Dimensionalities of Cultures
What is Hofstede's Short hand Definition of Culture?
Culture is the collective programing of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others.
What are the Five determinants of ones perception?
subject/activity, the situation, ones status in the social system, past experience and culture.
The US is characterized as being uniquely "______" in terms of Individualism?
Rugged
Do Singapore, China, Germany, and Japan have tight or loose cultures?
Tight
Formal communication (law, diplomacy) is usually considered LC (low context), so an individual speaks a lot/very little in order to get their message across.
Formal communication is LC so individuals speak a lot more than during HC communication.
What are the two aspects of the "two dimensional ways of looking at the world"?
Group and Grid
What is the major shortcoming of the ancient Greek method of thinking about context and meanings?
Prioritizes the analysis of ideas rather than the surrounding events.
What is Gelfand's system of measuring culture called?
looseness-tightness system
True or False: Tight cultures struggle with addiction more than lose cultures.
False
True or False: China is a high context culture, so people there use more explicit communication than people in the United States.
False
What is the term of Judging people by who they are. And what two scholars include this in their five determinants of human action?
Ascription, Talcott Parsons/Edward Shills.
What are the three aspects of the rectangle provided in the contexts and meanings reading?
Context, information and meanings
Tight cultures are usually found where? (Hint: four geographic areas)
"South and East Asia, the Middle East, and in European countries of Nordic and Germanic origin"
What is the most diverse country in the world, according to the podcast?
The United States
Explain the screening function of culture.
"One of the functions of culture is to provide a highly selective screen between man and the outside world . . . . culture therefore designates what we pay attention to and what we ignore."
Parents teaching children obedience is an example of what type of power difference?
Large Power Difference.
How is High context different from Low context?
it is fast, efficient, and satisfying.
Society is more orderly in a tight culture, why?
order is prioritized, conformity is praised while individualism can be shunned, tight cultures appreciate traditionalism and can sometimes be seen as hostile to avant-garde or societal transformative trends(to only list a few possible answers).
Give the meaning of every letter in WEIRD.
Western
Educated
Industrialized
Rich
Democratic
Five rules determine how an individual perceives an event. Name one, other than culture.
The subject of activity
The situation
One's status in a social system
Past experience
Which project tried to extend Hofstede's Dimensions and by how many new dimensions?
GLOBE, 5 to 18.
What is Barker's major findings in relation to the environment?
The environment provides and regulates the inputs, providing unique inputs to different people.
Do people have a thicker Corpus Callosum in societies that are highly literate or illiterate?
Literate Societies
Are post-Soviet countries loose or tight typically?
Loose
Which are more resistant to change - high context cultures or low context cultures?
High context cultures are more resistant to change.