Assignment Number 7 Discussion/Writing Triandis Chapter 5 (pages 120-133).

Student Name _____________________ Date due: 9-29-04 Psychology 360 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D.

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1.	What is your reaction to the New York Times article on the September 25, 1957 order by President Eisenhower to have 300 United States Army troops escorting nine black children to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas? What theories that you have read in the first four chapters of Triandis that might help us understand?
2.	What is your reaction to the Challenger Disaster? What characteristics of Groupthink might be understood as cultural (e.g., the first four chapters in Triandis)?
3.	What is your reaction to the Identity Groups exercise? What did you learn about your own multiple group memberships? What does this tell you about your cultural background? Using the concept of identity groups, explain how we might improve our ability to communicate with culturally different others.
4.	Describe the Whorfian hypothesis. The vagueness of the early version of the Whorfian hypothesis can be corrected by examining four levels. What are those four levels? What does each mean? What is the present status of his theory? (120-123)
5.	Review gender differences across cultures. What conclusions can be drawn? What is meant by "emics of equality?" (123-126)
6.	Review gender differences among foraging cultures. What two factors create inequality? (127-128)
7.	Review gender differences among agrarian societies. What factors oppress women? (130-131)