EDS210H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Millennials, Androgyny, Acculturation
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Chapter 4- interpersonal communication and diversity: adapting to others. Diversity creates the potential for misunderstanding and even conflict stemming from the different ways we make sense of the world and share that sense with others. Gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, age and social class. Sex: biologically based differences that determine whether one is male or female. Gender: socially learned and reinforced characteristics that include one"s biological sex and psychological characteristics (femininity, masculinity, androgyny) Androgynous: combination of feminine and masculine traits. Deborah tannen- men and women belong to different cultural groups. Men often communicate to report, women often communicate to establish rapport. Those who hold negative attitudes towards gays and lesbians are less likely to have interpersonal communication with gays or lesbians. Be sensitively other-oriented as you interact with those whose sexual orientation from your own. Race: genetically transmitted physical characteristics of a group. Skin colour, body type, hair colour and texture as well as facial attributes.
