[COMN 2111] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (22 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 2111
• Professor: Dalton Kehoe

Document Summary

To meet interpersonal communication, we must create shared. A way of life that is learned and shared by groups of human beings. And taught by one generation to the next. Knowledge - how world is constructed and works (including. But sub-cultures within general culture -differ in some respects. Culture and communication: two key connections cultural values affect, what people talk about, how people talk. Summaries on web: hofstede, anderson in jandt, additional readings on course web site. Culture and communication: what people talk about. Individualist vs. collectivist cultures: how people talk, low vs. high context cultures, high immediacy (expressive of warmth, closeness, availability for. Culture and communication: low vs. high context, low vs. high immediacy, video example. Culture and sub-cultures: socialization is not a cookie cutter, everyone knows large values, variations in value emphasis and at level of norms, class (education, income, occupation, ethnicity (could include previous nationality, gender (cuts across all other boundaries)