cultural differences

Question 1

culture definition

Answer 1

• The man-made part of the human environment.

-The knowledge, belief, art, morals, laws, customs, capabilities and habits acquired by an individual as a member of society.

• The learned meanings of a human population that are transmitted from one generation to the next.

-The collective programming of the mind that distinguishes members of one group from members of another

Question 2

social systems

Answer 2

• behaviour of multiple individuals within a culturally-organised population,

e.g. patterns of interaction and networks of social relationships

nations, organisations, families etc.

Basically a group of people that relate to one another

Question 3

emic

Answer 3

• grounded in specific cultural context
• no claim to generality or attempt to compare

Question 4

etic

Answer 4

• aspire to universality or at least comparability
• imposed etic vs. derived etic

Question 5

Hofstede

Answer 5

• employee satisfaction surveys
• over 100k people

found 4 variants of cross-cultural variation:

• power distance
• uncertainty avoidance
• induvidualism
• masculinity

Question 6

power distance

Answer 6

extent to which members of society accent that power in institutions is organised unequally

• survey item e.g.: employees afraid to disagree with managers

high in malaysia
low in austria