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Achievement Culture

a culture that places a high value on the achievement of material success and a focus on the task at hand; aka "masculine" culture

Co-culture

a group within an encompassing culture with a perceived identity (age, race, sexual orientation, nationality, region, religion)

Collective Culture

a culture whose members feel loyalties and obligations to an in-group, such as an extended family, a community, and even a work organization (Who are you? I am an employee of ___ Corporation)

Culture

the language, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs people share and learn

Ethnicity

a person's identification with a social group on the basis of common national or cultural traditions

Ethnocentrism

an attitude that one's own culture is superior to that of others

High-Context Culture

a culture that relies heavily on verbal and nonverbal cues to maintain social harmony; value is placed on subtle communication and nonverbal interaction (Asian countries)

Individualistic Culture

a culture in which people view their primary responsibility as helping themselves; "what's important to me, what do I get out of it, how can this help me improve?"

In-Group

a group with which an individual identifies herself or himself (I am a student)

Intercultural Communication

communication that occurs when members of two or more cultures or other groups exchange messages in a manner that is influenced by their different cultural perceptions and symbol systems (not all communication is intercultural, Henry and I have different backgrounds, but that's not always important in our relationship)

Low-Context Culture

a culture that uses language primarily to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas as clearly and logically as possible; value placed on the spoken word, direct & explicit messages (US, though the US exhibits both cultures)

Nurturing Culture

a culture that regards the support of relationships as an especially important goal; aka "feminine" culture

Organizational Culture

a relatively stable, shared set of rules about how to behave and set of values about what is important in a given organization (staying until 6:30 to chat with co-workers when the workday ends at 5)

Out-Group

a group that an individual sees as different from himself or herself (I am not a parent)

Power Distance

the degree to which members of a society accept the unequal distribution of power among members (low = believes that people are relatively similar in hierarchy status, high = there is a significant difference in how power is distributed)

Prejudice

an unfairly biased and intolerant attitude toward others who belong to an out-group

Race

a social category originally created to explain differences between people whose ancestors originated in different regions of the world

Salience

the significance attached to a particular person or phenomenon (preschoolers playing together don't notice differences until other cultural factors are introduced)

Social Identity

the part of the self-concept that is based on membership in groups

Uncertainty Avoidance

the tendency of a culture's members to feel threatened by ambiguous situations, and how much they try to avoid them (low = they do not try to avoid uncertainty, more tolerant of change; high = do not like change, value stability and history)