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Acculturation - Coggle Diagram
Acculturation
Acculturation strategies
Integration: individuals maintain their heritage culture but also try to interact with other groups, adopting mannerisms and norms from the new culture.
Assimilation: individuals adopt the norms of the new culture and don't maintain or follow the heritage culture identity
Separation: individuals focus on maintaining the norms of their heritage culture and don't make an effort to adopt the norms of the new culture
Marginalisation: individuals neither maintain their heritage culture or interact with other groups or adopt norms of the new culture
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Psychological effects
Three main areas of psychological change during the process of acculturation: ABCs - Berry et al (2011)
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Psychological changes: Stress and coping, culture learning, social identification
Berry et al. (2006) - Immigrant youth and acculturation, identity, and adaptation
Conducted a large international study of acculturation using immigrant and national samples focusing on psychological and sociocultural adaptation in relation to the four acculturation strategies
Aimed to understand how well immigrant youth are able to adapt to their new culture from a psychological and sociocultural point of view
Sampled participants from 26 cultural backgrounds in 13 countries with large number of immigrants, 7997 participants overall including 5366 immigrant groups and 2361 national youth.
Framework
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Individuals acculturate on a psychological level (through changes in cognition, behaviour, emotion, etc.)
Individuals adapt to the new culture, on psychological and sociocultural levels.
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Changing of a person's behaviour and characteristics as a result of contact between different cultures
Includes a wide variety of political, economic, and demographic and cultural changes but also focuses on psychological changes derived from adaptation to new cultural situation (surface culture + deep culture = cultural identity)
