ARBUS301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blue-Collar Worker, Cultural Literacy, Acculturation
16 Dec 2019
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Culture: set of values, norms, beliefs, rules, and institutions held by a specific group of people . Cross-cultural risk: a situation or event where a cultural miscommunication puts some human value at stake. It arises in environments characterized by unfamiliar languages and unique value systems, beliefs, and behaviors. Ethnocentricity: belief that one"s own ethnic group or culture is superior to that of others. Cultural literacy: detailed knowledge of a culture that enables a person to function happily and effectively within it. It is a collective phenomenon of shared values and meanings: not inherited it derives from the social environment. We are not born with a shared set of values and beliefs; we acquire them as we grow up. Socialization: the process of learning the rules and behavioral patterns appropriate to one"s society. Acculturation: the process of adjusting and adapting to a culture other than one"s own; commonly experienced by expatriate workers.
