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Title: HCOMM Exam 1

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Total Flash Cards: 13

Created: 09/22/2009 10:50:13

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Social Identity
Definition
Cultural or ethnic membership, gender identity, sexual orientation identity, social class identity, age identity, disability identity or professional identity.
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Personal Identity
Definition
Includes any unique attributes that we associate with our individuated self in comparison with those of others. Learned traits.
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Personal Family System
Definition
Characteristics include: the emphasis on personal individualized meanings, negotiable roles between parent and child and the emphasis on interactive discussions within the family.
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Positional Family System
Definition
Emphasizes communal meanings, ascribed roles and statuses between parent and child and family rule conformity.
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Cultural Identity
Definition
Defined as the emotional significance that we attach to our sense of belonging of affiliation with the larger culture.
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Ethnic Identity
Definition
is "inherently a matter of ancestry, of beliefs about the origins of one's forebears". Can be based on national origin, race, religion or language.
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Valued Content
Definition
In context to cultural identity, valued content refers to the standards for expectations that people hold in their mindset in making evaluations.
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Identity Salience Issues
Definition
Refers to the strength of affiliation that we have with our larger culture. (Basically the degree of strength or weakness in one's cultural identity)
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Acculturation
Definition
The process is defined as the degree of identity change that occurs when individuals move from one familiar environment to an unfamiliar one.
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Enculturation
Definition
Refers to primary socialization process of strangers in their original home culture, where in they have internalized their primary cultural values.
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System-Level Factors
Definition
Factors that are elements in the host environment that influence newcomers adaptation to the new culture.
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Individual-Level Factors
Definition
Is an example of acculturation. Immigrants basically associating with identity dislocation problems.
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Interpersonal/Ethnic Media-Level Factors
Definition
Face to face social networking factors where ethnic groups form a community in an unfamiliar environment.