Culture Identity Development

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Culture Identity Development

• Chapter 7

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Cultural Identity Development

• Development models have been effective in
  demonstrating that individuals have a distinct
  cultural heritage and will move through different
  stages when forming a racial/cultural identity.

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Cultural Identity Development

• African American Identity
• White Identity
• Asian American Identity
• Hispanic/Latino Americans
• GLBT Identity
• American Indian Identity
• Biracial/Multiracial Identity
• Racial and Cultural

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Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model (R/CID)

• Initially named Minority Identity Development
  Model (MID), the R/CID model is an attempt to
  identify common features that cut across the
  population-specific proposals, which defines five
  stages of development conformity, dissonance,
  resistance and immersion, introspection, and
  integrative awareness.

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R/CID Stages

• 1. Conformity Stage. People at the conformity
  stage possess the following characteristics
• (a) self-depreciating attitudes and beliefs,
• (b) group-depreciating attitudes and beliefs
  toward members of the same minority group,
• (c) discrimination toward members of different
  minorities, and
• (d) group-appreciating attitudes and beliefs
  toward members of the dominant group.

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R/CID Stages

• 2. Dissonance Stage. No matter how much an
  individual attempts to deny his or her own
  racial/cultural heritage, he or she will
  encounter information or experiences that are
  inconsistent with beliefs, attitudes, and values
  held by the dominant culture.

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R/CID Stages

• 3. Resistance and Immersion Stage. In the
  resistance and immersion stage the culturally
  different individual tends to completely endorse
  minority-held views and to reject the dominant
  values of society and culture.

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R/CID Stages

• 4. Introspection Stage. Individuals in this
  stage begin to discover that the level of
  intensity of feelings is psychologically draining
  and does not permit them to devote crucial
  energies to understanding themselves or to their
  own racial/cultural group.

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R/CID Stages

• 5. Integrative Awareness Stage. Minority persons
  in this stage have developed an inner sense of
  security and now own and appreciate unique
  aspects of their culture as well as those of the
  mainstream culture.