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1

There is a plethora of answers when trying to define what culture is and its relationship to communication. According to the text, the _________________ researchers do not advocate a singular definition of culture.
A)social science
B)critical
C)dialectical
2

_________________ conducted an extensive cross-cultural study of personnel working for IBM subsidiaries in 53 countries, observing cultural values and social behaviors.
A)A committee of Chinese researchers
B)Geert Hofstede
C)Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck
3

Which of the following concerns the degree to which people who feel threatened by ambiguous situations respond by avoiding them or trying to establish more structure?
A)Cultural-individual dialectic
B)Uncertainty avoidance
C)Long-term versus short-term orientation
4

Researcher _________________ examined a communication ritual termed "gripping," in which groups of individuals—namely, middle-class Israelis—partake.
A)Tamir Katriel
B)Kristine Fitch
C)Mark Orbe
5

Which of the following prompted the desire to make academic work relevant to everyday life and find the connections between what is learned in the classroom and what is occurring in contemporary society?
A)Proposition 227
B)Cultural Studies
6

Context is neither static nor objective, and can be multi-layered. Consider for a moment the Calvin Klein underwear ads of the early 1990's. An uproar ensued because critics thought they were inappropriate. In what particular context were the critics viewing these ads?
A)political
B)historical
C)social
7

_________________ refers to those cultural activities that are often the domain of the elite.
A)Low culture
B)High culture
C)Popular culture
8

Traditional intercultural communication studies have been influenced mostly by definitions of culture proposed by _________________ and psychologists.
A)technology
B)anthropologists
C)the ethnography of communication
9

Viewing culture as a _________________ opens up new ways of thinking about intercultural communication.
A)simple concept
B)contested site
10

_________________ emphasizes the collectivist connection to other individuals (mostly family members) even after death.
A)Individualism
B)Collectivism
C)Collateral orientation





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