The Study of Humanity (Essentials Ch. 1) You can’t hope to gain an understanding of your own culture until you leave it for another. Only then do the unconscious habits‚ values‚ and standards of your own culture come to your attention. Edward T. Hall (1914-2009) Beyond Culture‚ 1976) ❑ Anthropology: a broad‚ comprehensive‚ ambitious scientific discipline
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Intercultural Communication is Important For An Effective Communicator Qianya Zhuo Principle & Practice of Human Communication 02/19/2011 In order to be an effective communicator‚ it is important that people should have a solid understanding of intercultural communication. "The term ’intercultural communication ’ is often used to refer to the wide range of communication issues that inevitably arise within an organization composed of individuals from a variety of religious‚
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What is culture? * Culture is learned through experiences‚ observations‚ listening‚ talking‚ interacting with others‚ etc. * Our own cultural learning depends on the uniquely developed human capacity to use symbols‚ signs that have no necessary or natural connection to the things they stand for or signify. * Anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined culture as ideas based on cultural learning and symbols. * Sometimes culture is taught directly. (ex: parents tell their kids to say thank
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’High ’ Culture * 1.2 The Changing Concept of Culture * 1.2.1 The Origins of Culture * 1.3 Level of Abstraction * 1.4 The Artificiality of Cultural Categorization * 2 Subcultures & Countercultures * 3 Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism * 4 Theories of Culture * 4.1 The Function of Culture * 5 Cultural Change * 6 Cultural Sociology: Researching Culture * 7 References * 8 External links | Introduction[edit] The simplest way to think about culture is
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values‚ motivations‚ communication styles‚ attitudes and needs of their employees. I will discuss issues which relate to Cultural Diversity in the workplace as below: • outsourcing and off-shoring‚ • corporate culture and • Cultural relativism‚ ethnocentrism and stereotyping. This paper wills emphasis on how it affects the communication and business communication. Outsourcing involves transfer of the management or day to day implementation of an entire business function to an external service
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Alex Petrie Dr. Howell Anthropology 116 11/30/11 Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe. New York: Anchor Books‚ 1959. Number of 209. Things Fall Apart is the story of the people in an Ibo village that face destruction with the arrival of white missionaries from England. It begins by centering on Okonkwo‚ an ambitious and strong man who rose to great standing despite his shameful father‚ in order to give background to the customs of the area and the thoughts behind his actions. It then follows
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culture beliefs. Moral relativity is where not everything may be acceptable by other societies universally. So we try and speak up to these cultures about their practices and hope to change their ways to make them morally acceptable. Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism means that we go to study a cultural and their languages but without imposing on their ways of their language in anyway or form. Just observing. Cultural Relativity is studying another culture from its point of view without imposing
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CHAPTER 2-Anthropology Physical Anthropology What is culture? (Margaret Mead) Characteristics of culture Cultural Anthropology- know one culture covered during the presentations Cultural Anthropology -Five schools of thought Cultural Relativism and Cultural Evolutionism- pg.28 Functional Theory- pg.28 - q. 1 on page 31 Cultural Materialism- pg. 29 q. 3 on page 31 Feminist Anthropology- pg. 30 q. 1 on page 31 Postmodernism -pg. 31 q. 2 on page 31 Primatology Natural selection-Darwin
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CHAP 1 – What is Anthropology 1. Which of the following is not true about Franz Boas? A. He is considered the Founding Father of American Anthropology B. He collected anthropological data on the Inuit (Eskimos) C. He opened the first anthropology department in the U.S. at Columbia University. D. He was a German-born‚ Jewish person until the Hitler regime E. Based on his anthropological data‚ Boas determined that there was no such thing as “race” and therefore no basis for concepts
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Martha Nussbaum formulated a list of capabilities meant to measure the autonomy and quality of life of a people‚ in particular women of non-western nations. She gives perspective on how her capabilities approach rejects cultural relativism‚ and unnecessary ethnocentrism when dealing with non-western cultures‚ creating feminism more in line with her moral universalist views. What is interesting about Nussbaum’s capabilities approach is its applications in the western world as well. There are many
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