Chapter 13 Review Questions

  1. What is culture?
  2. What are some of the ways cultures differ?
  3. 3 What is a worldview?
  4. What are the characteristics of America's worldview?
  5. What is effort-optimism?
  6. How do American cultural values impact on communication style?
  7. What are horizontal and vertical individualism? What are horizontal and vertical collectivism?
  8. What does the study by Sun and Starosta (2006) illustrate? 
  9. What is AAVE? How do theorists account for its structure?
  10. How can difference in key lead to misunderstandings and misperceptions between speakers of AE and AAVE?
  11. What is playing the dozens or sounding? What social work does it accomplish?
  12. What are some of the characteristics of the culture of poverty?
  13. What is cross-cultural communication? Why is it often difficult? What are three barriers to effective cross-cultural communication?
  14. What are the defining characteristics of prejudice? What kinds of biased models hold it in place?
  15. How are prejudices communicated?
  16. What is ethnocentrism?
  17. Why is assumed similarity a barrier to cross-cultural communication?
  18. What was the Colonial period like in terms of material culture and social structure? What were interpersonal relationships like in this period?
  19. What was the Early Industrial period like? What were interpersonal relationships like in this time?
  20. What are characteristics of the Modern period? How are these related to interpersonal communication?
  21. What are some ways to adapt to international differences?
  22. What are some ways to increase co-cultural understanding?
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