Globalization Psychology

Delocalization

When one has a strong global identity but fails to identify with their local culture.

Acculturation

the process in which people are exposed to a different culture to their own, start to adopt the behaviours and the norms of the new culture.

Bicultural identity

People can develop cultural identity both to their local culture(s) and global culture.

Behavioural component

the way the attitude affects how we act toward a person, event, or object.

Global Social Identity(GSI)

A construct/identity that people can develop when they feel they belong to a global culture.

ETIC

Create a hypothesis, go in and test it in every culture with the same measure and use that to compare it.

Global culture

Culture that defines and unites individuals globally in terms of norms, symbols, behaviour and shared experience.

National culture

Culture that unities individuals at a national/country level.

Local culture

Culture which is within families, between friends and in relatively small areas - sometimes consistent in one country but can also vary from city to city.

Identity confusion

Difficulty integrating oneself into a single "identity" as one tries to determine one's values and place in society.

EMIC

Take time to understand people's behaviour and culture, then from that you build hypothesis and test it

Globalization

The process of interaction and integration among people of different nations.

Cognitive component

a person's beliefs or knowledge about a person, event, or object.

Affective component

a person's feelings or emotions about a person, event or object.

Bicultural Identity

maintaining one's original cultural identity while integrating oneself into the dominant culture