Culture? I Hardly Know Her!
Despite the reality of culture, cultural groups are often considered to large to be this.
What is Real?
We construct culture together via this, or the sharing of messages that are understood by groups of people.
What is communication?
We do this to communicate our identities to others, which consists of using signs and symbols to encode our being and others decode them and interpret who we are.
What is perform?
The patriarchy establishes that men should hold the primary roles of power, whereas women should act in supportive or custodial roles related to domestic life is an example of this, which becomes dominant through power.
What is an ideology?
This helps us make meaning out of messages, although it doesn't always have to be completely perfect!
What is grammar?
This element of culture is "an often-repeated pattern of behaviour which is performed at appropriate times, and which may involve the use of symbols." A Bat Mitzvah is an example of one of these in Jewish culture.
What are rituals?
Choosing to research the culture of another country before visiting could help alleviate this, or feelings of confusion and uncertainty when subjected to an unfamiliar culture.
What is culture shock?
Gender is one aspect of cultural identity that is often defined as biological, but a more accurate way of defining it would be as this, which addresses that how gender is understood changes over time and within different contexts.
What is socio-historical?
This determines your access to resources, social spaces, and power. In the United States, 4 of these are recognized ranging from lower class, to upper class.
What is social class?
Cultural memory is born from the material contact between this and this.
What is a remembering mind and a reminding object?
Cultural differences may impact our ability to do this with messages, which is also the goal of communication.
What is make shared meaning?
This 3-step process is the act of selecting, organizing, and interpreting messages, and is highly dependent on culture.
These are culture-specific, internalized situational concepts that people develop in their minds based on their day-to-day experiences. A culturally-specific example in Chinese culture would be refusing a gift or compliment several times before accepting.
What is a social script?
Examples of these types of countries include Brazil, India, South Africa, and surprisingly, China.
Showing up late for an appointment might be perceived as rude in the United States, but understandable in many Latin American countries due to cultural differences in how this nonverbal code is perceived.
What is chronemics?
One type of culture might be your ethnic or racial background, which contrasts with this type of culture, which might describe the norms and values of your high school sports team, or the book club you've attended for years.
What is small culture?
This is something that you can both "lose" and "save", and has unique importance in high-context cultures.
This cultural identity is often the first one we think of, but it is defined by arbitrary drawn lines, and thus does not always accurately reflect an individual's norms, values, or beliefs.
What is national identity?
This principle might explain why your parents are able to interrupt you while you're speaking, but reprimand you when you interrupt them.
What is the prerogative principle?
English words like "overmorrow" and "vamoose" being obsolete today, while words like "tweet" and "facetime" are universally understood show that words have this quality. Hint: there are 3 other qualities.
What is constantly evolving?
This occurs when two cultures come into contact with one another, but are preserved as two separate cultures. A college campus might be an example of this, if its student body is made up of individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds.
What is a cultural crossing?
This is the degree to which perception of an object is influenced by the background or environment in which it appears. The different seats placed around a table, for example, might hold different meaning for a Japanese businessman and an American one.
What is field dependence?
What is race/racial identity?
A child being told by their parent that certain spaces of the home are "off-limits" and access to these spaces can only be granted by a parent might come from a family whose culture aligns with this cultural dimension.
What is high power distance?
The Louvre in Paris, the MOMA in New York, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei all do this by making sure that artifacts, objects, and icons survive the test of time.
What is preserve cultural memory?
What is the Essentialist Perspective?
In a workplace, several American liaisions have an encounter with representatives from a Latin-American company. The American liaisions expect to greet the Latin-American representatives with firm handshakes, but quickly notice that the Latin-American representatives initiate close and intimate hugs. Choosing to forego handshakes in favor of hugs would be an example of engaging in this, which is an important aspect of intercultural communication competence.
What is self-monitoring?
An immigrant from an East-Asian country to the U.S might interpret a dinner invitation from their boss as simply being polite, but an American employee might respond to the specific request as a genuine invitation. Hint: these are two different types of communication that cultures may utilize.
What is high-context v low-context communication?
According to Marx and Engels, class is defined by your relationship to the means of production. According to Weber, class is defined by these two things, one of which becomes a "feedback loop" when it comes to social mobility.
What is skill and education?
This "organized engagement with the past" might be before lunch, but after science class. In many U.S high schools, especially adept students might end up in APUSH, an acronym for the AP version of this U.S-focused class.
What is history class?