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| Low-Context Communication Style |
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| Verbally precise, direct, and explicit method of communication usually found in individualistic cultures |
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| High-Context Communication Style |
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| Indirect verbal expression; significant information is derived from contextual cues, such as relationships, situations, setting, and time; typically found in collectivist cultures |
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| Cultural variations in the acceptability of unequal distribution of power in relationships, institutions, and organizations |
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| Culture whose people value relatively equal power sharing and discourage attention to status differences and ranking in society |
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| Cultures with a relatively strong emphasis on maintaining power differences |
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| The notion that one's own culture is superior to any other. It is the idea that other culture should be meausred by the degree to which they live up to one's own cultural standards |
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| The view that cultures are merely different, not deficient, and each culture's norms and practices should be assessed only from the perspective of the culture itself, not by standards embraced by another culture |
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| Social-intellectural movement that promotes the value of diversity as a core principle and insists that all cultural groups be treated with respect and as equals |
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| Thinking about ones communication with others and persistently working to improve it |
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| Uncertainty Reduction Theory |
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| Posits that when strangers first meet, their principal goal is to reduce uncertainty and to increase predictability |
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| The anxiety that comes from the unfamiliarity of new cultural surroundings, rules, norms, and practices and the attempt to adapt to thse new circumstances |
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| Differences that separate people |
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| Similarities that connect us to others |
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| The set of expectations defined by each culture that specifies what is appropriate behavior for men and women ( what is considered "masculine" or "feminine") |
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| Masculine-Feminine Dimension |
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| Degree to which a culture expects either rigid adherence to gender role expectations or is flexible about gender role expectations |
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| A culture that exhibits stereotypic masculine traits such as male dominance, ambitiousness, assertiveness, competitiveness, and drive for achievement |
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| A culture that exhibits stereotypic feminine traits such affection, nurturance, sensitivity, compassion, and emotional expressiveness |
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| Biological differences between males and females |
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| Socially constructed learned feminine and masculine role chracteristics and behavior derived from communicating with others |
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| Gender differences hypothesis |
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| View that men and women communicate in vastly divergent ways |
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| Having sexual intercourse when you don't want to, but your partner does, in circumstances in which no duress or coercion is involved |
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| Having difficulty and fears about expressing one's feelings and difficulty finding words to express basic emotions |
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| Gender Similarities Hypothesis |
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| View that men and women communicate in mostly similar ways |
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