Chapter 6 Vocabulary Flashcards
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Co-Cultures
Groups of people living within a dominant culture but exhibiting communication that is sufficiently different to distinguish them from the dominant culture.
Collectivist Culture
Emphasizes community, collaboration, shared interest, harmony, the public good, and avoiding embarrassment.
Culture
The values, attitudes, beliefs, orientations, and underlying assumptions prevalent among people in a society.
Culture Shock
The psychological discomfort you may feel when you attempt to adjust to a new cultural situation.
Dominant Culture
The attitudes, values, beliefs, and customs that the majority of people in a society hold in common.
Egocentricity
A selfish interest in one own’s needs, to the exclusion of everything else.
Ethnicity
A classification of people based on combinations of shared characteristics such as nationality, geographic origin, language, religion, ancestral customs, and tradition.
Ethnocentrism
The belief that one’s own culture is superior to others.
Feminine Culture
A culture in which people, regardless of sex, are expected to assume a variety of roles based on the circumstances and their own choices.
Flexibility
The ability to adjust your communication to fit the other person and the situation.
High Power-Distance
The cultural belief that inequalities in power, status, and rank are “natural” and that these differences should be acknowledged and accentuated.
High Uncertainty-Avoidance Cultures
Cultures characterized by a low tolerance for, and a high need to control, unpredictable people, relationships, or events.
Individualistic Culture
Emphasizes personal rights and responsibilities, privacy, voicing one’s opinion, freedom, innovation, and self-expression.
Intercultural Communication
Interactions that occur between people whose cultural assumptions are so different that the communication between them is altered.
Intercultural Empathy
Imaginatively placing yourself in the dissimilar other person’s cultural world to attempt to experience what he or she is experiencing.
Low-Power Distance
The cultural belief that inequalities in power, status, and rank should be underplayed and muted.
Low Uncertainty-Avoidance Cultures
Cultures characterized by greater acceptance of, and less need to control, unpredictable people, relationships, or events.
Masculine Culture
A culture in which people are expected to adhere to traditional sex roles.
Prejudice
A rigid attitude based on group membership.
Religion
A system of beliefs shared by a group and that supplies the group with an entity(ies) for devotion, rituals for worship, and a code of ethics.
Social Class
An indicator of a person’s position in a social hierarchy, as determined by income, education, occupation, and social habits.
Stereotypes
Attributions that cover up individual differences and ascribe certain characteristics to a group of people.
Altruism
A display of genuine and unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
