Perception and
Intercultural
Intercultural
True or False:
Spencer-Oatey asserted that social judgements help create culture.
What is false.
This is defined as: the degree to which persons within a society are integrated into groups.
What is individualism-collectivism
Name and define Hofstede's Four Original Value Dimensions:
1. Individualism and Collectivism
2. Power and Distance from/to Power
3. Uncertainty and Uncertainty Avoidance
4. Masculine and Feminine Cultures
This creates and reinforces core values in every known culture through rights, rituals, tattoos, ceremonies, social control, conflict resolution, emotional support, reinforcement of group solidarity, and explanations of the unexplainable.
What is Religion
(please note: this question and answer did not say religion is social control. Religion helps create social control with our basic desires, wants, actions, and needs.)
What are barriers
This is the process of experiencing the world and making sense out of what you experience
What is Perception
This is the extent to which less powerful persons in societies, organizations, or countries, accept and expect unequal treatment or the distribution of power as well as treatment.
What is Power-Distance.
True or False: A low-power distance means that you could never expect to ride in the same elevator or stand in the same cafe line with President Marshall or Vice President Hendricks.
What is False. Low-power Distance means that you have or can gain opportunities to access persons in high positions of power.
This is why both have open office hours for you, scholar :)
True or False:
Some cultures have a mix of both high and low context communication.
What is true
True or False: Shhhh! Silence is golden, accepted, warranted, wanted, and rewarded in low-context cultures.
What is false.
This is the process of selecting, organizing, interpreting, and negotiating your observations of other people.
What is interpersonal perception?
These are the stages of perception (in order)
What are selection, organization, interpretation, and negotiation
This concept (a) Describes the effects of societal culture on values, and (b) Examines culture and value effects of/on behavior.
What are Hofstede's Four Original Value Dimensions.
Deep Structures are defined as:
Deep structures: (What are) the basic elements of every culture which forms the roots, basic needs, essential components of contemporary life. This includes language.
This key term defined means: a learned system of knowledge, behavior, attitudes, beliefs, values, and norms shared by a group of people.
What is culture.
This is the tendency to put ourselves in situations that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors.
What is selective exposure?
High Context Cultures are known by:
1. A high use of internalized understanding of the situation as well as the reason for the conversation, and more use of nonverbal's to expressed meaning or understand minute.
2. Message meanings are implicit and/or indirect. Understanding this message is part of internalized attitudes, beliefs, values, and/or social norms and practices of the culture.
3. Orientation to time is relaxed and less rigid. Less conversation is more time.
4. Collectivism. Defined as a cultural dimension by Hofstede. Life is lived/maintained for the good of the family/group rather than largely prioritizing oneself.
This is defined as the extent to which less powerful person in society, organizations, or countries except and expect unequal treatment or the distribution of power as well as treatment.
What is power-distance
The perceptions you use to interpret behavior are called _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. (11-letters)
What are Impressions.
Check out Erving Goffman sometime - he was all over impressions. :)
This key term defined means: individual perceptions or perceptions by a culture or group of people about key beliefs an issues such as death, religion, and the meaning of life, which influences interactions with others
What is Worldview.
Observing a small sample of someone's behavior and then making a generalization about what the person is like based on that sample is also known as:
What is thin-slicing?
Low-Context Cultures are known by:
1. Higher level of spoken messages where more information is verbally shared.
2. Majority of communication is explicit and direct.
3. Orientation to time is rigid with consequences for going against the clock.
4. It takes more time to understand spoken messages in this call and response conversation style.
5. Individualistic. The focus is on prioritizing oneself.
This is defined as the extent of a society’s acceptable tolerance for ambiguity.
What is Uncertainty-Avoidance
Define Second-order Reality and provide an example.
What is perceiving things as unified wholes that are fundamentally different from the sum of their parts.
Example: if a friend gives you the side-eye (a first-order reality), your second-order interpretation might be that they are angry with you. Your second-order reality is a subjective meaning that may not reflect their actual thoughts.
This is also known as a fallacy of causation.
FINAL JEOPARDY:
This key term defined means: a belief that your cultural traditions, race, gender, ideologies and assumptions are superior / more correct / more normal than others.
What is ethnocentrism