INTC 1F90 Lecture : 08 - Situation and Setting.docx

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14 Apr 2012

School

Brock University

Department

Intercultural Studies

Course

INTC 1F90

Professor

Jeff Reichheld

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Similar situations give rise to similar results. Possible social roles that can arise from this situation are: Rules of interaction: responses expected in the situation. Manners: social practices intended to facilitate interaction: unwritten rules of behaviour, receive social, but not legal censure. Like manners, there are also appropriate actions that we perform in most situations: Opening: breaking the silence: some sort of salutation indicates willingness to talk. Excuse me, but may i speak to you about . Discussion: after conversation is established, real topic can be addressed. Closing: must be ended appropriately: valid reason (from a set repertoire) must be given for breaking off. The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. The world is seeing a significant shift in the way that cultures interact. Lustig and koester (2010) focus on three major areas of intercultural contact that we should be aware of:

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2. Worn out by the voluminous assignments in their Law and Economics class, a group of students agree to share the load. They promise to cooperate in preparing cases, working problem sets and sharing notes. Each agrees to work for 4 hours per week. They think that this will save everyone a total of 3 hours per week. That is, without the cooperation they would expect to work 7 hours per week.

Here are their estimates of the payoffs in the situations that may occur.

Work Payoff (7-work)

Suckee (use work of others and contribute nothing) 2 hours

Cooperative equilibrium (everyone works and shares) 4 hours

Non-cooperative equilibrium (no sharing) 7 hours

Sucker (work and share but receive nothing) 8 hours

Each party would like to work as few hours as possible.

I. Suppose they interact only once.

a. What is the extra payoff to cheating on the cooperative agreement?

b. What is the best response to the expectation that all others will cooperate?

c. What is the best response to the expectation that all others will not copperate?

d. What is the outcome of this game?

II. Now suppose that there is repeated interaction throughout the semester. There are exactly 6 weeks left in the semester.

a. Explain the trigger strategy idea.

b. Will it work?

c. Why not?

III. Now suppose that the interaction lasts indefinitely with a probability equal to .8 that any member may leave due to sickness or other unpredictable reasons.

a. Explain how they can achieve a cooperative equilibrium.

b. Show that cooperation is the best response to cooperation.

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