COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Decision-Making, Spreadability, Uncertainty Reduction Theory

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Dale Herbeck

Document Summary

Communication that occurs in interactions between people who are culturally different: culture: leant patterns of perceptions, values, behaviours shared by a group it is dynamic, heterogeneous. Culture shock: feeling of disorientation and discomfort due to lack of familiar environmental cues, reverse Socialisation: 2. 4% of americans marked identification with two or more races, it is a modern phenomenon made possible by international travel. Relationship: can be challenging to have an intercultural relationship because cultures and backgrounds vary there are greater challenges. Encapsulated marginal people: disinterested at having to shift cultures. Constructive marginal people: thrive in their (cid:498)border life(cid:499) 6 dimensions of difference: individualistic/ collectivist i/ we, preferred personality to do/to be, view of human nature fundamentally good/ evil, human-natured value nature/humans, power distribution equal/inequal, long term/ short term. Political and historic forces also effect intercultural encounters. The more powerful group in society usually establish the rules for communication: gender, race, ethinicity etc .