culture shock

Nurul syuhada bt zulkefli

DEFINITION OF CULTURE SHOCK

Culture shock is the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar

way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, or to a move between social environments, also a simple travel to another type of life

FACTORS OF CULTURE SHOCK

( 1)Cultural differences - The outcome of Culture Shock appears to be a function of the differences between the own and the foreign

culture.

(2)Individual differences - This aspect refers to differences in personality and the ability to cope with new environments. It also includes demographic variables such as age, sex, socio-economic class, and education.

(3)Sojourn experience - The experiences

sojourners have and the treatment they receive from members of the host society have a

strong influence on the adaptation process.

PREVENT OF CULTURE SHOCK

Learn as much as you can about your new country of residence.

Take the initiative to make new friends.

Be determined

to avoid

comparisons.

Keep an open mind.

Resist the desire to

judge others because you

don’t understand

them.

EFFECT OF CULTURE SHOCK

Feeling of disorientatio

n

Behaviours and attitudes which were necessary for obtaining goals

in the culture we learned are no longer useful.

Deeply emotionally felt, even when we do not realize it.

l.We typically assume people who behave differently are

wilfully immoral.

To get beyond the reactions of culture shock requires a self-

conscious effort to understand the reasonableness of other people’s

way of life.

SOLUTION

Provide early

education to children

Increase the

beneficial places

Organized activities beneficial

to teenagers

CONCLUSION

Culture shock is certainly a disturbing

impression but it is not that sudden as the term shock

implies

Culture shock is a shock caused by being confronted with a

different culture but there is fair more to the

concept than that.

REFERENCES

Macionis , John and Linda Gerber .

Chapter 3 – Culture

7th edition ed : Toronto , ON .

Pearson CanadaInc 2010

Furnham , Adrian/Bochner , Stephen ‘Social

diffulculty in a foreign culture an empirical analysis in Bochner

Stephen” Oxford 1982

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