T2-C1 Cultural Dimensions

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  • Culture: a set of common norms that regulates interactions and behaviors in a specific society
  • Cultural norms: is a set of rules based on socially or culturally shared beliefs that individuals behave in to get accepted within that cultural groups, which are collections of individuals who share a culture. These rules can be explicit, which means some of them are written, and implicit rules that are simply understood
  • cultural dimensions: was invented by Hofstede to discussing and comparing on shared beliefs and values between the culture
  • Individualistic culture: when the individual has looser ties with the members, tend to act independently driven by their personal goals
  • Collectivistic culture: when members have a strong bonds with their social groups and emphasize group loyalty and co-operation with others
  • Cultural dimensions affect memory - depending on the cultural dimension you are, it can affect memory