LIR 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Geert Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars, Formaldehyde

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Nurture: learned behaviour (traditional anthropologists and sociologists, behaviour is learned/taught by nurture in which you learn through the environment. Function: types, contexts, roles (functionalists like mccroskey) Blend of all three with emphasis on intention, interpretation and evolution (semiotic, linguistic anthropologists. Germans smile less than people from the united states, but this doesn"t mean that. It does mean that people from germany and the. United states have different ideas of when a smile is appropriate. I from germany and the united states, the people from the. United states complained that the germans were cool and aloof; the germans complained that the people from the united states were excessively cheerful and hid true feelings (hall & hall, 1990). In photographs, u. s. wives are usually shown smiling at their husbands; japanese wives are rarely shown smiling. U. s. clerks greet strangers with a smile; japanese clerks must learn to do so. On the other hand, to maintain reserve, it is said that the.

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