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Vocab. Quiz Flashcards

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Acculturation

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immigrant learning and adopting the norms and values of the new host’s culture

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Anomia

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actual or perceived social isolation that is associated with anxiety/uncertainty

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Assimilation

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immigrants giving up their original culture identity and moving into full participation of the new culture

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avoidance behavior

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aversion to being with someone from another culture

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Belief system

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the cognitive structure of attitudes, beliefs, values, and world view as they collectively influence one’s speech and actions

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biculturalism *

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ability to function in 2 cultures

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Cognitive complexity

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communication theory indicating a cultures emphasis on a group of people and collectives as an organizing principle to explain cultural behavior

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Collectivism

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theory indicating a cultures emphasis on group and whole rather than individual to explain cultural behavior

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Communication apprehension

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uncertainty about communication, resulting in, shyness, anxiety, nervousness with speaking to someone, group, public

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Communication Ritual

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a set form of basic systematic interactions that take place on a regular basis

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Complexity

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when innovations are perceived to be too difficult to understand or use, they are said to have high complexity. Results in lower adoption rates in a culture

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Coping behavior

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when people exhibit actions and attitudes demonstrating their willingness to communicate effectively or adapt to the situation

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cosmopolitanism

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degree of one’s orientation outside of one’s culture, as in how much a person might seek information from others outside their own culture

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cross-cultural communication

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comparison of cultural phenomena on different cultures

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cultural change

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often refers to the rate of adaptability or stability of the entire culture

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cultural elements

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factors that make up cultural systems; the specif factors within a cultural system that are parts making the entire culture

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cultural history

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the background, including origins, territory and variations and changes over time

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Cultural identity

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sense of a person as part of a group or culture that usually implies a variable sense of worth

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Cultural pluralism

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multiculturalism; many subcultures existing together in a larger culture

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Cultural stress

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the amount of tension and conflict experienced in a culture when unusual amounts of changes occur

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Cultural theories

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Explanations of culture including elements and interrelationships of elements to describe cultural systems

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Cultural variability

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when the differences are encountered between people from diverse cultures, variability is present

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Culture shock*

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the stress associated with adapting to a new culture

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Dialect

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regional and ethnic variation of language

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Diaspora

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massivee mirgration caused by war or famine that results in dispersal of the unified group

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Dissonance

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Conflict between 2 cognitive eleements within a person

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Dogatism

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degree of ridgity, lack of openess in communication because of rigid boundaries

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Dual-culture marriage

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intercultural marriage, marriage between people from diverse cultural backgrounds

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Emic

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knowledge leardned from the inside; norms of culture known by its members

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Empathy

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the behavior demonstrating understadning openess and engaement with a person or group from a culture different than ones own

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Endogamy

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cultuarl pactice of marriage inside ones social unit, such as trribe village, nation

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Etic*

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Knowledge leaned by an outsider by observing insiders

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Ethics

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the judgement of standards of behavior that is considered right and moral in that culture

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Ethnocentrism

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cultural attitude that ones own culture is superior to others

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Exogamy

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cultural pratice of marriage outside of ones significant social unit

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Familism

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Sense of putting family ahead of individual wants/needs

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Functionalism

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cultural theoy dealing with the needs experssed by a culutre that help explain why that culure has deveploed its culutres, norms, rules, values

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Guilt cultures

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cultures that emphasize individual blame and personal responsibility for failure

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Hate crimes

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crime that grows out of fear of differernces ersulting in hostility those who are percieved different due to race, sexual identity, gender, religion

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Individualism

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culturral thoey indicationg emphasis on the indivial actons rather than the whole groups, comparred to collectivism

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Innovativeness

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the degree of reletive ealy or rlate adoption of an innovation in the diffusion of innovation prrocess

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Integration

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maintaing impartant pats of ones culture while fully parrtcipating in the new culturre

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Intercultural communication

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inteaction between people from different culturral backgrounds

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International communication

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communication between nations

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Interrracial communication

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interaction from different ethnic groupd

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Linguistic community

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grroups or cultures thay use the same lanague

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Material culture

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technology, food, and other material items significant to a culture

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Openeess

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communication qualtty of penetrations and often undrstanding during a communication encounter

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Patriarchy

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Cultural kinship system where powerr rand auhtority str assumed in the males of the family

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Preuiduce

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Irrational sucspion o hatred of a parrticular group, racee, rrleigion, seuxual orrienttation

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Racism

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negative attitudes associted with bias and jedgemeent towarrds racial group other than ones own. ones group is superior to others

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Ritual

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regular prractice within a culutre; often holds ceremonai importance

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Rurality

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the degree of ones orientation towards rural living and the associated practices and customes

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Sacred Culture

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Aspect of worldview in a culture where it is believed that metaphysical or spiritual factors are a meaningful or more meaningful than physical factors associated with th culture

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Secular Culture

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asoeect of world view where physicla and material aspects of culutr are more imporrtant than thee spiritual ascpects of the culture

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Self Esteem

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degree of percieved self worth

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Shamanism

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Cultural belif that a person has unusual, often magiacl powers to communicate with spirrtiaul forces

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Social class

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social category based on cultura standards related to educatiton, income, and occupation

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Sojounerrs

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People who move into a newe cultural context for ra limiteed period of time fo study or work

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Sterotypung

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systematic bias based on belifes about a cultural group or memberr of a group

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Submission style

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styke of interavtion for an interculturral couple in which one partner yields to the others cultural patterns, abondoning their own culture

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Themes of culture

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cultures have key calues often eexprsseed in heros and stores that inform significant themes wovn thorughout a cultur

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Urbanity

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dgree of orientation toward city living and asxociated customs and practices that come with it

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Uncerrtanty reduction

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thoeery that one goal of communication is to clairrfy and reduce ambiguity

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Whorf Hypothesis

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idea that language shapes ones percption of reality

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World View

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Cultural belifs about the nature of the universe and ones place in it

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Xenophobia

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Unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners

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