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45 Cards in this Set
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Acculturation |
An immigrant's learning and adopting the values of a new host culture |
An immigrant in the new country |
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Assimilation |
An immigrant's giving up the original cultural identity and moving into full participation in the new culture |
Giving up |
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Attribution |
Attempts to explain the culture of others |
Explanation |
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Biculturalism |
Ability to function in 2 cultures |
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Chronometrics |
Study of our use of time |
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Context |
The information surrounding an event. The physical and social environment in which communication takes place |
Physical and social |
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Corporate culture |
Thinking of an organizations as a culture. The values, goals and priorities that guide policies and procedures of an organization |
V. G. P. =P + P |
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Cross cultural |
Comparison of cultural phenomenon in different cultures |
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Culture |
A shared system of attitudes beliefs values and behaviour |
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cultural adaptation |
An immigrant's learning and adopting the norms and values of the new host culture |
Synonymous to acculturation |
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Directness |
The open communication of meaning |
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Diversity |
Recognizing the value of the collective mix of differences and similarities between people and seeking to harness this richness in pursuit of organization goals in a changing local and global context |
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Emic approach |
Cultural specific. Only in one culture. It investigates how local people think. How they perceive the world, their rules for behaviour what has meaning for them and how they imagine and explain things |
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Enculturatiom |
Learning a primary culture |
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Equality |
Treating people fairly. Removing barriers to participation and redressing imbalances |
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Etic approach |
Cultural general in many cultures. The etic approach recognizes that members of a culture are often too involved in what they are doing to interpret their cultures impartially |
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Face |
The exterior dignity of a person |
Saving face |
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Femininity |
Where the characteristics of women don't overlap with men's |
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High context |
The information is transmitted implicitly. Dimension of culture holding that much of the meaning of messages is determined by the context or environment |
Japan |
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Inclusion |
The outcome we aspire to. People feel valued welcome and able to work |
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Indirectness |
The implicit communication of meaning |
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Individualism |
A system in which ties between individuals are loose |
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Integration |
Maintaining important parts of one's original culture as well as participating fully in the new culture |
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Intercultural |
Between cultures. Interactions among members of diverse cultures |
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International communications |
The study of the flow of meditated communication between and among countries. The study of mass communication systems. The study of communications between national government |
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Jargon |
Technical language of a professional subgroup |
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Kinesics |
Gestures body movements facial expressions and eye contact |
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Low context |
Where information is transmitted explicitly, dimension of culture holding that little of the meaning of messages is determined by the context or environment |
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Monochromic culture |
Doing one thing at a time in the use of time doing one thing at a time in an orderly fashion |
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Multiculturalism |
Understanding acceptance and constructive relations among people of many different cultures and subcultures. The salad bowl approach as it is sometimes referred to |
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Nonverbal communication |
Actions and attributes with a socially shared meaning intentionally sent and received |
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Paralanguage |
Nonverbal elements of the voice including intensity pitch laughter and so forth |
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Perception |
An awareness of what is happening in our environment act of becoming aware of knowing or identifying by the senses |
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Polychronic culture |
Doing many things at one time. In the use of time placing a stress on the involvement of people and completion rather than on adherence to schedules |
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Prejudice |
Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, religion or sexual orientation. Prejudice is the process of making decisions or judging smth with a premature mind and making your own facts instead of knowing the truth about a person |
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Bias |
A term used when choice can be made between two things and one choses according to his personal preference. Bias refers to a thought of an individual or a group which is leaning towards an area of life |
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Proxemics |
Use of fixed space, territoriality and personal space |
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Segregation / seperation |
Maintaining one's original culture and not participating in the new culture |
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Sexism |
Practice of limiting each gender to traditional roles |
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Sojourner |
One who lives in a country for a specific period of time and for a specific purpose such as employment and expects to return home |
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Stereotype |
The fixed idea that people have of a type of person or thing which in reality is not always true. Judgements made about another solely based on ethnicity or other group membership |
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Subculture |
Group within a larger society that shares distinctive cultural characteristics to distinguish it from others |
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Synergy |
Where the combined effect is more than the sum of the individual parts |
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Territoriality |
Refers to how space can be used to communicate messages |
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Universalism |
Where behaviour is guided by rules rather than specific circumstances |
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