Culture

Theoretical questions

1. Give a definition of system of linear algebraic equations.

2. Give a definition of the augmented and matrix forms of its entry.

3. What do you call a solution of system of linear algebraic equations?

4. What system is called consistent?

5. What system is called inconsistent?

6. What system is called determined?

7. What system is called undetermined?

8. What methods are used for finding a solution of system?

9. What system are called equivalent transformations?

10. Write formulas by Cramer. What case are they used?

11. What is Gauss method?

12. What is Jordan-Gauss method?

13. What is matrix method?

14. Formulate Kronecker–Capelli theorem.

15. What solution is called general?

16. What solution is called particular?

17. What solution is called basic?

18. What solution is called supporting?

· Definition

· Characteristics of Culture

· Attitudes and Beliefs

· Values

· Categorizing Cultures

· Gender

From the instant of birth, a child is formally and informally taught how to behave. This commanding power of culture leads Edward Hall (1977) to conclude that "there is not one aspect of human life that is not touched and altered by culture". In many ways Hall is cor­rect: Culture is everything and everywhere. And, more important, culture and communication work in tandem—they are inseparable. In fact, it is often difficult to decide which is the voice and which is the echo.

Culture helps govern and define the conditions and circumstances under which various messages may or may not be sent, noticed, or interpreted. Our entire repertory of communicative behaviors depends largely on the culture in which we have been raised. Remember, we are not born knowing how to dress, what toys to play with, what to eat, which gods to worship, or how to spend our money and our time. Culture is both teacher and textbook. From how much eye contact we make to explana­tions of why we get sick, culture plays a dominant role in our lives. It is the foundation of communication; and when cultures are diverse, communication practices may be different.

Concern about cultural diversity has given rise to the marriage of culture and communication and to the recognition of intercultural communication as a unique field of study. Inherent in this fusion is the idea that intercultural communication entails the investi­gation of those elements of culture that most influence interaction when members of two or more cultures come together in an interpersonal setting.

Culture is notoriously difficult to define. In 1952, the American anthropologists, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, critically reviewed concepts and definitions of culture, and compiled a list of 164 different definitions. Apte, writing in the ten-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, summarizes the problem as follows: 'Despite a century of efforts to define culture adequately, there was in the early 1990s no agreement among anthropologists regarding its nature.' This is a view which is still widely shared.

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