LIT 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Penetration Theory, General Idea, Individualism
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Uses the ideas of social exchange, but claims that you develop and maintain relationships in which the ratio of your rewards relative to your costs is approximately equal to your partner"s: Equitable - both parties get rewards: inequality - one pays more of consts and other enjoys more rewards/ both work hard, but one gets more rewards --- type of relationship theory. High-context cultures: high-context messages, most of the meaning is implied by physical setting/presumed to be part of individual"s internalized beliefs/values/norms/social practices (ex: bffs that have shorthand way of comm) Low-context cultures: low-context messages, majority of info is vested in explicit code (ex: first meeting of someone you don"t know) High - time is flexible/does not matter;there is a vague sense of it; comm. is faster. Low - time focused; regimented; less time in day b/c comm is slower. High - focused on group/family; being a part of group; collective > individual.
