Exam 3: Culture, Communication, Context, and Power

A culture that values being productive and keeping busy tends to have a _____ orientation to human activity.

Preferred personality refers to the importance or meaning that most members of a cultural group attach to a communication activity.

White Americans think that there is greater equality between races than do African Americans. This difference between cultural groups illustrates that _____.

Identify, discuss, and provide examples of the three possible relationships between humans and nature according to Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck.

Identify and discuss two ways in which communication reinforces culture.

Kyle doesn't understand why people in some countries don't make greater use of agricultural technology and why, if they have large populations, more people don't practice birth control. Kyle probably lives in a society with a _____ orientation.

People with a long-term value orientation are concerned with possessing the truth, focusing on quick results in endeavors, and recognizing social pressure to conform.

Interpretive scholars view culture as shared and learned and tend to focus on the:

Compare and contrast the individualist and the collectivist orientations toward relationships between humans.

The most common form of activity in the United States seems to involve a "doing" orientation.

The ways in which a culture judges good or bad, or right or wrong are often determined by _____.

People in collectivist societies tend to value direct communication and active conflict resolution styles in order to maintain the group.

Many people in Central America have a preference for gender-specific roles (e.g., men should be primary bread winners and women are responsible for the family). They probably have a(n) _____ value orientation.

_____ is a specialized area of study whereby interpretive scholars analyze verbal and nonverbal activities that have symbolic significance for the members of cultural groups to understand the rules and patterns followed by the groups.

A research method where writers examine their own life experiences to discover broader cultural insights is known as:

Carmen would rather spend time interacting and relaxing with friends than working. In fact, she recently turned down a promotion because it would mean she would see her family and friends less. Carmen probably grew up in a culture with a _____ value orientation toward human activity.

Jeff accidentally insulted the parents of his roommate Mohammed by putting his feet up on the desk when they were visiting their dorm room. Jeff's behavior (and subsequent apology) illustrates that communication can be _____.

Researchers Florence Kluckhohn and Fred Strodtbeck emphasized the centrality of cultural values in understanding cultural groups.

A culture whose members believe that less hierarchy is better and that power should be used only for legitimate purposes tends to have a low power distance orientation.

In the context of the role of perception in cultural patterns, in contrast to Asians, North European cultural groups: