High context culture

comes from an assessment of time which shows that monochromic cultures have a linear time while polychromic cultures are doing many things at once, therefore, the time is spend doing many things at once. Canada happens to be a monochromic culture because they tend to focus on their work, follow a specific timeline, and get things done even if it means having a short term success. India, on the other hand, is a more polychromic culture because they like to do multiple things at once, are…

group experience. Insensitivity to other cultures can cause patronising communication. In my group work I felt that because my group members could not understand my cultural background they…

and Horkheimer on Culture Industry as the Anti-Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception With a strongly detesting attitude toward the rise of the modern industry of popular culture, the article written by Adorno and Horkheimer on the culture industry gives the audience a sense that: instead of being called culture industry, it is rather a manifesto about anti-culture industry. It is indicated that “the culture industry administers a non-spontaneous, reified, phony culture rather than…

people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behaviour - based on information collected through fieldwork.” - Marvin Harris and Orna Johnson (2000) Introduction An ethnography is a form of research that brings insight to specific issues that would be hard to understand as an outsider looking into a certain culture. Ethnographies enlighten others and give reasoning to a cultures beliefs, practices and mannerism. Cop in the Hood by Peter…

This theory posits that different types of comparisons (i.e., comparing the self to some “idealized” form of the self or comparing the self to some “ought-to-be” form of the self) lead to different emotional outcomes (Higgins, 1987). These emotional outcomes include two separate classes of emotion: agitation-based and dejection-based feelings (Higgins, 1987). Each class of emotion requires different organizational or managerial reactions in order to dissipate (discussed in detail later; Higgins,…

media has on mothering and how that increases competition among mothers, this article is called,‘“Am I a Better Mother Than You?’ Media and 21st-Century Motherhood in the Context of the Social Comparison Theory.” Apart from the study on mothering, a film titled, “Devil Wears Prada,”…

There is a debate on culture uniformity, on one side, theory of convergence support uniformity by providing argument that because of the business around the world is relying more on the technology as it moves to industrialized era, culture would become more similar (Sparrow, Schuler, & Jackson, 1994). On the other side, there is a view about culture divergence means that uniformity is unlikely to take place as the characteristic of culture is unique and dynamic (Kelley & Reeser, 1973; Lincoln,…

Cultures all around the word use different animals or figures to symbolize other things. When someone says the word “snake,” things such as a gardner snake or a rattle snake might come to mind. Now when a person hears the word “serpent”, depending on the cultural location, many different images can come to mind. The serpent is used in a latin term meaning, “A word used in mythological or religious contexts to denote a being that looks like a snake but has a heightened sense of intelligence”…

other members of my group do not bring is that I am very familiar with the Indian culture (because my family is from India) and therefore, I am able to bring a knowledge of a cultural perspective to our TOC-creation-process. I think that looking at various interventions through this lens is useful because I can get a better idea of what interventions will be more successful than others in this particular cultural context. In many ways, however, I do believe that this observational standpoint is…

Organizational culture is a system of values “that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization” (Business Dictionary, u.d.). These cultural values, such as beliefs and assumptions, are the glue that pull the organization together, and is determined by setting respectable standards of what is appropriate and expected by the organizational members. They makes out to be the written and unwritten rules within the organization. The standards often bases on the…