Exam 3: Differences in Culture

Generally,folkways are actions of little moral significance.

Scholars are divided in their assessment of the relationship between religious and ethical systems and business practice in a society.

One of the ways in which the new generation of Japanese workers differs from traditional Japanese workers is that they:

In some societies,the individual is the basic building block of social organization,while the group has primacy in others.Which of these social dimensions is more conducive to business and economy?

Making a circle with the thumb and the forefinger is a friendly gesture in the United States,but it is a vulgar sexual invitation in Greece and Turkey.Similarly,while most Americans and Europeans use the thumbs-up gesture to indicate that "it's all right," in Greece the gesture is obscene.These instances reflect that:

Which of the following countries stands out as having both low uncertainty avoidance and low masculinity?

Individuals born into a stratum toward the top of the social hierarchy tend to have worse life chances than those born into a stratum toward the bottom of the hierarchy.

Muslim countries are likely to be receptive to international businesses as long as those businesses:

A class system is closed system of stratification in which social position is determined by the family into which a person is born,and change in that position is usually not possible during an individual's lifetime.

Siddhartha Gautama,the founder of Buddhism,came to be known as the Buddha which means:

In societies where _____ was emphasized,the ties between individuals were tight and everyone was supposed to look after the interests of his or her group.

_____ means an understanding of how cultural differences across and within nations can affect the way business is practiced.

Chinese is the mother tongue of the largest number of people,but English is the most widely spoken language in the world.This indicates that:

_____________ values,identified by the World Values Survey,tend to stress that economic and physical security are more important than self-expression.

One of the downsides to the emphasis on individualism is that:

When primacy of the group over the individual is stressed,cooperation is driven by the need to:

Hofstede's fifth dimension of _____ captures attitudes toward time,persistence,ordering by status,protection of face,respect for tradition,and reciprocation of gifts and favors.

Strong identification with the group creates pressures for mutual self-help.

According to Buddhism,suffering arises from people's desires for material pleasures.

Although all societies are stratified to some degree,they differ in two related ways.First,they differ from each other with regard to the degree of mobility between social strata;second,they differ with regard to: