Conflict
A learned set of interpretations, values, norms, and social practices, which affect behaviors of a large group of people.
What is culture?
The process by which people use shared verbal or nonverbal codes, systems, and/or media to exchange information in a particular cultural context.
What is communication?
Social expectations for appropriate behaviors in a culture.
What are norms?
The universal tendency for any people to put its own culture and society in a central position of priority and worth.
What is ethnocentrism?
The process of increasing interconnectedness between societies such that events in one place in the world are having more and deeper effects on people and societies far away.
What is globalization?
The type of conflict that does not involve the use of armed forces.
What is low intensity conflict?
The theory that states that over time and persistent exposure, media messages influence audience’s real-world social perceptions.
What is cultivation theory?
The outcome of acculturation.
What is adaptation?
A person in a host country traveling for an unlimited time of stay, involuntarily.
What is a refugee?
The principle that states we tend to form close relationships with those who we encounter regularly in our daily lives.
What is proximity?
Conflict management style that is high in concern for other, and low in concern for self.
What is the accommodating style?
The process by which the media directly affects a passive audience.
What is magic bullet/needle theory?
A short term period of disorientation/discomfort due to the unfamiliarity of a new cultural environment experienced when returning home.
What is reverse culture shock?
The belief that a culture should be interpreted in its context.
What is cultural relativism?
The principle that we are attracted to people who are somewhat different from ourselves?
What is complementarity?
A view of conflict as an opportunity to grow and develop closer relationships.
What is conflict-as-normal or conflict-as-constructive approach?
The process through which information that has been recently activated by media consumption is used to guide judgments regarding target outgroup members.
What is priming?
A stress reaction to challenging life events that are rooted in the experiences of acculturation.
What is acculturative stress?
A person traveling for a limited time, voluntarily.
What are tourists?
The principle that if we perceive our attitudes to be similar to someone else’s, we are attracted to them because they validate our view of the world.
What is the similarity attraction paradigm?
The concept of seeing the issue from the perspective of the other party.
What is relational empathy?
The process of focusing on certain issues, people, and phenomena over others, the media influences what we perceive as important in the world today and how that is reflected in policy.
What is agenda setting?
When there is little possibility of or interest in cultural maintenance and little interest in having relationship with others.
What is marginalization?
The process by which a new cultural form combines elements of other cultures.
What is cultural hybridization?
The extent to which a person lacks the knowledge, information, and ability to understand and predict the intentions and behaviors of another.
What is uncertainty?