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Solutions Manual For Diversity Consciousness Opening Our Minds to People, Cultures, and Opportunities 4th Edition by Richard D. Bucher 9780321919069 Chapter 1-9 Complete Guide.
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Diversity Consciousness Opening Our Minds to People Culturesand Opportunities 4th Edition By Richard D. Bucher
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
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.
social class - ANSWER: category of people who share similar amounts of wealth,
power, and prestige.
ageism - ANSWER: ideology that asserts one age category is superior to another
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