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- Theory
- explanation
- culture
- learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, norms, and social practices, which affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people
- iceberg metaphor
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behaviors
social practices
norms
values
beliefs - cultural imperialism
- one culture domination another by products and associated values
- emic perspective
- understand people from their point of view
- etic perspective
- understand by comparing
- social scientific
- quantitative, describe and predict
- interpretive
- qualitative, describe (not predict)
- critical
- analysis, change by consciousness
- phonetics
- word sounds
- semantics
- word meanings
- pragmatics
- constructions of meanings
- syntactics
- structure grammar and language
- morphology
- implied context
- whorf-sapir hypothesis
- language affects the perceptions of reality of its speakers
- primary affect displays
- emotions that all cultures can perceive
- polychronic time
- when staying on schedule isnt a priority
- vocalics
- rate, pitch
- antifactual code system
- assecories
- emblems
- non verbal body movements (the finger)
- regulations
- head nods, eye contact
- adaptors
- nonverbal body movements (fidgeting)
- monochronic
- people stick to schedules
- illustrators
- hand motions in stories (fish was this big)
- predictive uncertainty
- inability to predict what someone will say or do
- explanatory uncertainty
- inability to explain why someone acts as they do
- Berry's Model: Seperation
- maintain original culture, no connection to new culture
- Berry's Model: Marginalization
- losing one culture and not gaining a new one
- Berry's Model: Assimilation
- lose original culture but not fully gain new one
- Berry's Model: Integration
- maintain both new and old culture