Deck 2: What Is the Relationship Between Communication and Culture

Question 1

Explain the differences between Worldviews, Values, and Norms. Use examples.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Norms are an integral part of the social fabric. Identify two of your Norms and describe when you noticed that those norms are not the same for everyone.

Answer 2

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Question 3

What is the difference between Monolithic and Reflexive Forces when discussing various perspectives on the connection between culture and communication? With which do you most identify.

Answer 3

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Question 4

How do you respond when you encounter someone with communication that reflects different Worldviews, Values, or Norms than your own? Has your response changed since learning more about these cultural communication influences?

Question 5

What two characteristics identify a Norm as "important?" Give examples of those two characteristics.

Question 6

What are the three levels of Values and how do those levels contribute to cultural influence on communication?

Question 7

Are there people in your life who have a seemingly different use of time than your own? Use the terms Monochronic and Polychronic to describe your interactions, and be sure to explain what each term means.

Question 8

Are there specific contexts in which you prefer a large amount of personal space? Other contexts where you require less personal space? Use the terms associated with Proximity to discuss those differences, and identify any situations where you notice violations of Proximity norms.

Question 9

If I am _________________ oriented, I pay attention to time and schedules.

Question 10

People who see Language as _______________ tend to count on language to be direct and precise.

Question 11

If I tend to hold a Worldview of ______________ I see no need to have a person standing at a fruit stand to collect money. People will do the "right" thing and leave the correct amount of money on the "honor system."

Question 12

Which is not one of the questions answered by a worldview discussed in the text?

A) How should society be organized?
B) What should I eat tonight?
C) What is our relationship with nature?
D) Who am I?

Question 13

The ideas that people are born into their appropriate station in life and that they should not try to change this is referred to as:

A) High Context
B) Hierarchical
C) Monochronic
D) Ascription

Question 14

What is the relationship between culture and communication?

A) Causal
B) Monolithic
C) Reflexive
D) Informal

Question 15

Collectivism refers to a worldview that:

A) Focuses on one's relationships.
B) Values personal empowerment.
C) Values gathering as many goods as possible.
D) Focuses on debt to nature.

Question 16

If I have an egalitarian view of the world, I believe:

A) Nature must always be protected.
B) That no human is fundamentally better than another.
C) It is important to always have a clear leader.
D) Humans are basically good and that will never change.

Question 17

The text defines norms as:

A) The way the world typically is.
B) A belief about what is important in the world.
C) Consistent across all contexts.
D) Social rules for what people should and should not do.

Question 18

Norms are the most abstract of the three: worldviews, values, and norms.

Question 19

Worldviews are mostly conscious choices about how we communicate with others.

Question 20

Norms and Values are most noticed when they are violated.