How Well Do You Know About Term Culture and Its Categorization Flashcards

How well do you understand the term culture and its categorization? These flashcards can help. Culture is based on shared attitudes, beliefs, and customs and the group’s vision, values, norms, and symbols. Pondering about other terms of their group members is known as social categorization. It is being able to decipher physical objects and being able to tell what kind of object it represents the process of grouping things into categories. Read and study these flashcards to understand.How well do you understand the term culture and its categorization? These flashcards can help. Culture is based on shared attitudes, beliefs, and customs and the group’s vision, values, norms, and symbols. Pondering about other terms of their group members is known as social categorization. It is being able to decipher physical objects and being able to tell what kind of object it represents the process of grouping things into categories. Read and study these flashcards to understand.

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Culture
The relatively specialized elements of the lifestyle of a group of people that are passed on from one generation to the next through communication, not through genes.
Enculturation
The process by which culture is transmitted from one generation to another.
Acculturation
  • the process by which your culture is modified or changed through contact with or exposure to another culture.
Ethnic identity
  • a commitment to the beliefs and philosophy of your culture; the degree to which you identify your cultural group
The relevance of culture
Demographic changes, increased sensitivity to cultural differences, economic interdependency, advances in communication technology, communication competence is specific to a culture.
High context culture
A culture in which much of the information in communication messages is left implied; it’s “understood”- meaning is considered to be in the context or in the person rather than explicitly coded in verbal messages. Collectivist cultures generally have this trait. (ex. Japan, Korea, Mexico)- spend a lot more time getting to know each other and place great emphasis on relationships and oral agreements.
Low Context Culture
A culture in which most of the information in communication is explicitly stated in verbal message rather than being left implied or assumed to be “understood”. Individualist cultures have this trait. (ex. Germany, US)- in formal transactions things are stated in a written contract- less emphasis on personal information
Feminine culture
  • a culture in which both men and women are encouraged to be modest, oriented in maintaining the quality of life, and tender.
Masculine culture
A culture in which men are viewed as assertive, oriented to material success, and strong; women on the other hand are viewed as modest, focused on the quality of life, and tender. Emphasizes success, ambition, assertiveness and competition.
Individualist culture
Cultural orientation that gives greater importance to individuals than to the groups goals and preferences.
Collectivist culture
Cultural orientation in which the groups goals rather than the individuals are given greater importance and in which, for example, benevolence, tradition, and conformity are given special emphasis
Principles of Intercultural Communication
Educate yourself, reduce uncertainty, recognize differences, confront stereotypes, adjust your communication and reduce your ethnocentrism.
Ethnocentrism
The tendency to see others and their behaviors through your own cultural filters, often as distortions of our own behaviors; the tendency to evaluate the values and beliefs of your own culture more positively than those of others.