Communication: KEY TERMS Ch 2

Question 1

culture

Answer 1

the totality of learned shared symbols, language, values, and norms that distinguish one group of people from another

Question 2

societies

Answer 2

groups of people who share common symbols, language, values and norms

Question 3

in-groups

Answer 3

groups of people with which a person identifies

Question 4

out-groups

Answer 4

groups of people with which a person dose not identify

Question 5

ethnicity

Answer 5

people’s perceptions of ancestry (förfäder) or heritage (arv)

Question 6

nationality

Answer 6

one’s status as a citizen of a particular country

Question 7

enculturation

Answer 7

the process of acquiring (åtkomst) a culture

Question 8

co-cultures

Answer 8

groups of people who share values, customs, and norms related to mutual interests or characteristics beside their national citizenship

Question 9

individualistic culture

Answer 9

a culture in which people believe that their primary responsibility is to themselves

Question 10

collectivistic culture

Answer 10

a culture in which people believe that their primary responsibility is to their families, their communities, and there employers

Question 11

low-context culture

Answer 11

a culture in which people are expected to be direct and to say what they mean

Question 12

high-context culture

Answer 12

a culture in which people are taught to speak in an indirect inexplicit way

Question 13

low-power-distance culture

Answer 13

a culture in which people believe that no one person or group should have excessive (överdriven) power

Question 14

high-power-distance culture

Answer 14

a culture in which certain groups, such as the royal family or the members of the ruling political party, have much greater power that the average citizen

Question 15

masculine culture

Answer 15

a culture in which people cherish traditionally masculine values and prefer sex-specific roles for women and men

Question 16

feminine culture

Answer 16

a culture in which people cherish traditionally feminine values and prefer sex-specific roles for women and men

Question 17

monochronic culture

Answer 17

a culture that views time as a finite (ändlig) and tangible (konkret) commodity (råvara)

Question 18

polychronic culture

Answer 18

a culture that views time as holistic, fluid, and infinite (oändlig)

Question 19

uncertainty avoidance

Answer 19

the extent to which people try to avoid situations that are unstructured, unclear, or unpredictable

Question 20

mindful

Answer 20

aware- as in being aware of how other cultures’ behaviors and whys of thinking are likely to differ from one’s own

Question 21

ethnocentrism

Answer 21

the tendency to judge other cultures’ practices as inferior to one’s owe

Question 22

communication codes

Answer 22

verbal and nonverbal behavior whose meanings are often understood only by people from the same culture

Question 23

adapt

Answer 23

to change one’s behavior to accommodate (anpassa) what others are doing