Cross cultural psych

Access to resources

The indicator of availability of material resources to a population

Activity

A process of the individuals interaction with the environment

Availability of resources

A measure indicating the presence or and access to resources essential for the individuals well being

Collectivism

Behavior and experience based on interdependence, collective responsibility, concerns for others, and care for collective traditions and groups values

Cross Cultural Psychology

The critical and comparative study of cultural effects on human psychology

Cultural psychology

The study that seeks to discover systematic relationships between culture and psychological variables

Culture

A set of attitudes, behaviors, and symbols shared by a group of people and usually communicated from one generation to the next

Ecological context

The natural setting in which human organisms and the environment interact

Ethnicity

A cultural heritage shared by a category of people who also share a common ancestral origin, langauage, and religion

Ethnocentrism

The tendency to view other ethnic or cultural groups according to the preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of ones own culture

Ideological (value based) knowledge

A stabke set of beliefs about the world, the nature of good and evil, right and wrong, and the purpose of human life-all based on a certain organizing principal or central idea

Indigenous groups

People who identify as part of a distinct group or are descended from those originating in the areas that were traditional lands, which existed perior to the esta

establishment of modern day borders

Individualism

Complex behavior and experience based of personal independence, self reliance, and concern for oneself a ones immediate family or primary group

Legal knowledge

A type of knowledge encapsulated in the law and detailed in offical rules and principles related to psychological functioning of individuals

Multi Culturalism

The view that encourages recognition of equality for all cultural groups and promotes the idea that the various cultural groups have the right to follow their own paths of development

Nation

A large group of peope who constitute a legitimate, i dependent state and share a common geographic orgin, history and frequently, language

Nontraditional Culture

The term used to describe cultures largely based on modern beliefs rules, symbols, and principles, relatively open to other cultures, absorbing and dynamic, science based and technology driven, and relatively tolerant to social innovations

Popular knowledge

Everyday assumptions ranging from commonly held beliefs to indiviual opinions and organizations is distributed unequally

Race

A large group of people distinguished by certain similar and genetically transmitted physical traits

Religious identity

A term indicating an individuals acceptance of knowledge, beliefs, and practices related to a particular faith

Power distance

The extent to which the meembers of society accept that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally

Scientific knowledge

A type of knowledge accumulated scientific researh on a wide range of psychological phenomena

Sociopolitical Context

The setting in which people participate in both global and local decisions, it includes various ideological issues, political structures, and presence and absence of political and social freedoms

Traditional culture

The term used to describe cultures base largely on beliefs, rules, symbols, ans principles established predominantly in the past, confined in local or regional boundaries, restricting and mostly intolerant to social innovations

Uncertainty avoidance

The degree to which the members of a society feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity

Uncertainty orientation

Common ways in which people handle uncertainty in their daily situations and lives in general