Cross Cultural Relations
Autor: Renaud Morin • April 18, 2016 • Business Plan • 899 Words (4 Pages) • 847 Views
Introduction to Cross Cultural relations
Mid Term Review Sheet
Exam date: Wed. March 16, 2016
The exam will be multiple choice and matching.
Terms and ideas to study:
What is culture? Culture includes the values, beliefs, behaviors, and material objects that,
together, form a people’s way of life.
What is language?A set of symbols that expresses ideas and allows people to think and communicate with each other.
What is attitude towards time?
What are taboos?A taboo is an activity that is forbidden or sacred based on religious beliefs or morals.
What is status of age?
What are values? Groups, societies, or cultures have values that are largely shared by their members. The values identify those objects, conditions or characteristics that members of
the society consider important; that is, valuable.
What are norms? rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members.
What is worldview? The fundamental orientation of an individual or society which includes a broad philosophy of existential and normative claims and assumptions about life.
What are social roles? A set of connected behaviors, rights and obligations as conceptualized by actors in a social situation. Social roles include appropriate and permitted forms of
behavior guided by social norms.
What are symbols? Something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention.
What are artifacts? Any object made or modified by a human.
What is enculturation? How culture is learned
What are mores? norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance
What are folkways? popular norms; norms that are routine and casual in the broader population.
What is social control? various means by which members of society encourage conformity to norms.
What is high culture? refers to people who the socially elite of society. Those going to the opera and attending symposiums.
What is popular culture? - is the cultural patterns that are widespread among society’s population.
Who was Georg Simmel? German sociologist and philosopher, urban sociology
Define ethnocentrism. Provide an example of ethnocentric behaviour. Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture.
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