Culture shock is what happens when a person is transported from a familiar to an alien culture and can affect anyone: travellers on business or pleasure, refugees, immigrants or foreign students. Coping with the causes and consequences is therefore an important topic for those in the helping professions as well as those who decide who should be uprooted, like managers who decide that employees should be sent away to a foreign land for a year or two to conduct company business. This new edition incorporates over a decade of new research material and should be useful for students of psychology,...
Culture shock is what happens when a person is transported from a familiar to an alien culture and can affect anyone: travellers on business or pleasu...
Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Furnham and Bochner's classic Culture Shock (1986) examines the psychological and social processes involved in intercultural contact, including learning new culture-specific skills, managing stress and coping with an unfamiliar environment, changing cultural identities and enhancing intergroup relations. The book describes the ABCs of intercultural encounters, highlighting Affective, Behavioural and Cognitive...
Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and ...
