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9780803944886

Becoming Intercultural Vol. 8 : An Integrative Theory of Communication and Cross-Cultural Adaptation

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    9780803944886

  • ISBN10:

    0803944888

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-11-29
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

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Summary

This book looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. It focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning of their adaptation process, how their internal conditions change over time, the role of their ethnic and personal backgrounds, and of the conditions of the host environment affecting the process. Addressing these and related issues, the author presents a comprehensive theory, or a "big picture," of the cross-cultural adaptation phenomenon.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
ix
Preface xi
Part I. The Background
Introduction
3(8)
Common Experiences of Crossing Cultures
4(6)
Theorizing About Cross-Cultural Adaptation
10(1)
Existing Approaches to Cross-Cultural Adaptation
11(18)
Macro-Level and Micro-Level Perspectives
12(3)
Long-Term and Short-Term Adaptation
15(2)
Adaptation as Problem and Adaptation as Learning/Growth
17(4)
Varying Theoretical Accounts and Empirical Assessments
21(2)
Divergent Value Premises: Assimilationism and Pluralism
23(3)
Toward Integration
26(3)
Part II. The Theory
Organizing Principles
29(16)
The Domain and Boundary Conditions
30(5)
Assumptions: Strangers as Open Systems
35(3)
Mechanics of Theorizing
38(4)
Empirical Grounding
42(3)
The Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
45(26)
Cultural Adaptation
46(3)
Cross-Cultural Adaptation
49(5)
The Stress-Adaptation-Growth Dynamic: A Process Model
54(7)
Three Facets of Intercultural Transformation
61(7)
Axioms
68(3)
The Structure of Cross-Cultural Adaptation
71(26)
Personal Communication: Host Communication Competence
72(2)
Social Communication
74(4)
Environment
78(4)
Predisposition
82(3)
Linking Dimensions and Factors: A Structural Model
85(3)
Assumptions, Axioms, and Theorems
88(9)
Part III. Elaboration of the Theory
Personal Communication
97(24)
Host Communication Competence
98(2)
Cognitive Components
100(8)
Affective Components
108(6)
Operational Components
114(3)
Linking Cognitive, Affective, and Operational Components
117(4)
Social Communication
121(26)
Host Social Communication
122(12)
Ethnic Social Communication
134(8)
Linking Factors of Host and Ethnic Social Communication
142(5)
Environment
147(18)
Host Receptivity
148(4)
Host Conformity Pressure
152(3)
Ethnic Group Strength
155(5)
Linking Factors of Communication and Environment
160(5)
Predisposition
165(18)
Preparedness for Change
166(2)
Ethnic Proximity
168(4)
Adaptive Personality
172(8)
Linking Factors of Communication and Predisposition
180(3)
Intercultural Transformation
183(20)
Functional Fitness
185(2)
Psychological Health
187(3)
Intercultural Identity
190(4)
Emergence of Intercultural Personhood
194(9)
Part IV. The Theory and the Reality
Research Considerations
203(18)
The Theory: Principal Features
204(4)
Theory-Research Correspondence
208(5)
Toward Methodological Integration
213(8)
Practical Insights
221(16)
Understanding Adaptation Potential
222(1)
Host Environment as Partner
223(2)
Willingness to Be Changed
225(2)
Managing Stress
227(2)
Focusing on Communicative Engagement
229(2)
Cultivating Adaptive Personality
231(1)
Forging a Path of Intercultural Personhood
232(5)
Notes 237(6)
References 243(52)
Index 295(26)
About the Author 321

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