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CHAPTER 5 HCOM 320

CHAPTER 5 HCOM 320. What Is Culture Shock? Stressful transitional period moving from a familiar to unfamiliar environment. CULTURAL SHOCK (Oberg, 1960). Sense of identity loss & deprivation Identity strain due to psychological adaptation Identity rejection/new culture

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CHAPTER 5 HCOM 320

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  1. CHAPTER 5HCOM 320 What Is Culture Shock? Stressful transitional period moving from a familiar to unfamiliar environment.

  2. CULTURAL SHOCK(Oberg, 1960) • Sense of identity loss & deprivation • Identity strain due to psychological adaptation • Identity rejection/new culture • Identity confusion/one’s role • Identity powerlessness/not coping with new environment

  3. Awkward Disoriented Excited Embarrassed Alive Insecure Challenged Bizarre Energized Exhausted Surprised Anxious Intense Rewarded POLLBAFA BAFAIdentify Feelings

  4. ABCs of Cultural Shock • Affectively – anxiety, bewilderment, confusion, disorientation, etc. • Behaviorally – norms and rules confusion • Cognitively – lack competence to interpret or explain bizarre behaviors

  5. PROS & CONSNegative implicationsPositive effects

  6. Managing culture shock • Motivational orientation • Personal expectations • Cultural distance • Sociocultural adjustment • Psychological adjustment • Personality attributes

  7. U-curve Adjustment Model • Initial adjustment • Optimistic or elation phrase • Crisis • Overwhelmed by own incompetence • Regained adjustment • Settling-in phrase; effective coping

  8. W-shaped Adjustment Model • Honeymoon stage • Hostility stage • Humorous stage • In-sync adjustment stage • Ambivalence stage • Reentry culture shock stage • Re-socialization stage

  9. Reentry culture shock • Reentry culture shock • Identity change; idealized images; reintegrating; family & friends; demand for role conformity • Resocialization • Do not recognize new skills • Alienated returnees • Proactive returnees

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