Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

social behaviors - 
In physiology and sociology, social behavior is 
behavior directed towards society, or taking place between, 
members of the same species
 
 
Social Interaction – 
a social exchange between two or more 
individuals 
 
 
social scientist – 
the study of society, human social interaction, 
and the rules and processes that bind and separate people not 
only as individuals, but as members of associations, groups and 
institutions
 
 
Stereotypes -
generalizations of people groups based on past 
experiences, which are deep-rooted in the psyche of the people 
 
Stereotype threat
- the experience of anxiety or concern in a 
situation where a person has the potential to confirm a negative 
stereotype about their social group. 
Subcultures 
– smaller part of the main culture