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Revision as of 07:09, 12 May 2013

Kettner/Terberl/Woesler Seminar "Comparing Cultures"

Rules

  • No notebooks or cell phones (exception: Leo appointee)
  • All: read required reading before class and come prepared! 2 presentations or 1 presentation (2 people per presentation) and 1 paper
  • Please document all presentations and papers on Wiki (http://wiki.vm.rub.de/uvu/index.php/Comparing_Cultures) and comment on peers' contributions

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Literatur

Presentation by (add name)

1

17-Apr

Kettner Sitzung 1

Definition

 

2

24-Apr

Kettner Sitzung 2

<st1:city><st1:place>Huntington</st1:place></st1:city>

 

3

8-May

 

Multiculturalism Video clips (Klavan)

 

3

 

Definitions: Culture, Multicultural Communication

DE Heringer, Hans Jürgen (2004): Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Tübingen/Basel; Kultur und Sprache pp 105-108, Kulturstandandards und Stereotypen pp 181-203, Critical Incidents pp 213-221

 

3

 

 

DE Maletzke, Gerhard (1996). Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Opladen; Kultur pp 7-19, Nation als Kulturkomponente pp 42-47

 

3

 

 

DE Hofstede, Geert (2001). Lokales Denken, globales Handeln. München; Vorwort pp V-X

 

4

15-May

Own cultural experiences

ppt, student contributions

 

4

 

Critical incidents in intercultural encounters

EN Terri Morrison "Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands" 2nd edition mit aufnehmen für Referate/Rollenspiel-Vorbereitung einzelner Studierender. (HERE UP TO 20 STUDENTS CAN SIGN UP!!!)

                                         

4

 

Culture Shock

EN Cora DuBois 1951, as quoted in: Bruce La Brack, Bruce and Berado, Kate, Theoretically & Practically Speaking ... Is it time to retire the U and W-Curves of Adjustment, Forum on Education Abroad, Austin 2007

 

4

 

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EN REQUIRED READING Kalervo Oberg: “Talk to the Women’s Club of <st1:city><st1:place>Rio de Janeiro</st1:place></st1:city>” (Aug. 3, 1954), published in 1954 by Bobbs-Merrill, republished <st1:metricconverter productid="1960 in">1960 in</st1:metricconverter> Practical Anthropology (7:177-182)

 

4

 

Situations in the foreign culture

ppt, role play

 

5

22-May

Intercultural Competences

ppt, role play

 

5

 

Problem oriented approaches

exoticizing Kohls, social constructivist Spengler, <st1:city><st1:place>Huntington</st1:place></st1:city>, psychological approach - EN Kohls, Robert L.: Models for contrasting and comparing cultures, 1977

 

5

 

 

DE REQUIRED READING Spengler, Oswald: Der Untergang des Abendlandes, München: Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, März 2006 (Ungekürzte Ausgabe, 17. Auflage); Morphologie der Weltgeschichte pp 1-34, Weltgeschichte und Hochkulturen pp 579-616

 

6

29-May

Solution oriented approach

EN Hall, Edward T., Beyond Culture, Harvest 1977: Introduction pp 1-8, chapter 1 The paradox of culture pp 9-24, chapter 15 Culture as Identification pp 223-240; Culture Maps

 

6

 

 

EN REQUIRED READING Woesler, Martin: A new model of cross-cultural communication... / Martin Woesler, - Berlin et al. : Europäischer Univ.verl., 2009, Comparative Cultural Science ; 1, ISBN 978-3-89966-341-9, 2. Auflage; Überblick: pp. 1-32

 

6

 

Historical develop-ment ...

… of multicultural understanding - DE Hegel, G.W.F., Vorlesungen über die <st1:place><st1:city>Philosophie der Weltgeschichte</st1:city>, <st1:state>Berlin</st1:state></st1:place> 1822-1832

 

6

 

 

EN Jaspers, Karl; Bullock, Michael (Tr.) (1953). The Origin and Goal of History (1st English ed.). <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city>: Routledge and Keegan Paul.

