Wild Card 1
This is a social construct that refers to the degree to which a person identifies with a particular group.
What is ethnicity?
When a person feels confused, disenchanted, lonesome, or homesick in a new cultural environment.
What is culture shock?
The language, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs people share and learn.
What is culture?
The belief that they are different from everybody else
What is personal fable?
The social theory advocating the liberty, rights, or independent action of the individual.
What is individualism?
This is a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
What is race?
This is an attitude that one’s own culture is superior to that of others.
What is ethnocentrism?
A group that is part of an encompassing culture.
What is coculture?
This reflects the degree to which members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous situations.
What is uncertainty avoidance?
The political principle of centralized social and economic control, especially of all means of production.
What is collectivism?
This is an unfairly biased and intolerant attitude toward others who belong to an out-group.
What is prejudice?
Individuals whose principal goal is to disrupt public discourse by posting false claims and prejudiced remarks, usually behind a mask of anonymity.
Who are social media trolls?
The weight people attach to cultural characteristics in a particular situation.
What is salience?
A heightened self-consciousness that makes it seem as if people are always observing and judging them.
What is imaginary audience?
The gap between those with substantial power and resources and those with less.
What is power distance.
The act depriving people of opportunities or equal treatment.
What is unfair discrimination?
Individuals who post insulting comments about people to get a rise out of them.
Who are social media snarks?
The people we consider to be similar to us and with whom we have an emotional connection.
What is in-group?
The exaggerated generalizations about a group or individual.
What is stereotyping?
These use language primarily to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas as directly as possible.
What are low-context cultures?
The complex interplay of people’s multiple identities.
What is intersectionality theory?
This is another term for culture shock.
What is adjustment shock?
The people we view as different and with whom we have little or no sense of affiliation.
What is out-group?
The ability to shift gears and adapt one’s style to the norms of multiple cultures.
What is frame switching?
These rely more on subtle, often nonverbal cues—such as behavior, history of the relationship, and general social rules—to maintain social harmony.
What are high-context cultures?