Comm 4-6

Front 1

culture

Back 1

a way of life: system of ideas, values, beliefs, structures, and practices.

Front 2

What are the two main premises about culture?

Back 2

multiple social communities may coexist in a single society and cultures are systems

Front 3

what are social communities?

Back 3

groups of people who live within a dominant culture yet are also members of another group that is not dominant in the society

Front 4

What are race, ethnicity, gender, and social status examples of?

Back 4

social communities

Front 5

How are cultures systems?

Back 5

they are coherent systems of understandings, traditions, values, communication practices, and ways of living

Front 6

Beliefs (cultural, religious, or scientific)

Back 6

conceptions of what is true, factual, or vivid

Front 7

values

Back 7

shared views of what is good, right, worthwhile, and important with regard to conduct and existence

Front 8

Beliefs have to do with what people _________

Back 8

think is true

Front 9

values are concerned with what should be or what is ________

Back 9

worthy in life

Front 10

informal rules that guide how members of a culture act, as well as how they think and feel

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norms

Front 11

to evolve or change over time is to be ____

Back 11

dynamic

Front 12

the creation of tools, ideas and practices

Back 12

inventions

Front 13

diffusion

Back 13

borrowing from another culture

Front 14

adversity that brings about change in a culture

Back 14

cultural calamity

Front 15

the use of one's own culture and its practices as the standard for interpreting the values, beliefs, norms, and communication of cultures

Back 15

ethnocentrism

Front 16

perspective that recognizes that cultures vary in how they think, act, behave, believe, and value

Back 16

cultural relativism

Front 17

a common response to diversity which occurs when we attack the cultural practices of others or proclaim that our own cultural traditions are superior

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resistance

Front 18

when people give up their own ways and adopt the ways of the dominant culture

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assimilation

Front 19

accepting differences regardless of approval or understanding

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tolerance

Front 20

realizing that differences are rooted in cultural teachings and that no customs, traditions, or behaviors are intrinsically better than any others

Back 20

understanding

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what are three possible responses to diversity?

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resistance, tolerance, understanding, respect, and participation

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incorporating some of the practice and values from other groups into our own lives

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participation

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ability to speak and think in more than one language

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multilingual

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symbols are _______, not concrete or tangible

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abstract

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symbols are _______, their meanings aren't clear cut or fixed

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ambiguous

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symbols are ______, not intrinsically connected to what they represent

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arbitrary

Front 27

shared understandings of what communication means and what kinds of communication are and are not appropriate in certain situations

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communication rules

Front 28

define what comm means by telling us how to count certain kinds of communications

Back 28

constitutive rules

Front 29

specify when, how, where, and with whom to talk about certain things

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regulative rules

Front 30

using a single label to represent the totality of a person

Back 30

totalizing

Front 31

mental mark of the beginnings and endings of particular interactions

Back 31

punctuation

Front 32

words that strongly slant perceptions and thus meanings

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loaded language

Front 33

contemplating things that currently have no real existence

Back 33

hypothetical thought

Front 34

recognizing another persons point of view

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dual perspective

Front 35

evaluation that consists of assesments that suggest that something is unchanging or frozen in time

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static

Front 36

technique developed by early communication scholars that allows us to note that our statements reflect only specific times and circumstances

Back 36

indexing

Front 37

the three dimensions of relational meaning

Back 37

responsiveness, liking, and power

Front 38

kinesics

Back 38

body position and motions, including facial expressions

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haptics

Back 39

physical touch

Front 40

artifacts

Back 40

personal objects with which we announce our identities and personalize our environments

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proxemics

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space and how we use it

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chronemics

Back 42

how we perceive and use time to define identities and interaction

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paralanguage

Back 43

vocal communication that does not involve words (sounds, inflection, tone)