quiz 4 Flashcards
Culture
learned, begins at birth
intercultural communication
communicates with someone from a different culture
layered
experience multiple layers of culture simultaneously
lived
culture affects how you live your life
co-cultures
don’t conform to the dominant culture, they have their own culture that co-exists within dominant culture
1st stage (culture shock)
honeymoon - fascination and enchantment, excited by all the new things you encounter
2nd stage (culture shock)
crisis - frustration, inadequacy, actual “shock” stage, faced with difficulties, notice all the differences
3rd stage (culture shock)
recovery - learn skills, language, new ways of doing things, shock subsides
4th stage (culture shock)
adjustment - enjoy new culture, still periodic, better integrated, and more conformable
individualistic
“i”, individualistic achievement, value independence and personal achievement, focus on themselves and immediate family
collectivistic
“we” rather than “me”, emphasize group identity, interpersonal harmony, and the well-being of in-groups
_____ has the highest amount of social media usage in the world and _____ has the least
Brazil, Japan
_____ is the global average of social media usage
2.26 (hours.minutes)
high power distance
people of different social and professional status have different levels of power, respect power
low power distance
people in high-status positions try to minimize the differences between them and lower-status people, informal interactions
high-context cultures
people presume others share their viewpoints and thus perceive situations in the same way, talk indirectly, use hints
low-context cultures
people tend not to presume that others share their beliefs, attitudes, and values, are informative, clear, and direct
mono-chronic time-oriented (m-time)
view time as a precious resource, it can be saved, wasted, lost, or made up, and it can even run out
poly-chronic time-oriented (p-time)
don’t view time as a resource spent, saved, or guarded, usually flexible when it comes to time
world-mindedness
demonstrated acceptance and respect towards other cultures’ beliefs, values, and customs
ethnocenturism
the belief that one’s own cultural beliefs, attitudes, values, and practices are superior to others
gender polarization
in which “virtually every aspect of the human experience” is connected to male-female sex distinctions. We are moving away from this to more gradients of gender
nonbinary, gender fluid, or genderqueer
disregard binary understandings of gender, cultural shift to use preferred pronouns, they/them, she/her, he/him
gender
anatomical, biological distinctions, assigned a “sex category” at birth
gender identity
internal to you/ deeply felt awareness or inner sense of being a boy, man, or male; a girl, woman, or female, or an alternative
transgender
people self-label differently than their sex category assigned at birth
cisgender
people self-label the same as their sex category assigned at birth
gender (broadly)
boarder term, encompassing the social, psychological, and behavioral attributes that a particular culture associates with an individuals biological sex
women CEOs run ______ of fortune 500 countries, this is the first time in history
10.4%
gender is learned and socially constructed–true or false
true
the pink tax
not actually a tax; a form of gender-based pricing discrimination where some products marketed towards women are more expensive than those marketed toward men, despite the product’s similarity
personal care products targeted toward women cost an average of _____ more than those similar products targeted at men
12.7%
lego vows to remove gender bias from its toys to create a more inclusive play. _____ of girls and _____ of boys feel uncomfortable when playing with opposite gender toys
40%, 75%
doing gender
not a static object or a possession that never changes. we can not opt out of doing gender. it is interactional
gender roles
shared societal expectations for conducts and behaviors that are deemed appropriate for girls/women and boys/men
