Exam 3 Flashcards
Stranger
Someone whom you do not know and who is therefore unfamiliar to you
Acquaintances
Someone you know but only casually
Friends
Someone you know well, someone you like, and someone with whom you feel a close personal bond
Romantic Partners
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Family
Kinship relationships that are characterized by large cultural variations
U-Curve
The initial intercultural contacts are characterized by a positive, almost euphoric, emotional response
W-Curve
The persons responses to her or his own culture upon return
Assimilation
Occurs when it is deemed relatively unimportant to maintain ones original cultural identity but it is important to establish and maintain relationships with other culture
Re-entry Shock
Occurs when the individual returns home and must readapt to the once taken-for-granted practices that can no longer be followed without question
Integration
When an individual or group retains its original cultural identity while seeking to maintain harmonious relationships with other cultures
Separation
If a culture does not want positive relationships with another culture and if it also wishes to retain its cultural characteristics
Segregation
If the separation occurs because the more politically and economically powerful culture does not want the intercultural contact, this is the result of forced separation
Seclusion
When a non dominant group chooses not to participate in the larger society in order to retain its own way of life
Marginalization
When individuals or groups neither retain their cultural heritage nor maintain positive contact with other cultural groups
Accent
Distinguishable marks of pronunciation
Proxemics
The study of how people differ in their use of personal space
Chronemics
The study of time- how people use it, structure it, interpret it, and understand its passage
Kinesics
The study of body movements, often inaccurately called body language
Vocalists
Non-speech sounds, such as belching, laughing, crying, and vocal filler sounds like uh, er, um, and uh-huh