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International Students and Culture Shock
Title: International Students and Culture Shock
Category: Social Sciences / Psychology
Details: Words: 1917 | Pages: 8.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
International Students and Culture Shock
For my sociology research project I have explored culture shock, "the impact of moving from a familiar culture to one which is unfamiliar," (UKCOSA 2003:1) by analyzing sociological research on this topic and by conducting observational research within the Trinity university campus. I propose that culture shock arises from a failure in the transmission of symbols from one individual to another when said individual enters the latter's culture which is unfamiliar to him/her. Culture shock, …showed first 75 words of 1917 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1917 total…Unfamiliar Environments." Work & Stress, volume 1, issue 4, page 410.
Pedersen, Paul. 1995. The five stages of culture shock : critical incidents around the world. Connecticut. Greenwood Press.
Schneider, Katherine. "International Students Coping with Culture Shock." November 1st, 2004. < www.uwec.edu/counsel/pubs/shock.htm?>
UKCOSA The Council for International Education. 2003. "International Students and Culture Shock." London. UKCOSA.
Ward, Colleen, Bochner, Stephen and Furnham, Adrian. 2001 The Psychology of Culture Shock. USA and Canada. Routledge.
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