Chapter 3 Flashcards
Informal institutions
Institution represented by cultures, ethics, and norms
Ethnocentrism
A self-centered mentality by a group of people who perceive their own culture, ethics, and norms as natural, rational, and morally right
Culture
The collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another
(includes language, religion, social structure, and education)
Lingua franca
A global business language
Social structure
The way a society broadly organizes its members
Social stratification
The hierarchical arrangement of individuals into social categories (strata) such as classes, castes, and divisions within a society
Social mobility
The degree to which members from a lower social category can rise to a higher status
Context
The underlying background upon which social interaction takes place
Low-context culture
A culture in which communication is usually taken at face value without much reliance on unspoken context
High-context culture
A culture in which communication relies a lot on the underlying unspoken context, which is as important as the words used
Cluster
Countries that share similar cultures
Civilization
The highest cultural grouping of people and the broadest level of cultural identity people have
Power distance
The extent to which less powerful members within a culture expect and accept that power is distributed unequally
Individualism
The idea that an individual’s identity is fundamentally their own
Collectivism
The idea that an individual’s identity is fundamentally tied to the identity of their collective group
