COMM 2303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mutual Intelligibility, Carpool, Collectivism

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2303
• Professor: Margaret Williams

Document Summary

Trying to understand one"s own culture is like trying to explain to a fish that it lives in water. It"s hard to see your own culture from an outsider"s perspective, you are so used to your environment you can"t really see the whole picture, see it as anything different. Culture learned patterns of behavior and attitudes shared by a group of people. Three approaches to define culture: social science. Culture is a set of learned group related perceptions. Programming of the mind the ways that you are raised shape your perception in the way you think about the world. Focus not on culture but on the influence. Collective experience: it is shared with people who live in and experience the same differences that result from culture of culture on communication;communication social environments. Culture is learned and shared and actions of others in our own cultural surroundings. Embodied ethnocentrism feeling comfortable and familiar in the spaces, behaviors,