Intercultural relationsIntercultural relations, sometimes called intercultural studies, is a relatively new formal field of social science studies. It is a practical, multi-field discipline designed to train its students to understand, communicate, and accomplish specific goals outside their own cultures. Intercultural relations involves, at a fundamental level, learning how to see oneself and the world through the eyes of another. It seeks to prepare students for interaction with cultures both similar to their own (e.g.
Cross-cultural studiesCross-cultural studies, sometimes called holocultural studies or comparative studies, is a specialization in anthropology and sister sciences such as sociology, psychology, economics, political science that uses field data from many societies through comparative research to examine the scope of human behavior and test hypotheses about human behavior and culture. Cross-cultural studies is the third form of cross-cultural comparisons.
TransculturationEn anthropologie, la transculturation désigne le processus par lequel une communauté emprunte certains matériaux à la culture majoritaire pour se les approprier et les refaçonner à son propre usage. Ce processus concerne par exemple les rapports entre communauté régionale et nationale, entre communauté marginale et dominante, minoritaire et majoritaire, subordonnée et dominante Le concept de transculturation s'oppose à celui d'acculturation qui est plus ancien, et qui désigne l'absorption de la minorité par la culture dominante.
Henri TajfelHenri Tajfel (nom de naissance en polonais : Hersz Mordche Tajfel), né le à Włocławek, Pologne et mort le à Oxford, Grande-Bretagne, est un psychologue spécialiste de la psychologie sociale. Il est surtout connu pour ses travaux pionniers sur l'aspect cognitif des préjugés et l'identité sociale. Il est un cofondateur de l'. Tajfel a été profondément marqué par la vie concentrationnaire, expérience à partir de laquelle il a développé une réflexion en psychologie. Tajfel nait le dans une famille juive polonaise à Wloclawek, en Pologne, où il grandit.
Intergroup relationsIntergroup relations refers to interactions between individuals in different social groups, and to interactions taking place between the groups themselves collectively. It has long been a subject of research in social psychology, political psychology, and organizational behavior. In 1966, Muzafer Sherif proposed a now-widely recognized definition of intergroup relations: Whenever individuals belonging to one group interact, collectively or individually, with another group or its members in terms of their group identification, we have an instance of intergroup behavior.