Communication and Globalization Flashcards
Describes the growing interdependence of the world’s economies, cultures, and populations. It involves the proliferation of connections among societies and people.
Globalization
The process by which a social relation, called a territory, has its current organization and context altered, mutated or destroyed.
Deterritorialization
Drivers of Globalization:
- Colonization
- Diaspora
- Technologies
Marks the beginnings of Globalizations. It has shaped countries’ social, economic, and educational systems without being disconnected from their own countries’ local methods.
Colonization
A phenomenon that refers to people’s movement and inhabitation in countries outside of their own. Also called migration.
Diaspora
Exposes people to various political, economic, and social systems on micro and macro levels. Has immensely facilitated globalization in this way.
Technologies
How does globalization affect communication?
A need for a common language to achieve international intelligibility is germane.
The global language, or the “decto lingua franca”
English
The recognition and valuing of different encompassing factors. These may include age, gender, race, ethnicity, ability, religion, education, marital status, sexual orientation, and income.
Diversity
What happens when communicators fail to become sensitive to cultural differences and nuances?
Communicators may face grave consequences to one’s self and to the group one belongs in.
A learned system of meanings that fosters a particular sense of shared identity-hood and community-hood among its group members.
The customs, knowledge, belief, values, behaviors, arts, and the like of a particular nation, people, or social group.
Culture
Made up of members of the same general culture but differ in certain ethnic or sociological ways
Co-Cultures
The process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group.
E.g. the minority group speaks the dominant language instead of their native language to fit in
Cultural Assimilation
The process by which individuals may take on values and beliefs of the dominant culture and accommodate them in public spaces, while maintaining their parent culture/identity in private spheres.
Cultural Accommodation
Members of a co-culture resist instead of fitting in with the dominant or majority.
The minorities try to be recognized and acknowledged by the general culture as a unique and equal culture of its own.
Resistance or Separation
A style in which individuals have developed a pattern of avoiding expressing their opinions or feelings, protecting their rights, and identifying and meeting their needs.
Passive
A style in which individuals clearly state their opinions and feelings, and firmly advocate for their rights and needs without violating the rights of others.
Assertive
A style that tends to anger, create unnecessary conflict, and damage relationships at home or work
Confrontational
A discipline that studies communication across different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects communication.
Describes the wide range of communication processes and problems that naturally appear within an organization or social context made up of diverse individuals.
Intercultural Communication
Occurs when interactants are of different races
Interracial Communication
Occurs when the communicating parties have different ethnic origins
Interethnic Communication
Occurs between persons representing political structures
International Communication
Includes all forms of communication among members of the same racial, ethnic, or other co-cultural groups
Intracultural Communication
An evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture.
A person sees their own culture as the correct way of living and judges other people’s cultures.
Ethnocentrism
The opposite of Ethnocentrism, this is the idea that a person’s beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture, rather than judged against the criteria of another.
Cultural Relativism
Variables used to differentiate or distinguish cultures
Cultural Dialectics
This Cultural Dialectic reveals how people define themselves in their relationship with others. Some people or cultures are more likely to value their own well-being over the good of the group, while other groups might sacrifice their own comfort for the greater good of everyone else
Individualism vs Collectivism
Cultures with _____ communication systems are tradition-bound which shapes the behavior and lifestyle of group members.
High-context
Cultures with _____ communication systems are generally encourage members to exhibit a more direct communication style.
Low-context
It measures the extent to which individuals accept power differences
Power Distance
_____ cultures view power as a fact of life and are apt to stress its coercive or referent nature
High-power Distance
_____ cultures believe power should be used only when it is legitimate, thus are apt to employ expert or legitimate power
Low-power Distance
Cultures differ in their attitudes toward gender roles
Masculine vs. Feminine Cultures
In these cultures, members value male aggressiveness, strength, and material symbols of success
Highly Masculine cultures
In these cultures, members value relationships, tenderness in members of both sexes, and high quality of life
Highly Feminine cultures
A mistaken idea or belief many people have about a thing or group based upon how they look, or culturally come from.
A type of prejudice.
Stereotypes
Using one’s race as grounds of suspecting a person of wrong acts
Racial Profiling
Those of other cultures are judged based on stereotypes and not on actual experience
Preconceived Opinions
When opinions on culture become biased and hurtful and they develop a mindset that their culture is better than others
Prejudice
