class 1

Question 1

What is a minority?

Answer 1

• Sociological versus statistical
• Power or dominance relationship
• Unequal access to power-not an number game**

Question 2

What does Ethnic Group mean?

Answer 2

• Meaning people or nation
• People who share unique social & cultural heritage
• Share a ‘peoplehood’ from the generation to next
• Can also be a religious group
• Race religion national origin or combination

Question 3

Behavioral processes unfold and change as the individual goes thru_____________ in the context of a variety of physical, and social/psychological cultural environments___________________________.

Answer 3

• infancy to aging

- physical, and social/psychological cultural environments

Question 4

the ecology of human development

• Bronfenbrenner’s model

Answer 4

• microsystem-closest to individual i.e. family, school
• mesosystem-combine two microsystems together (two circles overlapping-so oval)
• exosystem
• macrosystem-
• developmental niche: Super & harkness

Question 5

Family life styles

Answer 5

• Maintenance of ethnic identity and solidarity rests on the ability of the family to socialize its members into ethnic culture
• Manner in which families carry out this function is refer to as a family life styles

Question 6

Sweden Norway Denmark = ________________

Answer 6

post modern?

Question 7

African American families in Europe

Answer 7

with 76% on children growing up with one parent?

Question 8

“eyes” thru which we look (6)

Answer 8

• self image
• beliefs about human-kind/family
• religious beliefs
• socio-political participation
• nature of reality
• logical orientation and limits knowledge