Chapter 3 Flashcards
Title of Chapter 3
Emphasizing Informal Institutions: Cultures, Ethics, and Norms
informal institution
Institutions represented by cultures, ethics, and norms
ethnocentrism
A self-centered mentality by a group of people who perceive their own culture, ethics, and norms as natural, rational, and morally right
culture
The collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another
lingua franca
The dominance of one language as a global business language
context
The underlying background upon which interaction takes place
low-context culture
A culture in which communication is usually taken at face value without much reliance on unspoken context
high-context culture
A culture in which communication relies a lot on the underlying unspoken context, which is as important as the words used
cluster
Countries that share similar cultures together
civilization
The highest cultural grouping of people and the broadest level of cultural identity people have
power distance
The extent to which less powerful members within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally
individualism
The perspective that the identity of an individual is fundamentally his or her own
collectivism
The idea that the identity of an individual is primarily based on the identity of his or her collective group
masculinity
A relatively strong form of societal-level sex-role differentiation whereby men tend to have occupations that reward assertiveness and women tend to work in caring professions
femininity
A relatively weak form of societal-level sex-role differentiation whereby more women occupy positions that reward assertiveness and more men work in caring professions
