Intercultural Comm Exam 2 Flashcards
What are shared interpretations?
The subtle, less visible differences between cultures.
What are cultural patterns?
Shared beliefs, values, norms, and social practices that are stable over time and that lead to roughly similar behaviors across similar situations. These exist primarily inside people’s minds.
What are central beliefs?
The culture’s fundamental teachings about what reality is and expectations about how the world works.
What are peripheral beliefs?
Matters of personal taste.
What are two types of social practices?
Informal and formal.
According to Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck, what are the five problems everyone in a culture must solve?
- What is the human orientation to activity?
- What is the relationship of humans to each other?
- What is the nature of human beings?
- What is the relationship of humans to the natural world?
- What is the orientation of humans to time?
What is activity orientation?
How other people of a culture view human actions and expression of self through activities. A doing culture has a problem solution orientation.
What is social relations orientation?
This describes ho people in a culture organize themselves and relate to one another.
What is self-orientation?
This describes how people’s identities are formed, whether the culture views the self as changeable, what motivates individual actions, and the kinds of people who are valued and respected.
What is world orientation?
Cultural patterns that tell people how to locate themselves in relation to the spiritual world, nature, and other living things.
What is time orientation?
A culture’s relationship with the past, present, and future, measuring time, view of time, and value of time.
What are valence and intensity?
Valence is whether the idea is seen as positive or negative. Intensity indicates the strength or importance of the value.
What are the seven elements included in the synthesis of taxonomies?
- Individualism-collectivism
- Power distance
- Gender expectations
- Task relationship
- Uncertainty avoidance
- Harmony-Mastery
- Time orientation
Who was really into CONTEXT as the foundation for cultural differences?
Hall
What does GLOBE stand for?
Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness
What was unique to the Project GLOBE taxonomies?
GLOBE distinguishes between in-group collectivism (like loyalty to families) and institutional collectivism (like collective actions and distributions of resources).
Who asked about World Orientation, and how does that fit into to the sythensis of taxonomies?
Kluckhohn & Strodtbeck asked about World orientation.
In the synthesis, it’s referred to as Harmony-Mastery.
How do we describe a culture’s Gender Epectations?
We determine to what extent men are expected to be assertive or nurture, women are expected to be assertive or nurturing, and finally if men and women are equal or unequal.