COMM 330 EXAM 1

Social Identities
- Group Memberships that ties individuals together
- -Nationality, gender, race or ethnicity Organizational departments
- -Explicit and implicit rules to be apart of a group "Hierarchy"
- -Superior and subordinate (CH 5)
Stereotypes

(CH 5)
Prejudice

(CH 5)
Ethnocentrism

(CH 1)
Embodied Ethnocentrism

(CH 3)
What is Communication?

(CH 3)
How Culture Influences Communication

(CH 3)
Idiosyncrasies

make you different
Identity is dynamic

We assume differnt identities
In groups
- Claiming membership
- People you identify with
Out Groups

Groups in which individual do not claim membership
Identity is
- Contextual
- We do not assume identities that do not apply to the context
External Culture
- Visible & Conscious
- Language & Customs
- Acquired through observation & education
- Easily learned & can be changed
Internal Culture
- Invisible & Unconscious
- Values & Beliefs
- Ways of thinking & perceiving
- Influences motives & behavior
- Implicitly learned & not easily changed
Homogeneous

Same
Heterogeneous

Different
Culture
- is Subjective
- -No one views their culture the same
- influences Subjectivity (perceptions of reality)
- -Created by the brain & habits influence our reality

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COMM 330 EXAM 1

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330 Exam

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2014-09-22T02:04:55Z

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