THEORETIC APPROACHES TO CULTURE SHOCK

Margareta Boaca
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Margareta Boaca: National Defence University “Carol I”, Bucharest, Romania

No 5, Proceedings of the 9-th International Conference on Knowledge Management: Projects, Systems and Technologies, Bucharest, November 26-27, 2015. from Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics, Academy of Economic Studies from Bucharest and "Carol I-st" National Defence University, Department for Management of the Defence Resources and Education

Abstract: The article examines the wide range of theoretic approaches to the phenomenon of culture shock, starting from view that it is an inevitable socio-occupational disease, an outlook that prevailed in mid-20th century. It then reviews the outlooks emphasizing its negative aspects and the approach to it based of the stress management psychological models. The article also refers to the more recent approaches that stress the positive aspects of culture shock, namely the development opportunities that it offers to individuals. The more recent views on the phenomenon no longer see it as an inevitable phenomenon, but as a process with a profound and subjective nature, manifested in very different ways, depending on the personal history and characteristics of the individuals experiencing it, sometimes reflecting the intrapersonal conflicts and inner dissonances of individuals.

Keywords: intrapersonal conflicts; culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 5 pages
Date: 2015-11
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