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POWER RELATIONSHIP AND
STEREOTYPING
Dita Grace and Wande Fitri
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POWER RELATIONS AND STEREOTYPING
Here , important intercultural communicationresearch has focused on :
1. Power relations
2. Stereotyping and group marking
3. The characterization of national culturesdifferences
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HOSTEDE AND THE DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE
Culture? Hofstede says :The collective programming of the mind which
distinguishes the members of one group orcategory of people from another.
the dimensions of Hofstede researches, suchas:
- Power distance
- Uncertainty avoidance- Individualism / collectivism
- Masculinity / feminity
- Long term / short term orientation
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THE DIMENSIONS IN THIS BOOK , 4:
1. Power distance
= degree to which member a culture acceptinstitutions and organizations having power
SEE PAGE 82 the characteristics !!!!
Ex:
High PDI = clases Latin, Asian and Africancount
Low PDI = Germanic
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UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE
It is degree to which members feel ambiguityand uncertainty. Hofstede divides 2, such as:
Weak UAI / low UAI for example: Anglo,Nordic and China cultures.
High level UAI / Strong example : UAI inLatin countries, Japan and German-
speaking nations
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INDIVIDUALISM /COLLECTIVISM
Hostede suggests that individualist culturesplace a higher emphasis on individual goalsin comparison to group achievements in
collectivist cultures.
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MASCULINITY / FEMINITY
Masculine cultures: the culture has preferencesfor achievement, heroism, assertiveness andmaterial success / achievement-oriented ex:
Japan, Germany, Austria and Germany Feminity culture: viewed as having a
preference for relationships, modesty, caring for
week and quality for life / has greater focus onrelationships ad maintaining a balance amongpeople, ex: Nordic countries and Netherlands
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POWER RELATIONS IN INTERACTION
Social expectation and conventions
Giddens says that participation in aninteraction can be sufficient to enable person
to acquire same level of control over theconversation.
Ex: the prisoner can maintain social control
in solitary confinement by refusing eat foodas a protest.But from the prisoner to prisonguard is in asymmetrical power relationship,even though the prisoner can control within
interaction.
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ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
Its influence the power relationship between
participants.
Ex: participants = how access to informationdiffers as a results of socialeconomics,educational and culture background.
The power relationship = how this in turn
impacts in given interactions and or intuition.
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STEREOTYPING AND IDEOLOGY
Ideology -> stereotypingany two cultures or social groups are polaropposites
In negative stereotyping, there are 4 majorsteps :
- Contrast 2 cultures / grop on bassi of a singledimensions.
- Focus on this artificial and ideological differenceas a problem for communication
- Assign a positive value to one strategy/ group
and a negative value to the other strategy or
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In positive stereotyping , there are 2 mainstrategies :
1. Solidarity fallacy : relates to falselycombining ones group with some group in
order to establish common ground on onesingle dimensions.
2. Lumpin fallacy : a person makes a falsegrouping in reference to two other groups