Paradigms
to predict
What is the goal of the social scientific approach?
Differences in communication styles, values, and perceptions; negative stereotypes, anxiety, and the need to explain ourselves to others.
What are the challenges in intercultural relationships?
Cultures where people make very little physical contact with others.
What are noncontact cultures?
The feelings of discomfort we experience when we go to a new place.
What is culture shock?
The systems or artifacts that most people share and know about
What is popular culture?
to understand
What is the goal of the interpretative paradigm?
Acquiring knowledge about the world, breaking stereotypes, and acquiring new skills.
What are the benefits of intercultural relationships?
A word that describes when people change from one language or dialect to another, depending on who they are speaking to or the context?
What is codeswitching?
Theory that explains what happens when we return home after being in a new place.
What is the w-curve?
Pop culture from this country is exported much more that the country imports from other parts of the world.
What is the United States?
to emancipate people
What is the goal of the critical approach?
People from these types of cultures tend to view friendships as long-term and involving obligations.
What is collectivistic?
A theory that describes how people from outside of the dominant group make choices in their communication about how much they want to assimilate, accommodate, or separate.
What is co-cultural theory?
The feeling you experience when you are in a new place and don't know what's going to happen.
What is predictive uncertainty?
Sussan doesn't like a particular series because it shows her cultural group negatively. She doesn't watch it and encourages other to not watch it. What is this called?
What is resisting?
Surveys, experiments, and observation.
What methods are used from a social scientific approach?
People from these type of countries tend to view friendship as more voluntary, individual-oriented and spontaneous.
What is individualistic?
The idea that our language shapes the way we view the world.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
What is explanatory uncertainty?
This test measures the complexity of women characters in films.
What is the Bechtel Test?
Interviews and participant observation
What methods are used by interpretive scholars?
What is the differences-similarities dialectic?
When people from a culture put most of the message in the context, not the words.
What is high context?
When you give up everything your own culture to adapt to the new culture.
What is assimilation?
What is the term for when US pop culture is exported to other countries, resulting in cultural or media from the US dominating pop culture worldwide?
What is cultural imperialism?