exists even when not in sight. Builds mental representation. Object permanence.
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Preoperational
Definition
2-6/7 years old. Centralization- ability to focus on one out of 3 or more variables. Irreversibility, egocentric, pre logical thought.
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Concrete Operations
Definition
7-11 years old. Conservation- focus on all variables. reversibility. Literal logical thought.
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Formal Operations
Definition
12-16 years old. Abstract thinking and hypothetical reasoning.
Term
Cross Cultural data
Definition
There is evidence in non-western cultures for Piaget's stages if you use objects that are meaningful in their culture.
Term
Social
Definition
Learning to be a member of a group (society and culture).
Term
Status
Definition
Your position in society. Age, occupation, education.
Term
Role
Definition
The group of behaviors associated with each status.
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Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Definition
Self-Actualization: discovery. One's unique potential.
Esteem: Self esteem, esteem from others.
Love & Belonging: Friendship and Intimacy.
Security: Safety and Protection.
Physiological: food and water.
Term
Definition of "normal"
Definition
No universal definition because each culture has it's own idea of normal, which is constantly changing.
Term
Freud (conflict theory)
Definition
Purpose of living: To gratify our instincts by avoiding guilt.
State of the person: We are full of wants.
Major drives (basis of personality): Sex and Aggression.

Structure of personality:
ID: Pleasure/Fantasy
EGO: Reality and Balance.
SUPEREGO: Morality/conscience (5/6 years).
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Rogers (Fulfillment Theory)
Definition
Purpose of living: Experience fulfillment. Discover our unique potential.
State of person: We are full of needs.
Major drives (basis of personality): Unconditional positive regard, healthy self-concept.
Human nature? We're all warm, friendly, benevolent, self-actualizing individuals. Culture corrupts us.
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McClelland (Consistency Theory)
Definition
Purpose of living: Achieve consistency. Avoid cognitive dissonance.
Cognitive dissonance: Thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are going in opposite directions. Produces tension. We pretend one option doesn't exist.
State of person: The same as Goldie locks and the 3 bears. Either have too much consistency (papa bear), which causes bordom, or too little consistency, which causes confusion anxiety and depression.

Major drives (basis of personality): to get things just right. Enough consistency to gain control, but enough inconsistency to keep life exciting.
Human nature? No Opinion on human nature.
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Personality is shaped by?
Definition
Biology- Genes, hormones, neurotransmitters, dispositions.

Culture: Organized beliefs and rules. Family, education, religion, economy.
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Social institutions
Definition
Set of organized beliefs and rules. That establishes how a society will meet it's basic needs.
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Social values
Definition
Collective ideas about what is right and wrong in a particular culture. Achievement, success, progress, comfort, freedom.
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Subsistence patterns
Definition
Collective- cooperative group is more important.
Individualism- individual is more important than the group.
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Functions of family
Definition
1. Reproduction
2. Raising the children
3. Being a parent isn't suppose to drive you insane. Society should be supportive of parents.
Term
Remember that who is included in a family and size of family always relates to _____________________.
Definition
Economics.
Term
Serial Monogamy
Definition
Married and end the marriage, and then marry another spouse.
Term
Polygamy
Definition
form of marriage in which a person [has] more than one spouse
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Polygyny
Definition
One man and more than one woman.
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Polyandry
Definition
One woman and more than one man.
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Bilateral
Definition
Two sided. Keeps each name.
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Unilineal
Definition
One sided, motherson or fatherson, culture decides.
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Education
Definition
Narrow: The transmission of specific knowledge, skills and attitude within a particular institution.
Broad: Anytime you learned anything, anywhere.
Term
Modes of learning
Definition
How learning is conveyed. Lecture, visual aid, social, experiential.
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