COMS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Masculinity, Collectivism, Femininity

• School: Ohio University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 1010
• Professor: Dan West

Document Summary

Is communication between individuals and groups who are perceived or experience as unalike culturally in terms of group members, such as nationality, race, and ethnicity, and regionality. A unique combination of rituals, religious beliefs, ways of thinking and ways of behaving that unify a group of people. How people make sense of their worlds and figure out what to : pay attention to, ignore, guide their behavior, dish towels (cid:1) Individualism vs. collectivism: collectivism is people working together to achieve a group goal. Power distance represents how you treat someone in a power or non power. Culture can be a site of struggle and contested meaning. A site of struggle is where various communication meanings are contested. The enactment and negotiation of social identification of groups members that demonstrates their membership in a group (cid:1) (cid:1) Is determined by who has the power and influence in a group.