CHAPTER 5 HCOM 320

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CHAPTER 5HCOM 320

• What Is Culture Shock?
• Stressful transitional period moving from a
  familiar to unfamiliar environment.

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CULTURAL SHOCK(Oberg, 1960)

• Sense of identity loss deprivation
• Identity strain due to psychological adaptation
• Identity rejection/new culture
• Identity confusion/ones role
• Identity powerlessness/not coping with new
  environment

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POLLBAFA BAFAIdentify Feelings

• Awkward
• Disoriented
• Excited
• Embarrassed
• Alive
• Insecure
• Challenged

• Bizarre
• Energized
• Exhausted
• Surprised
• Anxious
• Intense
• Rewarded

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ABCs of Cultural Shock

• Affectively anxiety, bewilderment, confusion,
  disorientation, etc.
• Behaviorally norms and rules confusion
• Cognitively lack competence to interpret or
  explain bizarre behaviors

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PROS CONSNegative implicationsPositive
effects
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Managing culture shock

• Motivational orientation
• Personal expectations
• Cultural distance
• Sociocultural adjustment
• Psychological adjustment
• Personality attributes

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U-curve Adjustment Model

• Initial adjustment
• Optimistic or elation phrase
• Crisis
• Overwhelmed by own incompetence
• Regained adjustment
• Settling-in phrase effective coping

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W-shaped Adjustment Model

• Honeymoon stage
• Hostility stage
• Humorous stage
• In-sync adjustment stage
• Ambivalence stage
• Reentry culture shock stage
• Re-socialization stage

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Reentry culture shock

• Reentry culture shock
• Identity change idealized images reintegrating
  family friends demand for role conformity
• Resocialization
• Do not recognize new skills
• Alienated returnees
• Proactive returnees