Glossary C

Cultural assimilation is defined as the process whereby a minority cultural group takes on the characteristics of the dominant cultural group.

Cultural bias the situation that arises when one cultural or subcultural group is more familiar with test items than another group and therefore has an unfair advantage. Cultural bias, moreover, is a factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an advantage for test takers from certain cultural or ethnic backgrounds but that does not reflect true intelligence.

Englisch: Political Psychology
Cultural capital refers to the extent to which individuals have absorbed the dominant culture.

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Cultural Compatibility Hypothesis refer to the hypothesis that treatment is likely to be more effective when compatible with the cultural patterns of the child (patient) and family.

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Cultural Competence refers to the state of being capable of functioning in the context of cultural differences.

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Cultural defense refers to a defense to a criminal charge in which the defendant's culture is taken into account in judging his or her culpability.

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Deutsch: Kultureller Determinismus / Español: Determinismo Cultural / Português: Determinismo Cultural / Français: Déterminisme Culturel / Italiano: Determinismo Culturale /

Cultural determinism is the theoretical concept that culture shapes individual experience.

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Cultural deviance theories refer to theories positing that crime results from cultural values which permit, or even demand, behavior in violation of the law.

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