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-learned patterns of behavior and attitudes shared by a group of people |
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| Culture is learned through.... |
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interaction
-observation
-imitation |
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George Murdock’s
Cultural Universals
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-cooking
-education
-marriage
-mourning
-feasting
-athletics
-courtship |
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-it is a blueprint for life -helps us organize stimuli determines membership shapes worldviews |
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| Characteristics of worldview |
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-Broad
-cultures can differ greatly with their worldviews
-Specific
-can be very different from person to person yet be very specific based on where people were born, how much money they had etc.
-Learned
-something you gather based on experiences
-Unconscious
-not even aware of the ways it is possible to live
-Guide
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-Relative
-based on each individual person |
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| the process by which you decide what people are like and give meaning to their actions |
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| 3 stages of cultural perception... |
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selecting
-attending to some information and ignoring others EX: carpet, drapes, shirt etc
-organizing
-putting ours info into categories and place them in ones we are familiar to
-stereotypes-categories…EX: not another teen movie
-scripts-expected sequences of behavior
-interpreting
-giving meaning to the behavior or stimuli |
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Perception differences…
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-physiological differences
-expectations
-cognitive abilities
-experiences |
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The process by which persons share information meaning and feelings through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages àthe creation of meaning through sharing symbols |
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| Perspectives of Communication |
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-universalistàthe process is
-relativistàdifferent for each person |
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| -Interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs |
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àphysical
-natural environment which the culture is situated
-decides what type of life a person can live
-can determine which types of clothing one wears
-ties into language…decides how a person talks àHistorical
-events occurring can change culture etc
-language is changed…WMD…AL Queda…Iraq
-technologic advances àPolitical
-political forces which exist in a period of time
-New laws established
-new types of leaders…Hilary…Obama àSocial
-practices and beliefs that are shared by a culture at a certain time
-EX: Slavery…smoking…gays
-can change and transform over time |
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History
-All people places and things are influenced by their history Types...
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àNational
-the history of a nation
-peoples sense of nationhood and collectivity àCultural
-associated with specific groups…often in a nation
-where these people originated and where their practices came from
-EX: Norwegan history vs white history…different history àFamily/Personal
-occurring along with other histories
-more personal level |
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Neolocal
-set up shop away from parents
Matrilocal
-lives with woman’s parents
Patrilocal
-lives with mans parents |
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Education System in France
4 Parts
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1) Pre compulsory Education
-ages 3-5
-not required
2) Primary Elementary Education
-grammar
-ages 6-11
3) Lower Secondary Education
-ages 11-15
-foreign language
4) Upper Secondary Education
-preparing people for college
-ages |
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-How our self projects out into the world…how others see us
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| -the process by which people portray themselves |
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-the process by which other people attribute identities to us -not always matching avowel |
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-dominant culture
-principals and ideas associated with that culture
-the norm |
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-shared characteristics which function within the macroculture
-communication is specific to each individual microculture |
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àchanges…influences on and changes throughout
-gender -age
-religious
-class
-race
-ethnicity |
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-people from multiple races can share an ethnicity
-ethinic identity associates with the groups one connects themselves with |
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| acting like racial stereotypes and favorability doesnt occur |
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| -enduring concepts of good or bad, right or wrong |
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| -they identify core elements of cultural systems |
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-past oriented
-present oriented
-future oriented |
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BASIC IDEAS of humans toward nature
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-humans are subjugated by nature
-humans are in harmony with nature
-both aware of both
-humans are the master of nature |
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-just being
-growing
-doing |
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-lowàdon’t mind uncertainty
-highàdo not like uncertainty |
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-less hierarchy
-minimizes inequality
-do not challenge authority
-student value independance |
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-value social hierarchy
-inequality is appropriate
-do not challenge authority
-students comply with teachers and parents |
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-achievement
-assertiveness
-aggressive |
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-focus on service
-gender equality
-cooperative orientation
-nurturing for men and women |
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| Hall’s…Low Context vs High Context |
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low-they say exactly what they think
high-they rely highly upon context clues |
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| is the process whereby an established culture teaches an individual by repetition its accepted norms and values |
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| Kloph nad McCroskey Comm process |
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-adaptive -irreversible pg 39 of packet |
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