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20 Cards in this Set
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Chronemics
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The concept of time and the rules that govern its use
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Contact cultures
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Cultural groups in which people tend to stand close together and touch frequently when they interact-for example, cultural groups in South America, the Middle East, and Southern Europe
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Non-contact cultures
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Cultural groups in which people tend to maintain more space and touch less often than people do in contact cultures. For instance, Great Britain and Japan tend to have non-contact cultures
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Cultural Space
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The particular configuration of the communication that constructs meanings of various places
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Deception
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The act of making someone believe what is not true
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Nonverbal Behavior
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Facial expression, personal space, gestures, eye contact, use of time, and conversational status
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Eye contact
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A nonverbal code, eye gaze, that communicates meanings about respect and status and often regulates turn-taking during interactions
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Facial Expression
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Facial gestures that convey emotions and attitudes
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Monochronic
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An orientation to time that assumes it is linear and is a commodity that can be lost or gained
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Polychronic
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An orientation to time that sees it as circular and more holistic
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Postmodern cultural spaces
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Places that are defined by cultural practices: Languages spoken, identities enacted, rituals performed, and that often change as new people move in and out of these spaces
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Regionalism
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Loyalty to a particular region that holds significant cultural meaning for that person
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Relational messages
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Messages (verbal and nonverbal) that communicate how we feel about others
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Status
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The relative position an individual holds in social or organizational settings
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Travel
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Traveling changes cultural spaces in ways that often transform the traveler
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Migration
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People who migrate do not always seek out the change as of a travel, which is the change is fleeting, temporary, and usually desirable: it is something that travelers seek out
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Eight Mile Road
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Road that seperates one city that is 91% white from the other that is overwhelmingly African American in Detroit, Michigan
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Cultural variation or Stereotype
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One of the problems with identifying cultural variations in nonverbal codes is that it is tempting to overgeneralize these variations and stereotype people
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Universality of nonverbal behavior
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(1) The relationship of human behavior to that of primates. (2) Nonverbal communication of sensory-deprived children who are blind or deaf. (3) Facial expressions, and (4) universal functions of nonverbal social behavior
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Silence
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Silence is not highly valued, Particularly in developing relationships, silence communicates awkwardness and can make people feel uncomfortable
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