Social Interaction and Technology: Cultural Competency and the Universality of Good Manners

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 443-458

  Coe, Kathryn ^a   Barker, Gail ^a   Palmer, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology, learning and good manners; Communication, basic aspect of life development of language facilitating communication; Cultural competency and universality of good manners; Cultural competency training in health care arena as interactions, being intense; Driving current interest in cultural competency a diverse workforce; Ethnographic examples of manners by category; Handshakes, meeting someone saying "please" before every request, typical manners; Manners, defined as a subset of rituals and taboos, rituals stereotyped forms of social cooperation; Social interaction and technology cultural competency and universality of good manners; Standard anthropological conception of manners Franz Boas, as "father of American Anthropology"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867850389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395303.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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