Chapter 1 – Culture and Communication The Importance of Learning about Culture * Two importanat reasons for understanding culture are to learn how others make sense of their environment and the prevent mistakes and miscommunication 1. Make Sense of Our World 2. The works if Becoming Increaseingly Diverse 3. People around the world ARE different * People from different cultures are different (as well as similar) in how they see the world. * Cultures are the products of
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of consumption is that modern identities are structured around their experience‚ and in this case our consumption of trends. When we consume there are two things we get‚ the material element (the actual cultural product) and a symbolic element (the values and status the product portrays and ensnares us with); one must consider the rhetoric of the image the product depicts‚ beyond the object denoted there is a complex web of cultural connotations. Part of my investigation focused on designer versus
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Part 1: an individual essay on how values affect individual and organizational behavior Values The topic of values has become a plethora item of debate in many areas‚ particularly in the field of organization behavior. Values can be defined as the basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or end- state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite and converse mode of conduct or end state of existence (M. Rokeach‚ 1973). Value predicts various aspects of individual’s
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After the Great Depression and WWII‚ people turned to music for joy. A simplistic style of happy‚ feel-good music that was innocent and meant to be non-offending to it’s listeners. People were not expressing their true feelings and they had to fit a ‘role’ in American society. By the time the baby boomer generation was growing up‚ they had different experiences in their lives and had different ideals than their parents in the Great Generation. They expressed themselves through Rock and Roll. Elvis
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CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION While studying culture and communication‚ it is found that gender is an important factor that makes a difference in communication. Using evidences and examples from local and international‚ highlight and explain those differences. ‘For men and women‚ communication can be a very long drive‚ using different roads most probably to get to the same place.’ Having said that‚ it would be appropriate to first give a definition of the word communication followed by what gender
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How is Stuart Hall’s “encoding/decoding” model an advance on the traditional “transmission” model of communication? How does it change conventional views of how media products are consumed? As a transmission theory scholar studying in mass-communication research‚ Hall put forward “encoding and decoding “model which brings big effects and shocks the traditional transmission model. The traditional model divides the message sending into three parts‚ sender- message- receiver. It is called linearity
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expansion of business across so many borders there is a greater amount of interaction between cultures that previously‚ did not communicate. This can cause a great deal of confusion and require businesses to update their understanding and appreciation for the differences between cultures. Cultures vary widely throughout the world‚ and with these variations in culture come differences in communication style and expectations. Through a greater understanding of cultural differences and a greater
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Cultural Communication Cultural communication is an ever-evolving study that will always impact our society in several different ways. From the moment we are born we have our own identity‚ but placed into a judgmental society with expectations‚ classes‚ and prejudice. Everyone falls into a different category‚ and how we react with others in different categories varies. The way we are raised‚ our past‚ media‚ and our environment all play a part when we communicate with each other. Cultural communication
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outspoken writings and loud rock concerts‚ American counterculture was loudly expressed and changed America to what it is today. The Beat generation was a group authors who explored and influenced American culture through literature in the post-World War II era. The Beat writers were prominent in the 1950’s and their culture included experiencing with new drugs‚ explored new Eastern religions‚ and rejected materialism. One of
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Individual communication is one-on-one interaction with another. Individual communication allows for continuous feedback based on each person’s input. The communication that takes place between two individuals is very specific to each other’s responses. Since the flow of communication is continuous‚ individuals have a better understanding of each others thoughts and opinions and can respond directly back to each other. In contrast‚ group communication is contact between more than two people in
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