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PSY 455: Spring 2003

Term Project 

A. Possible Interview questions

B.  Five domains to cover from the interview

C. Sample Consent Form for Term Project

: it is a sample informed consent form from SFSU's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. You can use this format for your consent form. Before you start your interviews, please be sure to have the informed consent form ready.
 

 


A.   Possible interview questions generated by class
 

1.      How do you identify with your culture?

2.      What challenges and/or conflicts have you faced within your culture?

3.      What characteristic best describes your culture?

4.      Explain your social caste/hierarchy; how do you view it, how do others, what do you think?

5.      What types of traditions/values have you carried on with you from homeland?

6.      How do you /others define your culture, where do you fit in that definition?

7.      Would you consider your culture to be individualistic or collectivistic?

8.      How do you define your culture?

9.      What are some important values in your culture?

10.  What is the value placed on each family member?

11.  What are certain family and cultural traditions?

12.  What do you value the most?

13.  What are your values?

14.  Compare/contrast your culture to American culture.

15.  How is your culture passed on? (who, how)

16.  How does your culture affect the way you live?

17.  Were you born into your culture or did you choose it?

18.  Do you want to preserve your culture by passing it onto your children?

19.  Have you ever been anywhere else; what were your reactions and others� reactions to you?

20.  How do you describe your culture?

21.  How long have you identified with that culture?

22.  General info combined with why they identify with culture.

23.  How do they deal with death?

24.  How do they feel culture has influenced their values/beliefs?

25.  How do they define their culture?

26.  Do you have spiritual beliefs?

27.  What determines success/failure in your culture, i.e. family, education, marriage, and material items?

28.  How were you raised? (discipline/parenting styles)

29.  Traditions, festival, holidays?

30.  Basic demographics, age, height, etc.

31.  What are your hobbies/interests?

32.  What are your cultural activities? (e.g. feasts, holidays, dress, clothes, primary food)

33.  Are there any particular traditions, rituals, practices that you consider integral to your culture?

34.  Is your native language or dialect essential to your cultural identity?

35.  How would you compare your values to the values of your parents/grandparents?

36.  How do you identify yourself in terms of your culture?

37.  How does your culture affect your family and personal values?

38.  How does your culture integrate with other cultures?

39.  What are gender roles within your culture?

40.  What is the first thing that comes to mind when asked about your culture?

41.  What, if any, divisions do you make within your culture?

42.  Do you feel one must be born into this culture, or can one adopt it? (how do you react t o those who do?)

B.   Five domains to cover when extracting major psychological themes from the interview.

  1. Individualism v. collectivism or Group functioning (how culture deals with ingroups and outgroups)

  2. Power distance (how culture deals with status difference)

  3. Value system (what are their values?)

  4. Time orientation (how they think about punctuality)

  5. Contextualization (how culture foster differences)

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