Part Two: Intercultural Identity and Identity Development
Learning Objectives
- Define culture.
- Define personal, social, and cultural identities.
- Summarize nondominant and dominant identity development.
- Explain why difference matters in the study of culture and identity.
- Define the social constructionist view of culture and identity.
- Trace the historical development and construction of the four cultural identities discussed.
- Discuss how each of the four cultural identities discussed affects and/or relates to communication.
- Understand the difference between race and ethnicity.
- Define a majority group (dominant group).
- Define a minority group (subordinate group).
- Explain the difference between stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, and racism.
- Identify different types of discrimination.
- View racial tension through a sociological lens.
- Describe how major sociological perspectives view race and ethnicity.
- Identify examples of culture of prejudice.
- Explain different intergroup relations in terms of their relative levels of tolerance.
- Give historical and/or contemporary examples of each type of intergroup relation.
- Compare and contrast the different experiences of various ethnic groups in the United States.
- Apply theories of intergroup relations, race, and ethnicity to different subordinate groups.