27 Feb Read and annotate the text using the content/form-response grid? format introduced on page 154. Complete the Discussion Questi
- Read and annotate the text using the “content/form-response grid” format introduced on page 154.
- Complete the Discussion Questions on page 189.
- Complete Inside Work: Tracing a Theory’s Development – page 189.
- Submit this Q&A assignment including the grid, the discussion questions, and the Inside Work as one document to Blackboard assignment here.
- There is no peer review for this assignment.
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Running Head: CULTURE SHOCK
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CULTURE SHOCK
Culture shock
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Culture shock
Question 1 – culture shock refers to the condition, or circumstance where an individual experiences the feeling of anxiety and frustration due to the sudden change in cultural environment (Oberg, 1960). The various aspects and circumstances in the new cultural environment causes the respective feeling of cultural shock, which might be realized in form of discomfort.
Question 2– the four stages of culture shock include the honeymoon process, where they get to foreign places and stay in hotels as they try to gain knowledge about the new culture, followed by frustration, where they feel as outcasts and irrelevant to the respective environment, and comes the adjustment, where individuals try to adjust to the conditions and circumstances in the particular place, and then the adaptation stage where they adapt to the particular culture and environment.
Question 3 – migration and immigration processes and activities were done in the recent past, where people had the mandate to adapt and adjust to foreign cultures and environments that they visit. Such is an illustration reveals the time that Oberg’s essay was written (Oberg, 1960). From the actions of travelling and migration still evident to date, there is idea for the essence and the validity of Oberg’s essay.
Content/ form response grid
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Content/form (what) |
Response |
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Honeymoon |
The writer talks about the first stage of cultural shack. Migration to new places is witnessed |
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Frustration |
This is witnessed after the reception becomes opposite of the expectation |
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Adjustment |
One tries to adjust and fit to the respective environment and culture |
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Adaptation |
One slowly becomes used to the new culture and starts to become one of them. |
Oberg’s art about culture shock adjustment to new cultural environments was first written in 1960, and has been cited 4401 times, and maybe cited more according to the google scholar database. The theory of culture shock deems to have received improvising to make it compatible and eligible to the changing world and technologies (Oberg, 1960). Evidence of the particular circumstances is the realized from the display of the article in digital databases, together with the high number of citations from the book. This implies that there is no alteration that has been implemented on the respective article.
The evidence of the number of citations is found in the link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?hl=en&volume=7&publication_year=1960&pages=177-182&author=+Oberg%2C+K.&title=Culture+shock+adjustment+to+new+cultural+environments
Reference
Oberg, K. (1960). Cultural shock: Adjustment to new cultural environments. Practical anthropology, (4), 177-182.