 

6

 

 

DE Jaspers, Karl (1949). Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte (1st ed.). München: Piper Verlag; Achsenzeit S. 19-42; Achsenzeit und Folgen S. 76-86; Einleitung S. 15-18; 93-97 Orient und Okzident.

 

6

 

 

DE REQUIRED READING Holenstein, Elmar: Philosophie-Atlas. Orte und Wege des Denkens. Ammann 2004; pp 48-55, 60-61, 122-125

 

7

5-Jun

 

FR Perlmutter, Howard V.: “L’entreprise internationale – Trois conceptions”, in Revue Economique et Sociale (Mai 1965) 151-165

 

7

 

 

EN Perlmutter, Howard V.: The Tortuous Evolution of Multinational Enterprises. In: <st1:city><st1:place>Columbia</st1:place></st1:city> Journal of World Business. 1969, Heft 1, S. 9–18

 

7

 

 

EN Yoshikawa, Muneo: engl. Übers. “The Double-Swing Model of Cross-cultural Communication between the East and the West”, in: Kincaid L., ed., Communication Theory: Eastern and Western Perspectives, <st1:state><st1:place>New York</st1:place></st1:state>: Academic Press, pp 319-330

 

7

 

Culture Maps

see above (Woesler)

 

8

12-Jun

Method of Comparison

Categorization by Hofstede, Minkov, Trompenaar, Kluckhohn/Strodtbeck - EN Hofstede, Geert (1980) Culture's Consequences – International Differences in Work Related Values, Newbury Park, London, Neu Delhi 1980, ISBN 0-8039-1306-0; Summary pp 7-12, Integrating the four dimensions pp 211-231 (die vier Dimensionen als Referate/Rollenspiel-Vorbereitung einzelner Studierender)

 

8

 

 

EN Peter B. Smith, Michael Harris Bond: Social Psychology Across Cultures, Allyn & Bacon, February 1994; Critical view on Hofstede pp 35-45, Crosscultural Interaction pp 163-176

 

8

 

 

EN REQUIRED READING Michael Minkov, What makes us different and similar, 2007; Summary etc pp vii-12, Exclusionism pp 47-52, Restraint pp 111-117, Flexibility pp 163-170

 

9

19-Jun

Method of deriving Cultural Standards: Thomas

DE REQUIRED READING Thomas, Alexander: Hrsg. zus. mit Eva-Ulrike Kinast, Sylvia Schroll-Machl: Handbuch Interkulturelle Kommunikation und Kooperation. 2 Bände. Bd 1: Grundlagen und Praxisfelder; Einführung pp 7-18, chapter 1.1 Kultur und Kulturstandards pp 19-31; Bd 2: Länder, Kulturen und Interkulturelle Berufstätigkeit. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2003; Vorwort pp 7-8, Einführung pp 9-18, Kapitel 1 Kulturstandardmethode pp 19-23 (die einzelnen Länder als Referate/Rollenspiel-Vorbereitung einzelner Studierender)

 

9

 

Cultural Standards

The West versus <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Ppt, role play

 

10

26-Jun

Colors in different cultures

ppt, role play

 

10

 

Marketing in different cultures

ppt, role play

 

11

3-Jul

Review

 

 

12

10-Jul

buffer

Matthes: Lebenswirklichkeit; Operation "Vergleichen" (Leitdifferenz von traditionell und modern); Nation und Kultur, Gesicht nehmen und geben;

 

13

17-Jul

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Srubar: zirkuläres Denken (wir als Kulturmitglieder definieren Kultur), bzgl. Denken, Handeln, Fühlen der Akteure; Luhmann: In Zirkel des Vergleichens Unterscheidungen einführen, die das Prozessieren des Vergleichens zu beobachten; Nostrifizierung und Relativismus vermeiden; Kritik: Kultur sei angeblich als Wissen präsent; Lebenswelt als Tertium comparationis;

 

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