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Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 4hrs 30mins
Symbolic interaction occurs at which level
Macro
Meso
Micro
Society is like an organism and people are its cells
Functionalism
Symbolic interaction
Conflict theory
Mass-incarceration is profitable for someone, at the expense of communities
Functionalism
Symbolic interaction
Conflict theory
Who was known as the father of sociology?
Émile Durkheim
Auguste Comte
Max Weber
Which of the following is considered poor etiquette in Japan?
Offering a gift with two hands
Placing your chopsticks upright in your food
Taking off your shoes before entering someone's home
The ability to face and adjust or adapt to new situations in a culture that is different from the individual's own culture
Intercultural resistibility
Intercultural consciousness
Ethnocentrism
When communicating with people who don't speak your language as their first language what is the best strategy?
Speak more slowly and loudly than usual to avoid any misunderstanding
Speak naturally but make sure you avoid using colloquial language, jargon and idioms that may be difficult to understand
Identify someone who speaks the language of the person you are interacting with and get them to translate for you
What do you understand by ethnocentrism?
Operating in an environment where everyone is from the same culture
Experience your own and other cultures as relative to the context
Judging people from another culture only by the values and standards of your own culture
In Dubai (in the United Arab Emirates)...
Your meeting may be interrupted for prayer
The exchange of business cards is simultaneous: you offer yours with your right hand and receive that of the other with your left hand
Coffee is served at the beginning of the meeting
A factor that leaves one with no choice but to leave one's current home (especially parental home), country, region, organization, or religion
Distribution
Pull factor
Push factor
Main reason to migrate
Conflict
Employment opportunities
Family reunification
Self-esteem...
Refers to global feelings about oneself
Refers to global overall judgments about oneself
Is tied to a specific domain
Stereotype threat...
Refers to global judgements about oneself.
Refers to feelings of competence within a specific domain.
Is a psychological threat that arises when one is in a situation or doing something for which a negative stereotype about one's group applies.
What kind of sign is one that correlates closely to a referent - the signified and signifier are seemingly interchangeable - a photo of someone?
Indexical
Iconic
Symbolic
