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IE3 ICC Seminar: Lesson 8

6/3/2015

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Hi everyone,

Over the next few weeks, we'll be busy preparing for our presentations and learning two main theories to compare cultures.

Cultural Dimensions:
Over the next two weeks, we'll be learning two main theories that are used to compare cultures. In this week's lesson, we looked at Hofstede's research that outlines five dimensions to culture:
1.  individualism vs. collectivism
2.  masculinity vs. femininity
3.  power distance
4.  uncertainty avoidance
5.  long-term vs. short-term orientation

In next week's lesson, we'll review these dimensions, and then move onto Value Orientation.

Homework:
1.  Research your presentation topic
  • outlines due June 15 before 12:00 noon
2.  Blog Comment #7
3. 
Reading pp. 187-212 (ch. 8) and worksheet
  • Please download the worksheet at the end of the summary. This will be your "reflection topic" for this week. I'll collect the worksheet at the beginning of next week's lesson.

Blog Question #7:

Japan is ranked at the world's most "masculine" country.
  1. Give three specific examples that show that Japan is a masculine country.
  2. How does this masculinity affect gender equality? (In 2014, Japan was ranked 104 out of 142 countries for gender equality.)

*Write 150-200 words.
*Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
*Submit by Monday, June 8 by 6:00pm.

Value Orientation Worksheet
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File Type: pdf
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