SOC 101 Midterm: CMN2181 Midterm 1 Notes.docx

• School: Bishop's University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Andre Champagne

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He said: the essence of culture is culture is communication and the essence of communication is culture. He believed that the essence to understanding how a people communication is the key to understanding them (and their culture) o. ** ray birdwhistell: communication can be defined as a system of integrated behaviors that calibrate, regularize, maintain, and make possible relations between humans. Therefore we can see that communication is the mechanism of social organization and the transmission of information is the mechanism of communicative behavior (i. e. clothing, gestures, hairstyles, etc). Communication is the matrix which encompasses all human activity. exchanging meanings or symbolic resources. : a group of people who have similar genetic factors relating to. 1971 - policy on multiculturalism passed physical features like skin and eye colour, hair characteristics, and stature. : describes the historical origins and cultural, religious, linguistic and geographical environment from which a person or a person"s ancestors have come.