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Determinants of Psychosocial Disorders in Cultural Minority Children

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What is culture? According to Miller (1993), culture is a shared way of looking at the world, a coherent framework of meaning in which individuals make their lives. It is a “social fact,” a collective or group property that individuals experience as both external and constraining. Culture marginalizes some ways of acting and legitimizes others; culture is not simply “our” way of experiencing the world, it is also the “right way.” It is a moral order, inculcating a moral commitment to “our way” in its members. The socialization process ensures that collective standards of conduct are internalized by members, that is, that society’s ways become “my” way (Miller, 1993).

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Schwean, V.L., Mykota, D., Robert, L., Saklofske, D.H. (1999). Determinants of Psychosocial Disorders in Cultural Minority Children. In: Schwean, V.L., Saklofske, D.H. (eds) Handbook of Psychosocial Characteristics of Exceptional Children. Springer Series on Human Exceptionality. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5375-2_7

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