Comm105A Unit 2
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- is the social construction of masculinity and femininity within a culture.
- Gender
- is a culture in which much of the information in communication is in the context or in the person rather than explicitly coded in the verbal messages.
- High-Context Culture
- is a culture in which there is a great difference in power between groups; for example, between teachers and students or managers and workers.
- High-Power-Distance Cultures
- is a culture in which the individual’s goal and preferences are given greater importance than the group is.
- Individualist Culture
- is a culture in which most of the information in communication is explicitly stated in the verbal messages. Individualist cultures are usually .. cultures.
- Low-Context Culture
- is a culture in which there is little difference in power between groups; for example, between doctors and patients or men and women.
- Low-Power-Distance Cultures
- is the aggressiveness, material success, and strength that males are valued.
- Masculine Culture
- Sex Stereotype
- is a fixed impression towards the same and/or opposite sex.
- is the processes by which a person’s culture is modified or changed through contact with or exposure to another culture.
- Acculturation
- is the uncertainty of meaning; the possibility of interpreting a message in more than one way, is not feeling threatened by unknown situations; uncertainty would be a normal part of life.
- Ambiguity Ambiguity Tolerance
- is a culture in which the group’s goals are given greater importance than the individual’s and in which; for example, benevolence, tradition, and conformity are given special emphasis.
- Collectivist Culture
- Someone can increase their ..by learning about different cultures, recognizing and facing your won fears of intercultural interaction, recognizing differences between yourself and others, and becoming conscious of the cultural rules and customs of other c
- cultural sensitivity
- is the process by which culture is transmitted from one generation to another.
- Enculturation
- is the commitment to the beliefs and philosophy of your culture.
- Ethnic Identity
- is the tendency to see others and their behaviors through our won cultural filters, often as distortions of our own behaviors; the tendency to evaluate the values and beliefs of our own culture more positively than those of another culture.
- Ethnocentrism
- is maintaining a positive public self-image in the minds of others.
- Face-Saving
- is the modesty, quality of life, and tenderness that women are valued.
- Feminine Culture