Culture
Learned patterns of behavior and attitudes shared by a group of people
What is culture?
This is referred to as the extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept the unequal distribution of power.
What is power distance?
This is defined as when a scholar looks for the symbolic meaning of verbal and nonverbal activities in the attempt to understand patterns and rules of communication.
What is ethnography of communication?
In this country, greetings are reserved only for the people you know
What is India?
This belief holds that people are born with an inherently positive moral character.
What is the "basically good" view of human nature?
This is the degree to which gender-specific roles are values and the degree to which cultural groups value those masculine and feminine values
What is masculinity-femininity value?
This behavior by students—like using phones in class or disputing grades—is an example of how power is not fixed, but this.
What is dynamic?
This is the importance or meaning that most members of a cultural group attach to a communication activity.
What is symbolic significance?
To a citizen of this country, the fact that Americans shared their religious affiliations publicly was strange.
What is England?
According to this view, humans are a mix of good and bad, and modern U.S. justice often leans toward punishment over rehabilitation.
What is the "mixed view" of human nature?
Communication scholars from the social science paradigm view culture as a set of learned, group-related perceptions called what?
What is collective programming of the mind?
Students resist this type of cultural system by signing their advisors’ names on course registration forms, thereby circumventing the university bureaucracy.
What is the dominant cultural system?
This is the feeling of comfort and familiarity in spaces, behaviors, and actions of others in our own cultural surroundings.
What is embodied ethnocentrism?
In this country, self-promotion isn’t part of the hiring process.
What is Iran?
This view sees people as born sinful and prioritizes punishment over reform.
What is the "basically evil" view of human nature?
This writer wrote that culture “is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”
Who is Raymond Williams?
Power doesn't only come from people—it also comes from these, such as roles like teacher or judge.
What are social institutions?
This is the acronym for the framework that comprises the eight elements for studying naturally occurring speech in depth and in context.
What is SPEAKING?
These are three countries where the culture prefers extensive rules and regulations in organized settings and seek consensus about goals
What are Greece, Portugal, and Japan?
These religions tend to lean towards focusing on the rehabilitation of lawbreakers within jails and prisons to train criminals to rejoin society as contributing citizens.
What are Buddhism and Confucianism?
This is a cultural variability dimension that reflects subjective feelings of happiness (having fun vs. suppressing gratification of needs)
What is indulgence versus restraint?
This type of power is translated into course requirements, grades, and the determination of who speaks in the classroom.
What is institutional power?
This is neither static nor objective, which consists of the social, political, and historical structures in which communication occurs.
What is context?
This is one of the countries that combine both “doing” and “growing” orientations, emphasizing action and spiritual growth.
What is Japan?
Native Americans and Japanese believe in the values of humans living in harmony with nature because it is respected and plays a major role in what parts of life of the community.
What is the spiritual and religious life of the community?