Transcript Cultural Psychology: Psychology of Culture Shock

Cultural Psychology:
Psychology of Culture Shock
Prof. dr hab. Halina GrzymałaMoszczyńska, [email protected]
Dr Marek Szopski,
[email protected]
Timing
Winter semester 2012/2013, 3 hours
each class
Dates:
October: 8, 15, 22, 29
November: 5, 12, 19, 26
December: 3,10
Contact
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Professor Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska - office hours
Tuesday 15:15 -16:00,Collegium Broscianum Grodzka
Street 52, room 14 (ground floor).
Dr Szopski can be of help after class and through
internet.
Feel free to contact us and to ask questions and discuss
issues related to class topics as well as have
suggestions as to the content of the course.
Maintaining an ongoing dialogue will make the
experience of this class more productive and
enjoyable
Literature:
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Primary:
Lewis, Richard D.:When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures, London, 2006.
Hofstede, Geert : Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind,
Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival, McGrawHill, 1991 or
http://www.geerthofstede.nl
Trompenaars, Fons and Hampden-Turner, Charles: Riding the Waves of Culture:
Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business, London, 1997.
http://changingminds.org/explanations/culture/trompenaars_culture.htm
http://alangutterman.typepad.com/files/cms---trompenaars-seven-dimensions.pdf
Secondary:
Klopf, Donald W.: Intercultural Encounters: The Fundamentals of Intercultural
Communication, Morton Publishing Co. 1996.
Martin, Judith N., Nakayama, Thomas K.: Experiencing Intercultural Communication:
an Introduction, McGraw Hill. 2005.
Jandt, Fred E.; An introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a
Global Community, 2005.
Intended Learning
Outcomes
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To prepare students for struggle with acculturation
stress due to new cultural envinronment
To make participants aware of facts and theories
providing understanding and explanation of cultural
systems and communication practices between and
within societies in general and in professional
activities in particular.
Students will develop better understanding of the
relationship between communication strategies and
interaction dynamics and the processes of
socialization and acculturation.
The role of language, non-verbal, verbal and
contextual communication will be studied
Method
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Students will develop understanding of
cultural encounters,intercultural
communication skills through readings,
case studies, documentaries and
individual presentations. Through the
choice of specific culture and study of
cases they will develop an informed
perspective both on the culture of
choice and their own.
Requirements
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An essay developing the comprehension of a particular case of
intercultural activity resulting in a presentation of that case in
class,
photo- essay about Cracow as an intercultural environment,
final test on concepts and ideas covering the field of study will
complete the course requirements.
Composition of final grade:
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The test and both essays will contribute 75% of the final grade,
while the presentation and course participation will contribute
the remaining 25%. Students are expected to participate in
class discussions and show interest in contemporary
intercultural encounters.
Description of the photoessay
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Students are required to take 10 pictures pertaining to the Cracow as an
intercultural environment and include comments in which they note their
reasons for the selection of a certain motive plus their feelings and emotions at
the time the photo was taken. This is necessary as people tend to forget why
they selected an object and do not clearly remember their feelings and emotions
later on. Students are entirely free in the selection of aspects and motives from
Polish/Cracow environment. It is necessary to use literature from the
course in order to provide analysis of intercultural motives chosen in the
pictures.
Photo-essay should be ready for submission and discussion in class by week
9 (December 3). Both electronic and printed version are required. Delay
in submitting the photo-essay on time will result in lower final grade.
Printed photo-essay needs to be submitted to the MISH Office or to
Professor Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska’s Office.
As a „trial run” please bring print – out of one picture with a comment
to class at week 2 ( October 15). We’ll discuss your work and clarify
all possible misunderstandings about your photo-essay.
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Week One (Oct 8)
Introduction to the course
Introducing basic concepts
Culture – definitions and dimensions.
Week Two (October 15)
Cultural Diversity – a problem or an advantage?
Dealing with Diversity – Culture Shock and Acculturation
Identity and adaptation
Assimilation, Integration and Pluralism
Assimilation strategies – Adaptation strategies
Week Three (October 22)
Experiencing intercultural communication - Six imperatives: the peace imperative, the economic imperative,
the demographic imperative, the self-awareness imperative, the ethical imperative
Cultural diversity and its dimensions; cultures within cultures, business cultures.
Social and cultural identities
Multiculturalism and Identity
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Week Four (Oct 29)
Perception and Intercultural
Communication
Values and Behavior
Beliefs and Attitudes
Cultural Antipathy – ethnocentrism and
prejudice
Barriers to intercultural communication
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Week Five (Nov 5)
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Discrimination
Presentation of selected cases by students
Week Six (Nov 12)
Social Institutions – Religion, Family and Education
Religious identity
Social Institutions – Economic and Political Systems –
Ideology
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Week Seven (Nov 19)
Language – a communication vehicle
Verbal Issues
Nononverbal Communication - a hidden
language
Nonverbal Issues
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Week Eight (Nov 26)
Communication competence and its
criteria
Relationships across differences
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Week Nine (Dec 3)
Developing intercultural relationships
Developing multicultural society
Review of the course
 Photo-essays are due
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Week Ten ( Dec. 10)
FINAL Test
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In this picture we see a bike, originally build in the Netherlands, my
home country that is very popular in Poland since I have seen it a lot.
Not in the same amount as in Holland, but compared to different
countries I have ever visited it I can consider Poland to be a bikefriendly country.But now comes the most remarkable part. When I
came to Krakow I was considering buying a bike instead of getting a
public transportation card because in the Netherlands it is the
quickest way of transportation in a city because you never have to
wait for the tram, bus or subway and get there very quickly from door
to door. I went to the flea market at Hala Targowe to buy me a bikeI
was really surprised by the amount of Dutch bikes they had to offer
and I was more surprised by the price they were asking for it. In
Amsterdam you can buy a bike without locks on the street for about
10 or 15 euro (40-60 PLN) but here they were easily asking up to 250
or 300 PLN for a simple and old bike. They were offended when I
started bargaining about the price and didn’t want to pay more than
150 PLN for it. When they were asking me where I was from and
asked what I would pay in Holland for a bike they were surprised and
gave the argument that the bike was stolen, that was the only reason
why it could be so cheap. In my opinion they are just making a fool of
themselves by saying that because it was obvious that these bikes
were not originally bought in Holland and then transported to Poland.
This could be seen as my end of my honeymoonperiod in Poland and I
start to get some troubles in managing life here. (cultureshock