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Dutch researcher, Fons Trompenaars, recommends that when individuals from achievement cultures do business in ascription cultures, they should: A. make sure that their group has sufficient data to convince the other group that they are proficient. B. make sure that their group has knowledgeable people who can impress the other side.
Tylor defined culture as “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.”1 His definition of culture is still used frequently today and remains the foundation of the culture concept in anthropology.
According to F. Elashmawi and Philip R. Harris, match the regions (in the left column) with the cultural values they prioritize (in the right column). Which of the following refers to a current trend in the Japanese value system?
The major elements of culture are symbols, language, norms, values, and artifacts.
Customs and traditions (rules for a society: laws, dress, food, etc.) Arts and Literature (values taught through the arts: literature, dance, music, art, etc.) Economic systems (refers to: How people use resources. 3 basic economic questions: what goods/services should be produced?
DEFINE: Culture is the art, customs, achievements, and the way people interact with others of a particular community, country, religious, or other social group.
The elements of culture definition are based on five main elements: values and beliefs, norms, symbols, language, and rituals.
There are seven elements, or parts, of a single culture. They are social organization, customs, religion, language, government, economy, and arts. Within this larger culture are subcultures, cultures that are not large enough to encompass an entire society, but still belong within the culture of that society.
Q.Which of the following is not a characteristics of culture?B.culture is socialC.culture is transmissiveD.culture is gratifyingAnswer» a. culture is inborn1 more row
Our cultures are different because our histories, location and external influence. It includes the language we speak, food we eat, clothes we wear, etc.
Culture embodies the ideas and norms of a group. It is sum-total of the ideal patterns and norms of behaviour of a group. Culture consists of the intellectual, artistic and social ideals and institutions which the members of the society profess and to which they strive to confirm.
Cultural Studies is the study of how a society creates and shares meaning.
Q.The following is not a component of cultureB.Beliefs.C.Education.D.Life expectancy.Answer» d. Life expectancy.1 more row
Government forms are not an element of culture. Culture is an ever-changing set of beliefs and customs shared by a specific society or group of people.
The major elements of culture are material culture, language, aesthetics, education, religion, attitudes and values and social organisation.
a pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self-definitions, norms, roles, and values that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in a defined geographical region. enculturation. process by which a person learns the norms, values, and behaviors of a culture similar to socialization. acculturation.
subcultures. members of racial and ethnic minorities, people of indigenous or aboriginal heritage; professions such as nursing, people of different socioeconomic levels; culture is determined by self-identification and most people identify with a mix of cultures. changing and adapting.
desire to understand people who are different from yourself provides the means for overcoming ones biases and their effect upon care; desire leads to knowledge. -skills are acquired by practice in communication. respect and empathy. are attitudes that demonstrate to the patient that concerns are valued and understood.
culture affects family dynamics in terms of ways in which people cope with stress, the manner in which sick family members receive care, and the beliefs about sharing information with outsiders about a family members illness. communication.
culture has been changing as people adapt to environmental and technical innovations and in response to globalization and influences of diverse cultural groups; migration processes result in ongoing encounters between individuals of different cultures, with subsequent changes in both groups or acculturation.
is a Latino-Carribean culture-bound syndrome that usually occurs in response to a specific stressor and is characterized by disassociation or trance-like states, crying, uncontrollable spasms, trembling or shouting. shenjing shuairuo.
process by which a person gives up their original identity and develops a new cultural identity by becoming absorbed into the more dominant cultural group; dominant group imposes their values on the minority group with the assumption that the less dominant group must change.
An achievement culture is a culture in which status is attributed based on who or what a person is. FALSE. In the context of Dutch researcher, Fons Trompenaars's relationship orientations, people in high-communitarianism societies stress personal and individual matters. FALSE.
A neutral culture is one in which emotions are held in check. TRUE. In the context of Dutch researcher, Fons Trompenaars's relationship orientations, cultures with high universalism focus more on relationships and trust than on formal rules.