Practice question · Put in order
Order the classic stages of culture shock.
- Honeymoon: everything is charming and photogenic
- Frustration: the unspoken rules stop making sense
- Adaptation: functioning comfortably in two codes
- Adjustment: patterns emerge, gaffes decline
Hints
- The initial excitement comes before the difficulty.
- Adjustment can only follow the frustration.
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- Honeymoon: everything is charming and photogenic
- Frustration: the unspoken rules stop making sense
- Adjustment: patterns emerge, gaffes decline
- Adaptation: functioning comfortably in two codes
Why
The frustration trough is where fieldwork gets hard, and where the visitor’s own hidden norms finally become visible as data.
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