dimensions and outcomes of intercultural contact
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-Acculturation and Contemporary Theories -Ward et al. (Lesson 3)TRANSCRIPT
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Dimensions and
Outcomes of Intercultural
Contact Acculturation &
Contemporary Theories
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Intercultural Contacts• Within-Society contacts and
Multiculturalism (migration & refugees)
• Between-Society contacts: when a person from one society travels to another country with a particular objective in mind (assist, work, study, play, exploit)
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Social contact between
culturally disparate individuals
is difficult• Similarity-attraction hypothesis
• Culture-distance hypothesis
• Social categorization process (in/out groups)
• Stereotyping
• Primary socialization process
• Cultural syndromes
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Dimensions of Intercultural Contact
•Time-span-Long term -Short or Medium term •Purpose-Make a life/study in
(Immigrants, overseas students, subcultures)
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Dimensions of Contact
•Type of Involvement
- Participate, Exploit, Contribute, Observe, Convert (Majority/minority, Immigrants, Traders, Experts, Tourists, Missionaries, Diplomats)
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Group Level Outcomes of Contact• Genocide of original inhabitants
-between societies (American Indians)
• Genocide of newcomers by outsiders
-within societies (Nazi Germany)
Refugee movements often result from attempted genocide, premigration
trauma
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Group Outcomes (cont.)
• Assimilation of out-groups by in-group
-within societies (migrants in melting-pot)
-between societies (‘Cocacolonisation’)‘swallowing-up’ of one culture by another—gradually adopt dominant culture’s norms/valuesGlobalization: diversity reduced, assimilation
policies may be inherently racist
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Group level outcomes
• Self-segregation of out-groups by in-group
-within societies (Tribal lands, the US South-west)
-between societies (East Germany during cold war)Majority may seek to exclude minority or minority groups demand separate states,
cultural enclaves, special schools, etc.
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Group Outcomes (cont.)
• Integration
-within societies (pluralistic society like Australia)
-between societies (United Nations, third cultures)
Results when different groups maintain their respective core cultural identities while merging
into a superordinate group in other respects
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Individual Outcomes
Ask yourself:
1) Is it considered to be of value to maintain one’s cultural identity and characteristics?
2) Is it considered to be of value to maintain relationships with the larger society?
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Answers:
• “Yes” to both questions: Individual is integrating (health and well-being)
• “No” to both questions: Individual is marginalized (adverse effects on well-being)
• “Yes” to issue 1, “No” to issue 2: Individual is in the separation category (unhappiness/distress)
• “No” to issue 1, “Yes” to issue 2: process of assimilating
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Outcomes of contact: dependent variables
• Behaviors
• Perceptions
• Feelings
• Beliefs
• Attitudes
• Self-references
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Independent and mediating variables
Determinants of outcomes
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Outcomes most studied:
• General satisfaction of sojourners w/new lives
• Changes in emotional adjustment over time (culture shock)
• Extent to which sojourners interact with and engage in host culture
• Adverse psychological consequences of failing to adjust
• Ability of sojourner to manage transition • Degree of competence in new setting
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Individual Outcomes• Berry’s Model: Integration,
Assimilation, Separation, Marginalization
• Ward’s Model: Passing, Chauvinistic, Marginal, Mediating
At the personal level, both models consider acculturation as signifying changes in the
person’s behavior, attitudes and cognitions.
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• Passing: if second culture has higher status, one may reject his/her individual culture and adopt the new one (assimilation)
• Chauvinist: an individual may reject second culture influences as alien, retreat into culture of origin and/or become militant nationalist (separation)
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Individual Outcomes
• Marginal: individuals vacillate between two cultures, feeling at home in neither
• Mediating: individuals who are able to synthesize various cultural identities and acquire bicultural or multicultural identities (Integration)
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Historical Perspectives
• Linked migration and mental health
• Clinically oriented and strongly related to medical models of sojourner adjustment
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Contemporary Perspectives
• Culture-Learning Approach: cross-cultural exposure is a dynamic learning experience both for sojourn and hostproblems arise because of difficulties in everyday social encounters; adaption is
measured by skills acquisition; focuses on preparation, orientation and acquisition of
culturally relevant skills, not therapy-
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Culture-specific variables in the adaptation process
General knowledge about a new culture; Length of residence in the host culture; Language or communication competence; Quantity and Quality of contact with host nationals; Friendship networks; Previous experience abroad; Cultural Distance & Cultural Identity; Temporary vs. permanent residency; Acculturation modes and Training
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Stress & Coping Model
• Conceptualizes cross-cultural transition as a series of stress-provoking life changes that require coping responses
• Framework incorporates both characteristics of the individual and the situation (that may help or hurt adjustment)
• Variables studies include personality factors, cognitive appraisals of change, social support, homesickness, premigration stressors etc.
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Social Identification Theories
• Highlights aspects of ethnic or cultural identity
• Linked to studies that define and measure acculturation
• Influenced by social psychology and significance of intergroup perceptions/relations
• Cognitive in flavor (attitudes, expectations, values, attributions)
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Contemporary Approaches
• Theories are more comprehensive than earlier approaches
• Consider Affective, Behavior and Cognitive components of an acculturation process that occurs over time (ABCs)
• Highlight shift from negative, reactive features of culture contact towards adaptive and active coping
• “Shock” now seen as skills deficits
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Culture Shock
The term we use to refer to the meeting of individuals and groups who differ in their cultural, ethnic, or linguistic backgrounds.
Culture Shock is studied within the broader framework of acculturation
theory
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Acculturation Process• Changes that occur as a result of
sustained first-hand contact between individuals of differing cultural origins
• May also be studied within-societies (ethnic groups in plural societies)
• Conceptualizes cross-cultural transition as a significant life event in which difficulties are described in terms of debilitating stress or social skills deficits
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Adaptation
• Debate about appropriate criteria for the assessment of cross-cultural adaptation (what is a successful transition?)
• Psychological adaptation is based on affective responses, refers to feelings of well-being/satisfaction during transition.
• Sociocultural adaptation is situated within behavioral domain, ability to ‘fit in.’