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Diversity Consciousness Chapter 4:
Developing Exam Study Guide.
It expands your horizons and empowers y ou - answer✔Knowledge is power. Knowledge can
give you confidence and instill pride in yourself and your culture.
It promotes personal growth and strengthens your social networks - answer✔By making
contacts and developing relationships with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, you
expand your social networks. Being able to draw on a variety of diversity skills will help you
expand your circle of friends and develop substantive relationships with new a different kinds of
people.
cultural encapsulation - answer✔a lack of contact with cultures outside of our own, promotes
insensitivity to cultural differences. prone to define reality in terms of our set of experiences and
assumptions
media literacy - answer✔skill set that allows us to access, evaluate, and create different forms
of media
socialization - answer✔lifelong process of social interaction that enables us to learn about
ourselves and others.
Diversity Consciousness: Six Areas of Development - answer✔1- examining ourselves and our
worlds
2- expanding our knowledge of others and their worlds
3-stepping outside of ourselves
4- gauging the level of the playing field
5- checking up on ourselves
6- following through
nature - answer✔refers to biological makeup
nurture - answer✔refers to those aspects of the environment that mold and shape us, such as
schools, families, and peer groups
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emphasis on individualism in US society makes it difficult to see social influences -
answer✔people in the US are raised to believe that they think and act on their own.
our cultural environment is so close to us that sometimes we do not see it - answer✔can lead to
enculturation. hard to step back and take a long hard look at our environment or imagine that
anyone could think any other way.
enculturation - answer✔immersion in a culture to the point where that way of life appears only
natural
some people rarely experience social marginality, meaning exclusion that results from being seen
as an 'oursider' - answer✔have a difficult time seeing beyond their own world.
Expanding our Knowledge of Others and Their Worlds - answer✔learning about others is
instrumental in laying the foundation for diversity consciousness
do not simply sample differences from a distance. - answer✔this promotes an 'us versus them'
attitue. Awareness and understanding change as we get closer to people and engage differences.
seek to understand how the histories, perspectives, and contributions of different cultures are
interconnected - answer✔'Negro history', focus on negro in history rather than on Negro history
try to decrease the social distance between you and those about whom you know little if nothing
- answer✔tend to separate ourselves from others who we think are not like us. particularly true
of our inner social circles.
social distance - answer✔concept that was coined by a scientist name Emory Bogardus. Refers
to the degree to which we are willing to interact and develop relationships with certain racial and
ethnic groups
focus on ordinary people and occurences - answer✔learning about a few remarkable people and
events from another culture is not sufficient.
Similarities - answer✔We are the weaker for these divisions and the stronger when we can
transcend them
Stepping Outside of Ourselves - answer✔We understand others or at least try to understand
others by stepping outside of ourselves; that is, we try to put ourselves in their shoes, so to speak
double consciousness - answer✔a person's awareness of his or her own perspective and the
perspective of others. makes it possible to shift your perspective back and forth continuously
Gauging the Level of the Playing Field - answer✔learning about diversity means coming to
grips with social inequality
Social inequality - answer✔refers to the unequal distribution of resources, such as wealth,
power, and prestige.
Diversity Consciousness Chapter 4:
Developing Exam Study Guide.
It expands your horizons and empowers y ou - answer✔Knowledge is power. Knowledge can
give you confidence and instill pride in yourself and your culture.
It promotes personal growth and strengthens your social networks - answer✔By making
contacts and developing relationships with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, you
expand your social networks. Being able to draw on a variety of diversity skills will help you
expand your circle of friends and develop substantive relationships with new a different kinds of
people.
cultural encapsulation - answer✔a lack of contact with cultures outside of our own, promotes
insensitivity to cultural differences. prone to define reality in terms of our set of experiences and
assumptions
media literacy - answer✔skill set that allows us to access, evaluate, and create different forms
of media
socialization - answer✔lifelong process of social interaction that enables us to learn about
ourselves and others.
Diversity Consciousness: Six Areas of Development - answer✔1- examining ourselves and our
worlds
2- expanding our knowledge of others and their worlds
3-stepping outside of ourselves
4- gauging the level of the playing field
5- checking up on ourselves
6- following through
nature - answer✔refers to biological makeup
nurture - answer✔refers to those aspects of the environment that mold and shape us, such as
schools, families, and peer groups
, ©THEBRIGHTSTARS 2024
emphasis on individualism in US society makes it difficult to see social influences -
answer✔people in the US are raised to believe that they think and act on their own.
our cultural environment is so close to us that sometimes we do not see it - answer✔can lead to
enculturation. hard to step back and take a long hard look at our environment or imagine that
anyone could think any other way.
enculturation - answer✔immersion in a culture to the point where that way of life appears only
natural
some people rarely experience social marginality, meaning exclusion that results from being seen
as an 'oursider' - answer✔have a difficult time seeing beyond their own world.
Expanding our Knowledge of Others and Their Worlds - answer✔learning about others is
instrumental in laying the foundation for diversity consciousness
do not simply sample differences from a distance. - answer✔this promotes an 'us versus them'
attitue. Awareness and understanding change as we get closer to people and engage differences.
seek to understand how the histories, perspectives, and contributions of different cultures are
interconnected - answer✔'Negro history', focus on negro in history rather than on Negro history
try to decrease the social distance between you and those about whom you know little if nothing
- answer✔tend to separate ourselves from others who we think are not like us. particularly true
of our inner social circles.
social distance - answer✔concept that was coined by a scientist name Emory Bogardus. Refers
to the degree to which we are willing to interact and develop relationships with certain racial and
ethnic groups
focus on ordinary people and occurences - answer✔learning about a few remarkable people and
events from another culture is not sufficient.
Similarities - answer✔We are the weaker for these divisions and the stronger when we can
transcend them
Stepping Outside of Ourselves - answer✔We understand others or at least try to understand
others by stepping outside of ourselves; that is, we try to put ourselves in their shoes, so to speak
double consciousness - answer✔a person's awareness of his or her own perspective and the
perspective of others. makes it possible to shift your perspective back and forth continuously
Gauging the Level of the Playing Field - answer✔learning about diversity means coming to
grips with social inequality
Social inequality - answer✔refers to the unequal distribution of resources, such as wealth,
power, and prestige.
