Cultural Dimensions Flashcards
1
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what is a collectivist society?
A
value is placed on the group as a whole and identifying and helping your group is valued highly
2
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what is an individualistic society?
A
value is placed on the individual themself and their own ideas, opinions, aims and dreams
3
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what is surface culture
A
- What you can see, hear, smell or taste about a culture. - - The manifestation of deep culture that can be seen, such as literature, dance or food
- eating food with hands
4
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what is deep culture
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- values and beliefs that underpin the surface culture.
- may not immediately obvious about a culture and you would need to know more about the culture to understand it
- belief in incarnation
5
Q
what is the study?
A
bond & smith (1996)
6
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what is the aim?
A
investigating the effect of culture on conformity
7
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what is the sample?
A
133 studies in 17 countries
8
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what is the procedure?
A
- meta analysis
- enables them to collect a lot of quantitative data, more than would be collected in a single experiment
- increase the reliability of the results
9
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what are the results?
A
- collectivist countries like Fiji, Hong Kong and Japan conformed more in the replication of Asch’s conformity experiment
- more individualistic places like the USA, Netherlands and France conformed a lot less
10
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link to question
A
- links to collectivism
- emphasis is placed on harmony within the group,
- Fiji, Hong Kong and Japan to be more willing to conform with the confederates because of collectivist society
