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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 |
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Co-culture |
a group within an encompassing culture with a perceived identity (age, race, sexual orientation, nationality, region, religion) |
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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) |
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Culture |
the language, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs people share and learn |
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Ethnicity |
a person's identification with a social group on the basis of common national or cultural traditions |
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Ethnocentrism |
an attitude that one's own culture is superior to that of others |
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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) |
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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?" |
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In-Group |
a group with which an individual identifies herself or himself (I am a student) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Nurturing Culture |
a culture that regards the support of relationships as an especially important goal; aka "feminine" culture |
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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) |
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Out-Group |
a group that an individual sees as different from himself or herself (I am not a parent) |
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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) |
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Prejudice |
an unfairly biased and intolerant attitude toward others who belong to an out-group |
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Race |
a social category originally created to explain differences between people whose ancestors originated in different regions of the world |
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Salience |
the significance attached to a particular person or phenomenon (preschoolers playing together don't notice differences until other cultural factors are introduced) |
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Social Identity |
the part of the self-concept that is based on membership in groups |
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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) |