Part I Define the following terms found in Week One and Week Two readings: Term | Definition | Diversity | Diversity is the inclusion of different types of people of different races or cultures in a group or organization. | Ethnocentrism | Ethnocentrism is the tendency to assume that one’s culture and way of life are superior to all others. | Melting pot | Melting pot is diverse racial or ethnic groups or both, forming a new creation, a new cultural entity. | Minority group | Minority
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to EuroDisney’s poor performance during its first year of operation were: a poor understanding of the marketplace, the cultural differences between the two countries, and the different approaches to business and life. One major factor was the ethnocentrism, or the viewing of a foreign culture through the lens of your own culture, displayed by American leaders offset by French national insecurities. But, the problems spanned beyond arrogant leadership. Disney assumed people would travel from all
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Humanities 332: American Humanities Fall 2015 Professor Kim Codella PhD. Office Phone 916-691-7633 Office SOC #128 Office Hours MW 4:30PM-5:30PM TTH 4-5:30PM, online 11-12 pm Friday. codellk@crc.losrios.edu Required Text. The House made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday. This book is available in the bookstore for you and there is also a copy in the library for your use. In addition there will be weekly online readings in D2L. You must do the required reading to pass the class. Students
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response to their treatment, American Indians informed Europeans of their perspectives, they documented the alterations to their lives since the Europeans had arrived in the Americas and they engaged in battles. The European mentality of ethnocentrism lead to Native Americans expressing themselves on the European stance. Despite the range of feedback regarding the European sense of superiority, an imperative account on the American Indian mindset breached. According to “‘Your People Live Upon
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Intergroup Perception: When Ruth and I were having dinner and she mentioned the saying “may you never forget what is worth remembering, or remember what is best forgotten”, I may have been caught off guard due to my intergroup perceptions. This is where someone begins to view another as a member of their group, thus deemphasizing their unique attributes. Haptics: Haptics examines the perceptions and meanings of touch behavior. It has been researched that this behavior is often used to fulfill communication
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Krystal Rowland CRASH: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES “Sociology is the study of human behavior in society” (Kimmel and Aronson 2012). Sociologists study humans in their environments and the social interactions that occur in those environments in order to develop theories of how human behavior is shaped by groups of people and or how life is affected by those individuals. Paul Haggis’ movie Crash (Haggis 2005) contains both social and multicultural differences that we as humans experience in our
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Ingroups, Outgroups, and Their Affect on Behaviors We as humans tend to relate to those that are similar to us, and tend to alienate those that we deem as different than us. Whether it is by race, gender, culture, or religion, it is something that is almost always present in human interactions, and often times can be completely subconscious. In our textbook Interpersonal Communication by Kory Floyd, an ingroup is defined as “A group of people with whom one identifies.” An outgroup is conversely
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Eskimo tribe in the Chantrey Inlet as an “adopted daughter” of Inuttiaq and Allaq. Briggs faced many of the infamous hardships that often plague some anthropologists and ethnographers: assimilation into the culture through enculturation, combating ethnocentrism, practicing cultural relativism, and even physically adjusting to the external environment. It is also important to note that despite her frustrations, Briggs is able to gain an emic perspective of the Utkuhikhalingmuit from her unique position
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Language, Culture, and Behavior Can one’s culture affect their communication behaviors? According to an article by Margaret Cote entitled “Language Reflects Culture”, the answer is yes. She begins by discussing the cultural differences between the Saulteaux Indian language and the English language. She states that “language determines the way a person views the world” and describes how Indian people view things around them differently than English speaking people do (Cote, 1985). She bases
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Basics in Social Science, Lecture sheet-5, Culture & Society ❖ Culture is the totality of learned, socially transmitted behavior. It includes the ideas, values, customs and artifacts (as well as the sailboats, comic books and birth control devices) of groups of people. In sociological terms, culture does not refer solely to the fine arts and refined intellectual taste. It consists of all objects and ideas within a society, including ice cream cones, rock music, and slang words. Culture
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