COMM 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intercultural Communication, Morrill Land-Grant Acts, Jonathan Haidt
28 Nov 2016
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Why is the alamo famous: same houston was still trying to gather his army to attack the mexicans. There are issues that people see with different lenses. The way we talk about things matter. What kind of facts, history, values you draw from a situation. Objectivists: we can understand the social world, knowledge accumulate, searches for regularities that predict, separate knower and known (scientific method) Ontology (way of the world, nature of social reality) social. Jonathan haidt (ted talk: psychologist, realist. Ideology and openness: the first draft of the moral mind. And the point: our righteous minds were designed, unite use into teams, passionate to change the world and make a better future. Blank states: care, fairness, loyalty, authority/respect, sanctity/purity. Confirmation bias: you only seek people/information that you want to hear or you agree with. Does objectivity exist: yes in some senses, but for the most part it does not. What is an opinion: some opinions can be outstanding.
