Becoming intercultural an integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural adaptation - Kim, Young Yun (Sage Publications, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-294) and index
Common Experiences of Crossing Cultures -- - Theorizing About Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- - Existing Approaches to Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- - Macro-Level and Micro-Level Perspectives -- - Long-Term and Short-Term Adaptation -- - Adaptation as Problem and Adaptation as Learning/Growth -- - Varying Theoretical Accounts and Empirical Assessments -- - Divergent Value Premises: Assimilationism and Pluralism -- - Toward Integration -- - The Theory -- - Organizing Principles -- - The Domain and Boundary Conditions -- - Assumptions: Strangers as Open Systems -- - Mechanics of Theorizing -- - Empirical Grounding -- - The Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- - Cultural Adaptation -- - Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- - The Stress-Adaptation-Growth Dynamic: A Process Model -- - Three Facets of Intercultural Transformation -- - Axioms -- - The Structure of Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- - Personal Communication: Host Communication Competence -- - Social Communication -- - Environment -- - Predisposition -- - Linking Dimensions and Factors: A Structural Model -- - Assumptions, Axioms, and Theorems -- - Elaboration of the Theory -- - Personal Communication -- - Host Communication Competence -- - Cognitive Components -- - Affective Components -- - Operational Components -- - Linking Cognitive, Affective, and Operational Components -- - Social Communication -- - Host Social Communication -- - Ethnic Social Communication -- - Linking Factors of Host and Ethnic Social Communication -- - Environment -- - Host Receptivity -- - Host Conformity Pressure -- - Ethnic Group Strength
This book looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. It focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning their adaptation process; how their internal conditions change over time; the role of their ethnic and personal backgrounds and of the conditions of the host environment affecting the process