Communication
The closest distance that others can come to you in various situations without your feeling uncomfortable.
What is personal space?
It includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by members of society.
What is culture?
it includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs, and any other habits acquired by society.
What is the concept of culture?
Believing that a person does one thing at a time, we have a strong orientation toward the present and the short-term future.
What is monochronic time perspective?
This variable causes North Americans to see Latin Americans as pushy and Latin Americans see North Americans as distant, cold, and snobbish.
What is space?
The words or language(s) that a society uses to transmit messages.
What is a verbal communication system?
The boundaries that culture sets on behavior. These are the rules that specify or prohibit certain behaviors in specific situations.
What are norms?
The boundaries that are derived from cultural values.
What are norms?
Viewing simultaneous involvement in many activities as natural.
What is polychronic time perspective?
Americans tend to rely on a legal system to enforce them, and yet other countries rely on the power of relationships, friendships, and kinships to maintain these.
What are agreements?
The arbitrary meanings a culture assigns actions, events, and things other than words.
What are non-verbal communication systems?
Widely held beliefs that affirm what is desirable.
What are cultural values?
It's the acquisition of items for the sake of owning the item itself.
What is terminal materialism?
Reflect the objective and approaches to life that the individual member of society find desirable.
What are self-oriented values?
Colors, animals, shapes, numbers, and music have varying meaning across cultures. Such as seeing an American baby wearing a pink or blue outfit.
What are symbols?
The seven variables of nonverbal communication systems.
What are time, space, symbols, relationships, agreements, things, and etiquette.
Penalties ranging from mild social disapproval to banishment from a group.
What are sanctions?
Is the acquisition in things to enable one to do something.
What is instrumental materialism?
Society's relationship to its economic and technical as we as its physical environment.
What are environment oriented values?
Rights and obligations are imposed on these as in China, favors are banked, reciprocity is observed. They are often built and given up quickly in America. In China they are formed over a long period and maintained.
What are relationships?
The Chinese term for personal connections/relationships.
What is Guanxi /ɡwanˈCHē/?
Refers to the degree to which people accept inequality in power, authority, status, and wealth as inherent in society.
What is power distance?
The three broad forms of core values that vary across culture and influence behaviors.
What are other-oriented, environment-oriented, and self-oriented values?
Reflects society’s view of the appropriate relationships between individuals and groups within that society.
What are other oriented values?
Cultural meaning leads to purchase patterns that wouldn't otherwise be predicted. Variation in the assigned meaning of these could cause problems, for instance gifting a clock in china.
What are things?