Week 6- High/Low Culture & Indirect/Direct Communication Flashcards
How can we categorize different cultures?
Taxonomies can be used?
What is a taxonomy?
A box or category
What is high-to low context cultural taxonomy?
This is how direct or indirect communication is within a culture.
How does high-to low conext cultural taxonomy categorize cultures?
By the amount of information implied by the setting of communication itself that is regardless of the specific words spoken. It matters on how the information is received.
What is the cultural continuum that cultures exist on?
On a spectrum between high context and low context.
Can cultures be a mixture of high-context and low context? Or do they have to be one or the other?
Some cultures one or the other, or a mix of both.
What does it mean when high-context cultures prefer to use high-context messages?
The things that you say are not necessarily the things that it means. You are supposed to know the tones, and fluctuations, and clues.
What kind of context is for the deep south example the professor gave us?
” She is really busy, isn’t she?” It creates an implication.
Most communication during a high context setting is implied by what?
Physical setting, or presumed to be a part of individual’s internalized beliefs, values, norms, and social practices that are expected of you. # 7.02
Low context cultures use low context what?
Messaging. The things that you say are the things that you mean. Everything is explicit
Is explicit information in low-context messages of high context messages?
Low-context. It is embedded in the words themselves.
Communication that is implied by the physical setting is low context or high context?
High-context messaging.
In what culture are meanings internalized with lots of emphasis on verbal codes?
High context indirect message.
What context culture is connected to expressions that are taken for granted, assumed to be shared, and the preferred interpretation is already known?
High context culture.
“Bless your heart” is a phrase used where you assume that you already know the context. Is this a part of high context culture or low-context culture?
High-context culture
People look for behaviors in the messages that are plainly and explicitly coded. For examples: Think of the question ,” Howa re you doing?” What kind of context is this?
Low-context culture.
When details of the message are expressed specifically in the words that people use and very little communication is taken for granted. What kind of context culture communication is this?
Low-context culture.
When the speaker is responsible for explaining something, is this high or low-context culture?
Low-context culture. You would ask to clarify the information. In high context culture ; you are responsible for figuring something out.
Precision and specificality is associated with what culture?
Low-context.
Internalization and emphasis on nonverbal codes is associated with what culture?
High context culture.
What is an ingroup?
A group to which a person belongs.
What is an outgroup?
It is a group to which she or he doesn’t belong.
How many outgroups can there be in a situation?
Several
What is the importance of ingroups and outgroups?
Communication differs based on what group a person is associated with.
It is easy to determine who is a member of the ingroup in a high or low context culture.
It is easy to determine who is a member of the in group in a high context culture.
Why is it easier to determine membership of an ingroup in a high-context culture?
” They don’t get cultural cues, don’t look or talk like us.”
Whys is it more difficult to determine who is in the ingroup in low-context cultures?
Communication is more direct and when people need clarification, they ask.
You must understand cultural cues in what culture?
High-context culture.
True or False. Time works differently in both high and low context cultures. “ The orientation to time.”
True
How do high context cultures view time?
Time is more open and less structured.
If someone says they are coming around at 9:00 Am and they come around sometime in the morning, what culture is this?
High context culture
If someone says they are coming in the morning around 9:00AM and they come by exactly at 9:00 AM, what culture would this be?
Low-context culture. This is because in low context cultures you say what you mean.
If time is highly organized and people are forces to pay more attention fo time to complete the work of living with others is which culture?
Low-context culture.
Time is more regimented in what culture?
Low-context culture.
Commitment in this culture is strong, deep, familial, tribal, and old school.
High-context culture
Commitment in this culture is less involved, there is less commitment, it is more fluid, and it is easier to become a part of the ingroup. The extent of commitment is lower.
Low context culture.
