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Module 1: Cultural Dimensions

Readings

Biswas-Diener, R. & Thin, N. (2020). Culture [PDF]. In R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (Eds), Noba textbook series: Psychology. Champaign, IL: DEF publishers. Retrieved from http://noba.to/y9xcptqw. Copyright © 2020 by Diener Education Fund. This material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 

Levine, R. V. (2020). Time and culture [PDF]. In R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (Eds), Noba textbook
series: Psychology. Champaign, IL: DEF publishers. Retrieved from http://noba.to/g6hu2axd. Copyright © 2020 by Diener Education Fund. This material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 

Hofstede, G. (2011). Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model in Context [PDF]. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.9707/2307-0919.1014. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Gelfand, M. J., Raver, J. L., Nishli, L. H., Leslie, L. M., Lun, J. …. (2011). Differences between
tight and loose cultures: A 33-nation study. Science, 332, 1100-1104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1197754. Available through PsycInfo Database.

Teaching Materials

Major Points

  1. About Culture
    1. Psychology: “Cross-cultural” or “Cultural”
    2. Culture “in here” “out there”
  2. Time Orientation
    1. Polychronic
    2. Monochronic
  3. Communication Information
    1. High Context
    2. Low Context
  4. Self-Other
    1. Individualism Collectivism
    2. Interdependet- Independent
  5. Power Distance
    1. Hierarchical
    2. Non-Hierarchical
  6. Race
    1. Genetic? Social?
    2. Human Genome Project

Videos

The psychology of culture |  Fernanco Lanzer | TEDxAuBG (22:23)

 

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Everything you always wanted to know about culture | Saba Safdar| TEDxGuelphU (17:35)

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The psychology of time |  Philip Zimbardo (7:07)

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Critical Thinking Questions

Critical Thinking Questions

  • Find a current news article about an event or situation in which cultural differences between persons born and educated in different countries may have  played a role (there are always several). Which one of the six Hofstede et al. (2010) dimensions is most useful for understanding what was said and done?
  • Are there activities where you might benefit from another culture’s approach to time rather than your usual approach? Give an example.
  •  Is it fair to conclude that some cultural time practices are more advanced than others? That some are healthier than others? Explain.

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