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Chapter 3 Flashcards

1
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What are the 5 ways that communication is interconnected with identity?

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  1. Our identity influences the communication we will use in an interaction
  2. Interactions help shape the identities of the participants.
  3. Identity is prominent in expectations and behaviors during intercultural communication.
  4. In the US, we communicate in a very identity-based climate
  5. Individual and societal forces converge within the concepts of identity and meaning-creation in communication
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Individual and social categories people identity with as well as those categories that are attributed to them by others

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Identity

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3
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Two kinds of identities:

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  1. Primary identities

2. Secondary identities

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Consistent and enduring identifications in our lives

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Primary identities

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Stem from roles or characteristics that are more likely to change over the course of our lives

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Secondary identities

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Identities can exist at the ____ level or the ____ level

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Individual level or societal level

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At this level of identity, people are focused on their differences from other individuals

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Individual level

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At this level of identity, people are focused on the differences of groups they belong to from other groups they do not belong to

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Societal level

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9
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Identity is both ___ and ____, which means?

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Fixed and dynamic
- Although a classification may apply throughout someone’s life, the meaning and nuance of that classification may change over time

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10
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Identities are shaped through what?

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Interactions with others

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Identities are tied to what kind of environments?

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Historical, social, and cultural

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12
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Identity develops through ? , a process than can be explain in several ways

  1. Identity development through communication
  2. Performance of individual identity
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communication with others

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13
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This states that meaning is found only through social interaction with others

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Symbolic interactionism

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14
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A term used to explain how people’s sense of self stems from their observations of the way others view them

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Reflected appraisals

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15
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The concept of reflected appraisals is also called

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the looking-glass self

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The appraisals of ____ _____ are important people in our lives that affect our reflected-appraisals

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particular others

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The appraisals of ___ ____ are the collective appraisals of communities we belong to and help define who we are

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generalized others

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18
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Our evaluation of whether aspects of our identity are desirable is established through a process of

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social comparison

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19
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Evaluations of ourselves in relation to certain reference groups

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Social comparison

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20
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Explicit communication about expectations that shape our understanding of who we are and what roles we are expected to fulfill

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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Subtly reminding individuals of stereotypical identity expectations that can affect their performance

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Stereotype threat

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Refers to our fairly stable understanding of our unique characteristics based on previous interactions with others

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Self-concept

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Refers to how positively or negatively we view the characteristics that make up our identities

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Self-esteem

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Self-esteem can change over time, but may be resistant to change due to what pattern?

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A pattern of accepting appraisals that match our current level of self-esteem

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25
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Self-esteem is not always consistent with how others see us; this depends on how much ____ we internalize from others and which aspects of our ____ we ____ in interaction

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Feedback

identity ; communicate

26
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Another component of self-concept that indicates one’s expectations for and enactment of respectful treatment of self and others

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Self-respect

27
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We are doing what when we communicate our sense of self to others (through things like how we dress)?

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Performing identities

28
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Performance studies is a branch of communication studies which focuses on the ways people ____ _____ through communication

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Enact identities

29
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The ___ _____ others hold for us influence which aspects of identity we are likely to enact

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Role expectations

30
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Identities are mutable, meaning?

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They’re subject to change

31
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Because identities are _____, we change the aspects of our identities that we enact as we grow and move into different situations

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Mutable

32
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What exerts a strong influence on individuals, to the point that people may feel strongly pressured to change the identity they enact?

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Societal expectations

33
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What are the 9 identities?

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  1. Racial identity
  2. National identity
  3. Ethnic identity
  4. Gender identity
  5. Sexual identity
  6. Age identity
  7. Social class identity
  8. Disability identity
  9. Religious identity
34
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Develops as a result of societal forces and categorizations which vary from country to country. Has been historical defined by hereditary physical aspects of appearance but in truth has little scientific distinction anymore

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Racial identity

35
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A term that acknowledges that some people have more than one racial identity

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Multiracial identity

36
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Differs from racial identity because it reflects a person’s citizenship

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National identity

37
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Based solely on social groups, rather than any concept of genetic similarity. Individuals may feel a strong affiliation with the expectations or communication patterns of an ethnic group.

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Ethnic identity

38
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Reflects a person’s identification with the social constructions of masculinity and femininity

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Gender identity

39
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Refers to identification with various categories of sexuality that one identifies with

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Sexual identity

40
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Reflects the adoption of societal expectations for a person’s age, as well as that person’s feelings about his or her age

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Age identity

41
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Based mainly on a combination of factors like income, education, occupation, dwelling, and child-rearing habits

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Social class identity

42
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Similar social class identity seems to correspond to

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Similar world views

43
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Refers to having an impairment of some sort, whether visible or not

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Disability identity

44
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Based on a person’s spiritual beliefs and background

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Religious identity

45
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Identities are _____-___; our communication reflects our values about our own and others’ identities

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Value-laden

46
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We should be wary of doing what?

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Reducing people to stereotypes based on one aspect of their identity

47
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How we communicate to and about others can influence what?

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Identity expectations and identity performance

48
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Who a person is; composed of individual and social categories a person identifies with, as well as the categories that others identify with that person

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Identity

49
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The idea that people’s self images arise primarily from the ways that others view them and from the many messages they have received from others about who they are

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Reflected appraisals

50
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The idea that self-image results from the images others reflect back to an individual

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Looking-glass self

51
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The important people in an individual’s life whos opinions and behavior influence the various aspects of identity

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Particular others

52
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The collection of roles, rules, norms, beliefs, and attitudes endorsed by the community in which a person lives

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Generalized other

53
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When an individual expects something to occur, the expectation increases the likelyhood that it will, as the expectation influences behavior

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

54
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The process or means by which we show the world who we think we are

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Performance of identity

55
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Influencing others’ impressions by creating an image that is consistent with one’s personal identity

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Self-presentation

56
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Performing scripts deemed proper for particular identities

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Enacting identities

57
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The expectation that one will perform in a particular way because of the social role occupied

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Role expectations

58
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A person’s citizenship

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National identity

59
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Identification with a particular group with which one shares some or all of these characteristics: national or tribal affiliation, religious beliefs, language, and/or cultural and traditional origins and background

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Ethnic identity

60
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Which of the various categories of sexuality one identifies with

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Sexual identity

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