Becoming intercultural : an integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural adaptation /
This book looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. It focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning their adaptation process; how their internal conditions change over t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
©2001.
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Colección: | Current communication.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Common Experiences of Crossing Cultures
- Theorizing About Cross-Cultural Adaptation
- Existing Approaches to Cross-Cultural Adaptation
- Macro-Level and Micro-Level Perspectives
- Long-Term and Short-Term Adaptation
- Adaptation as Problem and Adaptation as Learning/Growth
- Varying Theoretical Accounts and Empirical Assessments
- Divergent Value Premises: Assimilationism and Pluralism
- Toward Integration
- The Theory
- Organizing Principles
- The Domain and Boundary Conditions
- Assumptions: Strangers as Open Systems
- Mechanics of Theorizing
- Empirical Grounding
- The Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
- Cultural Adaptation
- Cross-Cultural Adaptation
- The Stress-Adaptation-Growth Dynamic: A Process Model
- Three Facets of Intercultural Transformation
- Axioms
- The Structure of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
- Personal Communication: Host Communication Competence
- Social Communication
- Environment
- Predisposition
- Linking Dimensions and Factors: A Structural Model
- Assumptions, Axioms, and Theorems
- Elaboration of the Theory
- Personal Communication
- Host Communication Competence
- Cognitive Components
- Affective Components
- Operational Components
- Linking Cognitive, Affective, and Operational Components
- Social Communication
- Host Social Communication
- Ethnic Social Communication
- Linking Factors of Host and Ethnic Social Communication
- Environment
- Host Receptivity
- Host Conformity Pressure
- Ethnic Group Strength.