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Culture and the self (1-2) and culture and emotion (3) and personality (4-6) and culture and health (7-9), workplace (10-23)
Individualism-collectivism best known as cultural syndromes
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What does an emotion involve?
A physiological response, expressive reaction and subjective experience
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Tsimane big two
Neuroticism and openness missing. Prosociality (extraversion and agreeableness) and industriousness (conscientiousness)
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Personality gene flow hypothesis
Islanders lower on extraversion and openness. Selective immigration hypothesis - higher openness + extraversion = more likely to move. Agreeableness = less likely to move
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Determinants of life satisfaction and happiness
GDP, individualism-collectivism and democracy/perceived free choice
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Social representations
Structured mental content about socially relevant phenomena, take form of images or metaphors
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Eurasia project findings (Georgia) (5)
most thought condoms were natural 30% felt carrying one was shameful, 35% can tell if someone has aids, 45% mainly gay people get aids, 40% male, 3% female tried drugs
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Changes in routine (swine flu) (5)
15% change routine as result of swine flu. 65% social life is worse, 35% friends didn't want to spend time with them, 40% family didn't. 20% experienced discrimination
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Trompenaars 7 employee dimensions
universalism-particularism, neutral vs emotional, specific vs diffuse orientations, individualism-collectivism, achievement vs ascription, attitudes to time, attitudes to environment
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Universialism vs particularism
whether there are universal rules or rules are about particular individual
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Specific vs diffuse orientations
whether your life space/work place relationship was diffused across different parts of your lifespace e.g. are home and work different and separate?
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Trompenaars 2 type model
Horizontal axis - is your culture personal or task oriented? Vertical axis - Is it hierarchical or egalitarian?
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Trompenaars 4 types of organisations
Egalitarian and task-oriented, egalitarian and personal, hierarchical and task-oriented, hierarchical and personal
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Type 1: hierarchical and personal
family culture e.g. Japan, v personal, face to face
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Type 2: hierarchical and task-oriented (Eiffel tower)
steep, symmetrical broad at base, impersonal, personal relationships discouraged e.g. Germany, Denmark
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Type 3: egalitarian and task-oriented (guided missile)
about achieving a goal, impersonal, pay related to performance, individualistic cultures
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Type 4: egalitarian and personal (incubator)
personal, small organisations e.g. start ups, low PD e.g. Sweden
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