What Are the Essential Cultural Value Patterns

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Chapter 3

• What Are the Essential Cultural Value Patterns?
• HCOM 320

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VALUES

• Functions of Cultural values
• Analysis
• Identity
• Explanatory
• Boundary-regulation
• Adaptation

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Analysis of value dimensions

• Sense of self
• Individualism
• Collectivism
• Power
• Uncertainty
• Sex roles

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TIME

• Future-oriented time sense
• Present-oriented time sense
• Past-oriented time sense

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SPACEEdward Halls space

• Proxemics (study of space)
• US intimate 0-18 personal 18-4
• Social 4-12 and public exceeds 12
• European 20 Latin Americans 14-15 Saudis
  9-10
• High spatial privacy
• Low spatial privacy

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LOCUS OF CONTROL

• Locus of control
• Control vs. yielding
• Internal
• Free will, individual motivation, personal
  effort, personal responsibility
• External
• Karma, determinism, fate, external forces shaping
  persons life events

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TOOLKIT RECAPS CHECKPOINTS

• Entering a culture, practice observation,
  interpretations of ethnocentric evaluation
• Observe verbal and NVC signals
• Describe specific behaviors
• Generate multiple interpretations of the
  behaviors
• Suspend ethnocentric evaluations perform
  open-ended evaluations
• Observe a wide range before generalizations