Visual Arts Studio 1020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ascribed Status, Social Stratification, Nail Polish

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16 Oct 2011

School

Western University

Department

Visual Arts Studio

Course

Visual Arts Studio 1020

Professor

Kim Luton

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Language is gendered and works to reproduce the gendered order. Linguistic sexism: tendency to communicate sexist messages: it"s easy simple, wasn"t hard, he"s easy relaxed, laid back, she"s easy slut/whore. Sexual connotation associated with neutral words: connotation she"s easy she"s an easy lay. We characterize what we own (possessions) as feminine: the other women was the name of a boat. Language defines men and women in 3 ways: control, value, attention. Sex is determined at conception as a result of cell formation. 1-3 % of babies are intersexed: hormonal therapy is used to force them into a sex (until 1995) Often changed to females: now, often they let the children wait unless after puberty and let them choose. Shows our discomfort with not knowing sex. Set of social attitudes that can vary from culture to culture and over time within a society.

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1. Understanding the Nature of Communication

The same process that applies to everyday communication applies to communication in the workplace. Understanding the steps in this process can help you craft more meaningful and effective messages.

Which parts of the communication process are described in the following scenario?

Helene types a brief informational update for the members of the budget committee into an e-mail message and hits âsend.â

While typing the e-mail message, Helene is engaged in .

A. idea information

B. message encoding

C. message transmission

By hitting the send icon, Helene is engaged in .

A. message transmission

B. message decoding

C. message encoding

For the communication process to be successful, the receiver must understand the information sent by the sender. Communication barriers, however, can complicate the process. Familiarizing yourself with common obstacles will make you better equipped to avoid them.

Consider this situation, and answer the questions that follow.

One of your engine lathes has broken down, and youâve contacted a local repair shop. When you go to the shop, the repairman doesnât speak English, and one of the front office employees is trying to translate. âHe says he canât fix it,â the translator says to you.

âWhat seems to be wrong with it?â you ask, and the office employee translates this question to the repairman. The repairman points at several mechanisms on the lathe and gives what appears to be a lengthy explanation of the problem. You turn to the office employee, who shrugs. âHe says itâs broken,â she says.

What communication barrier is described in this situation?

A. Differing frames of reference

B. Bypassing

C. Lack of language skills

How might you overcome this communication barrier in the future?

A. Ask simple, specific questions.

B. Speak loudly.

C. Ask for an explanatory slide presentation.

Macropoland is currently experiencing a recession - consumption and investments are very sluggish, and unemployment is quite high at 9%. Currently, inflation is very low at 0.4% (the historical average rate of inflation is about 2%). The Macropolish President has just hired you as her economic advisor. Your job is to prescribe policies that would enable the economy to recover from the recession. Explain how you could use the standard tools of expansionary monetary policy and expansionary fiscal policy to stimulate this economy towards economic growth.

Develop a response that includes examples and evidence to support your ideas, and which clearly communicates the required message to your audience. Organize your response in a clear and logical manner as appropriate for the genre of writing. Use well-structured sentences, audience-appropriate language, and correct conventions of standard American English.

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In this activity answer questions about two TED Talk lecturesonline; one by Patricia Kuhl , co-director of the Institute forBrain and Learning Sciences at the University of Washington and oneby MIT cognitive scientist Deb Roy.

First watch (transcript also available) TED Talk by PatriciaKuhl, "The Linguistic Genius of Babies"

http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies

and answer the following questions:

(1) Summarize what Patricia Kuhlâs lab is studying?

(2) What do the Japanese and English and Mandarin and Englishexperiments with babies demonstrate?

(3) What might the practical benefits of Patricia Kuhlâsresearch be? In other words, how might this kind of research helppeople?

Next, watch (transcript also available) TED Talk by Deb Roy,"The Birth of a Word"

http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word?language=en4

and answer the following questions:

(1) What do you think Deb Roy means by "feedback loops" in hisdiscussion of his sonâs language acquisition?

(2) What do you think Deb Roy means by the term wordscapes?

(3) In his talk, Deb Roy states:

"As our world becomes increasingly instrumented and we have thecapabilities to collect and connect the dots between what peopleare saying and the context they're saying it in, what's emerging isan ability to see new social structures and dynamics that havepreviously not been seen. It's like building a microscope ortelescope and revealing new structures about our own behavioraround communication. And I think the implications here areprofound, whether it's for science, for commerce, for government,or perhaps most of all, for us as individuals."

What do you think might be some of the implications?

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