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25 Cards in this Set
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Three benefits and three challenges to intercultural relationships
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Benefits:
1. Acquiring knowledge about the world 2. Breaking stereotypes 3. Acquiring new skills Challenges 1. Negative stereotyping 2. Anxiety that people experience 3. People who cross boundaries often have to explain this to their respective communities |
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Cultural differences in the concept of friendship
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To some people, a friend is someone to see or talk with occasionally, someone to do things with-go to a movie, discuss interests, maybe share problems. Other people, however, view friendship much more seriously. For them, a friendship takes a long time to develop, includes many obligations, and is a life-long proposition. Cultural difference in notions about friendships are related to ideas about identity and values
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Cultural differences in relational development
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In some cultural communities, all strangers are viewed as sources of potential relationships; in others, relationships can develop only after long and careful scrutiny
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Cognitive consistency
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Having a logical connection between existing knowledge and a new stimulus
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Similarity Principle
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A principle of relational attraction suggesting that individuals tend to be attracted by people they perceive to be similar to themselves
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Relational Learning
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Learning that comes from a particular relationship but generalizes to other contexts
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Quanxi
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A Chinese term for relational network
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Kurt Lewin's three areas of information we share with others
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Outer Boundary
Middle Circle Inner Core |
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Outer Boundary
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Outer Boundary that includes superficial information about ourselves and out lives- our general interest, and our daily life.
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Middle Circle
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Middle circle includes more personal information- perhaps our life history, our family background
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Inner Core
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Inner Core includes very personal and private information, some which we share with no one
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Intimacy
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The extent of emotional closeness
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Frequency of Intercultural dating today, and explanations for the frequency
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U.S Americans today are much more open to intercultural relationships. Explanations for this is because We are attracted to them, and the relationship offers benefits- increased knowledge about the world and the breaking of stereotypes
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Challenges of intercultural marriages
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Face challenges of family and social disapproval and issues of child rearing
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Line in sight data
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Information about other people's identity based upon visible physical characteristics
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Intercultural relationships online (CMC)
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Online relationships are both similar to and different from RL (real-life) human relationships. Language and communication-style differences can be exacerbated in online communication. Present many opportunities for intercultural relationships
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Four Interaction Styles in intercultural marriages
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1. Submission: One partner submits to the culture of the other partner
2. Compromise: Each partner gives up some of his/her own cultural background 3. Obliteration: Both partners erase their cultural backgrounds 4. Consensus: Partners continually negotiate a shared cultural background |
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Gay and Lesbian relationships
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In gay and lesbian relationships, friendship and sexual involvement are not mutually exclusive. Homosexuality had existed in every society and in every era
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Self-Disclosure
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Revealing information about oneself
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Complementarity
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1. NOT simply “opposites,” but “productive opposites”
2. Two people who are a “good fit” 3. Bill is an introvert and Dana is an extrovert |
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Proximity and its impact on the formation of Intercultural relationships
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Intercultural relationships often include competence, similarity, involvement, and turning points
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Dialectical tensions in relationships
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A dialectic is a set of unresolved tensions; two things set in opposition to each other
In relationships, we often find ourselves torn between two competing and contradictory impulses 1. Connection-Autonomy 2. Predictability-Novelty 3. Openness-Closedness |
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Intercultural Work relationships
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Relationships at work are characterized by hierarchy and sometimes varying attitudes toward power
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Reasons for Relational Growth
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1. Relational support
2. Caring, positive exchange of ideas 3. Respect and Acceptance 4. Recognizing the needs of others |
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 10
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