Relationship Chapter Discussion Questions
Relationship Chapter Discussion Questions
Culture 1. Explain the idea of “quanxi” and how it relates to the principles behind collectivist’s attitude toward friendships.
-People in the Chinese culture typically make few short-term acquaintances. And friendships are based on quanxi, or social connections. Decision making in collectivist cultures such as Japan, Korea, and China is highly dependent on family members. Families typically decide on their children’s university, profession, and marital partner.
2. Explain the individualist’s attitude toward friendships.
-Individualist cultures perceive friendships as mostly voluntary and spontaneous. Individualists (Americans) tend to emphasize passion and intimacy.
Relationships 1. Define the term “family.”
-A “network of people who share their lives over long periods of time bound by ties of marriage, blood, or commitment, legal or otherwise, who consider themselves as family and who share a significant history and anticipated future of functioning in a family relationship.”
2. Explain how the family relationship affects other interactions.
-The family in which we are raised strongly …show more content…
Men typically create and experience friendships while engaging in actions that cultivate a sense of camaraderie and companionship, such as watching or playing sports or working on handicrafts or fix-it projects. Because masculine socialization discourages the communication of emotion, men perceive more likely to help each other with their problems by creating distractions rather than by communicating about difficulties in an explicit matter. Male same-sex friends communicate intimacy in an indirect, nonverbal manner by engaging in friendly competition and affection punches and backslapping. Unlike female same-sex friends, men typically refrain from directly discussing their
Culture 1. Explain the idea of “quanxi” and how it relates to the principles behind collectivist’s attitude toward friendships.
-People in the Chinese culture typically make few short-term acquaintances. And friendships are based on quanxi, or social connections. Decision making in collectivist cultures such as Japan, Korea, and China is highly dependent on family members. Families typically decide on their children’s university, profession, and marital partner.
2. Explain the individualist’s attitude toward friendships.
-Individualist cultures perceive friendships as mostly voluntary and spontaneous. Individualists (Americans) tend to emphasize passion and intimacy.
Relationships 1. Define the term “family.”
-A “network of people who share their lives over long periods of time bound by ties of marriage, blood, or commitment, legal or otherwise, who consider themselves as family and who share a significant history and anticipated future of functioning in a family relationship.”
2. Explain how the family relationship affects other interactions.
-The family in which we are raised strongly …show more content…
Men typically create and experience friendships while engaging in actions that cultivate a sense of camaraderie and companionship, such as watching or playing sports or working on handicrafts or fix-it projects. Because masculine socialization discourages the communication of emotion, men perceive more likely to help each other with their problems by creating distractions rather than by communicating about difficulties in an explicit matter. Male same-sex friends communicate intimacy in an indirect, nonverbal manner by engaging in friendly competition and affection punches and backslapping. Unlike female same-sex friends, men typically refrain from directly discussing their