COMM 2303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Third Culture Kid, Model Minority, Culture Shock
9 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
17668 (lecture delivered via blackboard video as dr. williams was ill) Communication is most successful when each participant confirms the identity of the other. Created in spurts, not equally or smoothly over time, there is no orderly process of creating them. We are placed into certain identity categories from birth, and the way we are raised affirms our identities. People can rebel against the identities that society places upon them. Developed in different ways by people of different cultures. According to this theory, we are always performing in order to control how others perceive us. Example: we chose what to post on our social media accounts in order to put forth a certain version of our real lives to others: social science perspective on identity. The social science approach says that identity is created by the individual and partly in relation to group membership. Family most valued in collectivist societies.
