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Intro to comm day 1
pp "Comm. and culture. ch 1-4 in Jandt book
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is culture? | a community or population sufficiently large enough to be self sustaining; totality of the groups thoughts, experiences, patterns of behavior, concepts, values and assumptions about life that guide behavior and those evolve |
| how is culture learned | from infancy members of a culture learn patterns of behavior and ways of thinking until they have become internalised |
| def transmissible | the symbols of a culture enable us to pass on the content and patterns of a culture |
| in the 19th centuray culture was used as a synonym for _________- | western civilization |
| the four elements of culture are ____ | symbols, rituals, values, heroes |
| four elements of culture: def of symbols | refer to verbal and nonverbal language |
| four elements of culture: def of Rituals | the socially essential collective activities w/in a culture |
| four elements of culture: def of values | the feelings not open for discussion w/in a culture about what is good or bad, beauty, normal which are present in a majority of the members of a culture |
| four elements of culture: def of heroes | the real or imaginary ppl who serve as behavior models w/in a culture |
| what is cultural identity | identification w/ and perceived acceptance into a group that has a shared system of symbols and meanings as well as norms for conduct |
| what is ethnography | the direct observation, reporting and evaluation of the customary behvior of a culture (requires an extended period of residence and study in a community) |
| subculture definition | resembles a culture in that it usually encompasses a relatively large # of ppl but they exist w/in dominant cultures and are often based on economic or social class, ethnicity, race or geographic region |
| def of social class | a position in a society's hierarchy based on income, education, occupation and neighborhood |
| def of ethnic group | a group of ppl of the same descent and heritage who share a common and distinctive culture passed on through genrations |
| def of ethnic identity | identification w/ and perceived acceptance into a group w/ shared heritage and culture |
| what ia another word for sub-culture | co-culture |
| def of co-culture | part pf a whole, but no one culture is inherently superior to another |
| what is subgroup | "membership group" they exist w/in a dominnet culture and are dependent on that culture (ex: occupation) |
| subgroups: why is membership in subgroups at times temporary | members may participate for a time and then become inactive (ex: girl scouts) |
| subgroup: what is referance group | this refers to any group to which one aspires to attain membership |
| what is race | a large body of ppl characterized by similarity of descent, based on visible physical characteristics (ex: skin color) |
| what are the 10 components of communication (in order) | source, encoding message, channel, noise, receiver, decoding, receiver response and feedback |
| 10 components of communication: def of source | the person w/ an idea he or she desires to communicate (ex: CBS, white house, teahcer, mom) |
| 10 components of communication: def of encoding | the process of putting an idea into symbols, the process verb, oral written |
| 10 components of communication: encoding: def of symbols | have encoded your thoughts (ex: words, nonspoken) |
| 10 components of communication: def of message | this identifies the encoded thought, the result of encoding |
| 10 components of communication: def of channel | the means by which the encoded message is transmitted (AKA media, it can be print, electrnic or the light and sound waives of face-to face communication- more than one channel makes it more effective) |
| 10 components of communication: def of noise | anything that distorts the message the source encodes (if situation does not work well find out what the noise is) |
| 10 components of communication: Noise- what are the three forms | external, internal and semantic |
| 10 components of communication: Noise- def of external noise | sights, sounds, and other stimuli that draw your attention away from the message (ex. listening to an ipod while reading) |
| 10 components of communication: Noise- def of internal noise | refers to your thoughts and feelings that can interfere w/ the message (ex: being tired, hungry, |
| 10 components of communication: Noise- def of semantic noise | refers to how alternative meanings of the sources message symbols can be distracting (ex: if the speaker uses profanity and draw attention away from the message) |
| 10 components of communication: def of receiver | the person who attends to the message, they can be intentional, or any person who came upon the message |
| 10 components of communication: def of decoding | the opposite process of encoding, receiver assigns meaning to the symbols received |
| 10 components of communication: def of receiver response | anything the receiver does after having attended to an decoded the message (range from doing nothing to taking action) |
| 10 components of communication: def of feedback | the portion of receiver response of which the source has knowledge and to which the source attends and assigns meaning, it makes communication a two way and interactive process |
| 10 components of communication: def of context | final component, the environment in which the communication takes place and helps define the communication (ex: culture, church context,) |
| what are the four different communication contexts | international, global, cross-cultural, intercultural |
| what is international communication | the study of the flow of mediated communication between and among countries |
| what is global communication | the study of transborder transfer of info, data and values by groups institutions and governments |
| what is cross-cultural communication | comparing phenomena across cultures (women's role in one culture compared to another ) |
| what is intercultural communication | face-toface interactions among ppl of diverse cultures |
| def of othering | the labeling and degrading of cultures and groups outside of one's own (ex:natives are lazy) |
| what is cultural awareness | understanding the social customs and social system of the host culture |
| what is sensation | the neurological process by which you become aware of your environment |
| senses: more information comes through what sense | our eyes |
| what is the three step process of perception | selection, organization and interpretation what we want to listen to from the external environment (we try to figure out the message) |
| what is interpretation | attaching meaning to sense and data and is synonymous with decoding |
| what are the six barriers to intercultural communication | anxiety, assuming simmilarity instead of differences, ethnocentrism, stereotypes/prejudice, nonverbal misinterpretations, and language |
| def of ethnocentrism | negatively judging aspects of another culture by the standards of one's own culture |
| ethnocentrism is AKA | cultural relativism |
| def of cultural nearsightedness | taking one's own culture for granted and neglecting other cultures |
| ex of eurpcetric ethnocentrism | recognizing only western holidays, basing curricullum on western history, |
| def of stereotype | broad term commonly used to refer to negative or positive judgements made about individuals based on any observable or believed group membership |
| def of prejudice | the irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race or religion or sexual orientation |
| def of profiling | a law enforcement practice of scrutinizing certain individuals based on characteristics thought to indicate a likelihood of criminal behavior |
| what does it mean that culture is dynamic | it is ongoing and subject to fluctuation and change (ex: now texting is an issue w/ driving, ten yrs ago it did not exist) |
| what does it mean that culture is selective | every culture represents a limited choice of behavior patterns from the infinite patterns of human experience |
| def of race | a large body of ppl characterized by common descent, general and not specific |
| def of ethnic group | group of ppl of the same descent and heritage who share acommon and distinctive culture passed on through generations(more specific then race) |
| learning and sharing our _______ requires ______ | culture, communication |
| def of communication | a forn of human behavior derived from a need to connect and interact with other human beings |
| how does culture affect perception | based on culture, we decide what we are going to listen to |
| perception: what is selection | we are exposed to many stimuli, we select which ones we will attend to |
| perception: what is organization | organizing the input of stimuli in some meaningful way, group stimuli as similar or different |
| perception: what is interpretation | attaching meaning to sense data and is similar to decoding |
| when did the formal study of intercultural communication begin and by whom, | late 1940's, george simmel |
| who is the stranger | the person who comes today and stays tomorrow; the person who is close in physical distance but far in cultural distance |
| communication satisfies what | certain basic human needs (companionship, expression of aggression, or to pursue certain goals) |
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