cultural

• Linking social structure and interpersonal behavior


  How are cultural stereotypes/ideas passed on through generations
• Cultural contexts have a dynamic potential


  They can introduce change into the larger structural patterns that they enact
• Social situations


  • Ordering schemas and social structures
  • They specify relations among actors
  • They are socially shared rather than individual schemas
  • When acted upon, they give rise to an observable social structure among the actors involved, that is a patterned distribution of behaviors and resources
• Generative theories of interpersonal behavior


  1. Use a cultural "vocabulary" of shared meanings

  2. Use a "grammar" of rules for combining these meanings

  3. Actors can respond flexibly to the specific contingencies of a particular situation, even if some of those contingencies are unexpected
• Modular ordering schemas


  • Separates the meanings of things that always appear combined
  • Flexibility to recombine and apply to more contexts
• The continuing enactment of larger social structures


  Depends heavily on the cultural ordering schemas (gender, race, occupational stratification) that individuals use to organize local relational contexts and to enact structural features
• Women were slightly more likely than men to commit most acts of physical aggression


  Injuring a partner, and specific damaging acts, were more often inflicted by men against women, although there was still a substantial minority of male victims
• Social role theory


  Explanation for physical aggression between partners
• Patriarchal explanations


  Explanation for physical aggression between partners
• Immigrant youth


  • Degree of seeking involvement in larger society
  • Degree of maintaining heritage culture and identity
• Marginalization


  Acculturation mode for immigrants
• Assimilation


  Acculturation mode for immigrants
• Separation


  Acculturation mode for immigrants
• Integration


  Acculturation mode for immigrants
• Sociocultural adaptation


  How well immigrants deal with their intercultural situation
• Psychological adaptation


  How well immigrants deal with their intercultural situation
• The combined involvement with both the national and the ethnic cultures


  Is the most adaptive mode of acculturation and the most conducive to immigrants' well-being