Chapter 3

Question 1

Social science definition of intercultural communication

Answer 1

view culture as a set of learned, group-related perceptions, learned and shared patterns of perception, culture influences communication

Question 2

Interpretive definition of intercultural communication

Answer 2

learned and shared, contextual symbolic meanings, involves emotion

* Culture influences communication.

*Communication reinforces culture

Question 3

Critical definitaion of intercultural communication

Answer 3

* Heterogeneous, dynamic

* site of contested meanings

* communication reshapes culture

Question 4

Orientation to time

Answer 4

*U.S. emphasize the future

* Spain and Greece emphasize the present

* Many European and Asian societies emphasize the past

Question 5

Power distance

Answer 5

a cultural variability dimension that concerns the extent to which people accept an unequal distribution of power

refers to the extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept the unequal distribution of power

Question 6

masculine/feminine value

Answer 6

a cultural variability dimension that concerns the degree of being feminine– valuing fluid gender roles, quality of life, service, relationships, and interdependence– and the degree of being masculine– emphasizing distinctive gender roles, ambition, materialism, and independence

Question 7

uncertainty avoidance

Answer 7

a cultural variability dimension that concerns the extent to which uncertainty, ambiguity, and deviant ideas and behaviors are avoided

concerns the degree to which people who feel threatened by ambiguaous situations respond by avoiding them or trying to establish more structure to compensate for the uncertainty

Question 8

communication rituals/ “scripts”

Answer 8

a set form of systematic interactions that take place of a regular basis