CMN 10Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Masculinity, Collectivism, Ethnocentrism
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Demographic imperative: 80% immigrants are from latin america & asia. Economic imperative: globalization: business expanding overseas. Self-awareness imperative: helps raise awareness of self and culture, ethnocentrism: assume that our way is the best way or only way, helps bring awareness of ethnocentrism. Culture: learned patterns of perception, values, and behaviors, shared by a group of people that are dynamic and heterogenous. We are not born with cultural knowledge, we acquire them. Cultural patterns are shared: developed through interactions. Def: the degree to which members of a culture are integrated into groups. Cultural patterns: provide systematic structure to help identify & examine reoccurring values. Collectivistic: people integrated into strong, cohesive in-gorups, group goals prevail over individual goals. Dominant values of a culture may not be shared by all individuals within that culture. The extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organization within a country expect & accept that power is distributed unequally.
