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Acculturation
An immigrant's learning and adopting the norms and values of the new host culture.
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Anomia
Actual or perceived social isolation that is associated with anxiety or uncertainty.
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Assimilation
An immigrant's giving up the original culture identity and moving into full participation in the new culture.
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Avoidance Behavior
Aversion to being with someone from another culture; the opposite of receptivity.
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Belief System
The cognitive structure of attitudes, beliefs, values, and world view as they collectively influence one's speech and actions.
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Biculturalism
Ability to fuction in two cultures.
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Cognitive complexity
A communication theory dealing with one's ability to accurately perceive another person and to adapt communication appropriately.
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Collectivism
Cultual theory indicating a culture's emphasis on group and collectives as an organizating principle to explain cultural behavior.
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Communication apprehension
Uncertainty about communication, usually resulting in withdrawl, shyness, reticence, or high anxiety about communication with another person, in a group, in a meeting, or in a public setting.
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Communication ritual
A set of form of systematic interactions that takes place on a regular basis.
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Complexity
When innocations are perceived to be too difficult to understand or use, they are said to have high complexity. This condition usually results in lower adoption rates in a culture.
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Coping behavior
When people exhibit actions and attitudes demostrating their willingness to communicate effectively or adapt to the situation.
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Cosmopolitanism
Degree of one's orientation outside one's culture, as in how much a person might seek information from other's outside their own culture.
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Cross-cultural communication
Comparison of cultural phenomena in different cultures.
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Cultural change
Often refers to the rate of adaptability or stability of an entire culture.
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Cultural elements
Factors that make up cultual systems; the specific factors within a cultural system that are parts making the entire culture.
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Cultural history
The background of a culture, usually including its origins, territory, and variations in its changes over period of time.
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Cultural identity
A sense of a person as part of a group or culture that usually implies a variable sense of worth and competence.
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Cultural pluralism
Multiculturalism; the notion of many subcultures or microcultures existing together in a larger culture.
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Cultural stress
The amount of tension and sometimes conflict experienced in a culture when unusual amounts of change are encountered.
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Cultural theories
Explanations of culture including elements and interrelationships of elements to describe cultural systems.
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Cultural variability
When difference are encountered between people from diverse cultures, variability is said to be present.
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Culture shock
The stress associated with adapting to a new culture or unusual context.
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Dialect
A regional and ethnic variation of a language usually distinguished by pronunciation, vocabulary, and/or grammer.
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Dissonance
Conflict between two cognitive elements within a person; that is the internal conflict one feels when two beliefs or perceptions of actions are perceived to be in conflict.
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Dogmatism
Degree of rigidity; lack of openness in communication because of rigid boundaries of belief or practice and custom in a culture.
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Dual-culture marriage:
Marriage between individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds, sometimes called intercultural marriage.
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Emic
Knowledge learned from the inside, that is, the norms of culture knwon by its members.
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Empathy
In cultural terms, the behaviro demonstrating understanding, openness, and engagement with a person or group from a culture different from one's own.
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Endogamy
The cultural practice of marriage inside one's significant social unit, such as one's tribe, clan, village, ethnic group, culture, or nation.
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Etic
Knowledge learned by an outsider; that is, theoretical information about a culture developed by a researcher not a member of the culture.
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Ethics
In cultural terms, the judgment of standards of behavior that is considered right and moral in the culture.
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Ethnocentrism
The cultural attitude that one's culture or group is superior to another person's culuture or group.
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Exogamy
The cultural practice of marriage outside of one's significant social unit.
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Familism
Sense of putting family ahead of individual needs or wants.
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Functionalism
A cultural theory dealing with the "needs" expressed by a culture that help explain why that culutre has developed its customs, rules, values, etc
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Guilt cultures
Cultures that emphasize individual blame and personal responsibility for difficulty or failure.
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Hate Crime
Crime that grows out of a fear of difference and results in hostility towards those who are perceibed as different because of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
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