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Emic
Insider's perspective; attempting to show what a culture is like from the inside
Imposed Etic
A researcher makes general statements about human functioning across communities based on imposing a culturally inappropriate understanding. The ideas/procedures are not adapted for the community they're studying.
Derived Etic
Adapts ways of questioning, observing, and interpreting to fit the perspective of the participants
Holophrastic Speech
Language development at 18 months One word utterances like the word "milk"
Two-Word Phrases
"Want milk!" Children use their own form of grammar
Communities
Have common organization and practices. The members do things together, support each other, adapt together.
Demographic Transition Model
Shows how population changes over time Studies how birth rates + death rates affect the population of a country
Resignation vs. Maternal
Many cultures resign/give up on their kids, while other cultures celebrate being a mother (maternal). In Brazilian favelas, it is common for a mother to neglect a child she thinks is not likely to survive.
Age Grade Segregation
Isolates children from the older generation Adds to competition
Child Labor Laws
Child help in the home decreased because of _________ and the requirement for kids to go to school
Rights of Passage
Rituals that assists individuals in their transitionfrom one status in society to another
Stages of Rites of Passage (3)
1) Separation 2) Liminal Period 3) Re-aggregation
The separation stage
Physically separated from the familiar and symbolically separated by clothes and/or actions
The Liminal Period
"Standing in the doorway"; Re-learning initiates, stripping away old identities and introducing new ones.
Re-aggregation
Reintroduced in society in new status; social recognition of new status
The separation stage
Physically separated from the familiar and symbolically separated by clothes and/or actions
The Liminal Period
"Standing in the doorway"; Re-learning initiates, stripping away old identities and introducing new ones.
Re-aggregation
Reintroduced in society in new status; social recognition of new status
The separation stage
Physically separated from the familiar and symbolically separated by clothes and/or actions
The Liminal Period
"Standing in the doorway"; Re-learning initiates, stripping away old identities and introducing new ones.
Re-aggregation
Reintroduced in society in new status; social recognition of new status
Give an example of people going through the stages of "The Rights of Passage"
The Mbuti Pygimes' Nkumbe
Adolescence Family Dynamics
Can create role conflict; at home they are treated like an adult, at school they are treated like a child
Apache Stories
How gossiping works; make you think about yourself
"Injured Pig" Story
Neighborhood boys injure a pig; the adult who witnessed and testified against them was punished for being an adult and not intervening
Intelligence Tests
Brought together by the army; made to keep out immigrants.
H.H. Goddard
Created the word "moron"
Navajo Toilet
The navajo people find it disgusting that American people use the toilet in their house
Strange Situation
Reaction of a child when they're separated from caregivers
3 Types of Reactions in a Strange Situation Separation
1) Secure Attachment 2) Anxious Resistant 3) Anxious Avoidant
Secure Attachment
Child explores room and acts friendly before separation, show mild wariness during separation, and are comforted and do not show anger when reunited with caregiver
Anxious Resistance
Child shows distress when left and not easily soothed when reunited but seeks contact
Anxious Avoidant
Shows low distress when left and doesn't seek contact when caregiver returns
Teasing
Teaches children appropriate emotional responses to challenging situations; indirect means of everyday criticism
Taxonomics
To categorize things into groups; assumed common set of features. A sign of intelligence.
Functional Categories
Sign of a lack of schooling; when you categorize things according to tasks. For example: a potato and a carver; to carve potatoes.
Implicit Intelligence
What went into building it in the first place
Explicit Intelligence
How do you use it? How do you make it work? Directly taught
Coming of Age in Samoa
Teens in Samoa do not have the issues between mother and daughter that they seem to have here
Maturity
Girls are more nurturing, boys more aggressive
Maturity in Mexico
Eudcado - attaining a sense of moral and personalresponsibility and respect for diginity of others that serves as the foundationfor all other learning
Maturity in Zambia
Nzelu - wisdom, cleverness and responsibility tobe used in a socially productive way an never for selfish purposes
Maturity off the Ivory Coast
O Ti Kpa - performance of tasks for the familieswelfare
Maturity in the U.S.
Problem-solving and verbal ability; but laypeopleinclude social competence, the ability to admit mistakes, having a socialconscious and thinking before speaking and doing.
Curves (in schooling)
Forces competition; invented by Max Meyer ('08)
Voluntary Minority
People who freely come to a country in the hopes of opportunity and an increased living standard.
Involuntary Minority
Forced to come to America
Parental: Mexican vs. American
Describes the conflict that arises when a parent wants a child to do something dealing with the old heritage but the child doesnt want to because they are adjusting to american life.
One Child Policy
Describes China's government policy; introduced in the 1970s. Strict use of birth control and abortion.
Authoritarian Parenting Style
A parenting style tending to use punitive control methods and lacking emotional warmth.
Authoritative Parenting
Blends respect for a child's individuality with an effort to instill social values
Authoritative Parenting
Blends respect for a child's individuality with an effort to instill social values
Permissive Parenting Style
Parents submit to their children's desires; they make few demands and use little punishment
Schemata
Internalized representation of external world
Piaget's Schemata
Perceptual Invariant Thought (0 to 2 years) Pre-operational Intuitive Thought (2 to 7 years) Concrete Operational Thought (7 to 11 years) Formal Propositional Thought (11 years and older)
Perceptual Invariant Thought
"Sensori motor stage"; Internalizing representation of objects based ondirect sensory qualities and manipulative responses (push something off table, object to mouth)
Preoperational Intuitive Thought
Canmake intuitive judgments but can only focus on one thing at a time; "which glass can take more"
Concrete Operational Thought
Able of reverse thinking - able to back track to the start; a child can combine two ideas
Formal Operational
Capable of thinking in purely logicalpropositions. Dealing with second order symbol systems
Decentration
Ability to focus on more than one feature of a problem simultaneously; imagining the world from someone else's eyes
Egocentric
Selfish, centered on one's own needs
Reversible Thinking
The ability to mentally track back to the start
Complementary
Playing house with other people
Role
Playing house on your own
Games
Helps to motivate learning in children; use mock excitement to motivate learning and gain the ability to anticipate what's going to happen
Post-modernism
Everyone views their community differently so it makes having one consistent viewpoint difficult.
Rosie the Riveter
Female icon of the working woman
Sleeping Independently
USbelief that nighttime separation is essential to developing sense ofindependence and makes daytime separation easier; infants have their own rooms - only common int he US
Social Addresses
Categories, such as race, ethnicity andsocioeconomic class; useful in how people categorize themselves, but problematic to equate these with culture
Social Referencing
Mutual understanding occurs between people ininteraction, it cannot be attributed to one person or another; Adults elaborating on holophrastic speech helps babies to expand their speech
Ontogenetic Development
Occurs in the time frame of the individual lifespan providing the time frame for the following levels of development
Phylogenetic Development
Genes changing over millennia
Cultural-historical Development
The cultural legacy of symbolic and materialtechnologies (literacy, number systems, computers) changing over across decadesand centuries
Micro-genetic Development
The moment to moment learning of individuals inparticular contexts

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