Chap 4 Sociocultural Forces

Question 0

Ethnocentricity

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Assuming one’s own culture to be superior to other cultures

Question 1

Sociocultural

Answer 1

Description of the social world through which we observe the effects of the culture

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

The relevant environment

Question 3

Monochromatic

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Having to do with linear time, sequential activities

Question 4

Polychronic

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Having to do with simultaneous activities, multi-tasking

Question 5

Confucian dynamism

Answer 5

Another term for long-term orientation

Question 6

Universalism

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Condition in which concepts apply to all

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Particularism

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Condition in which context determines what concepts apply

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Communitarianism

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Belief that the group is the beneficiary of actions

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Neutral vs Affective

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Withholding emotions vs. expressing emotions

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Specific vs Diffuse

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Life divided into public and private vs life undifferentiated

Question 11

Achievement vs Ascription

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What a person does vs who a person is

Question 12

Aesthetics

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A culture’s sense of beauty and good taste

Question 13

Material culture and artifacts

Answer 13

All human-made objects; concerned with how people make things (technology) and who makes what and why (economics)