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Focus Questions. How does cultural membership affect communication? What are social communities? How do culture and social communities shape individuals’ communication? How does gender affect communication? How do people commonly respond to differences in communication?.

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  1. Focus Questions • How does cultural membership affect communication? • What are social communities? • How do culture and social communities shape individuals’ communication? • How does gender affect communication? • How do people commonly respond to differences in communication? Adapting Communication to People and Contexts

  2. Adaptation as a Basic Communication Process • Sensitive to particular people and contexts • One-size fits all? (See “Myra & Aaron” example) • Other examples (contexts, & people) • Age / Gender • Relationship (family, work, negotiation,….) • Educational background / Social status • Race / Nationality Adapting Communication to People and Contexts

  3. Communication is “Systemic” • Occurs in contexts, and are affected by contexts. • Can’t be understood without examining contexts • All parts of communication systems are interrelated • Communication systems are organized wholes Adapting Communication to People and Contexts

  4. Communication is “Systemic”-(2) • Communication systems are more than the sum of their parts • System evolves, discards, creates • Interactions create new elements • Openness: a system affects and is affected by outside factors and processes. Systems vary. Adapting Communication to People and Contexts

  5. Communication is “Systemic”-(3) • Communication systems strive for but cannot sustain equilibrium • State of equilibrium (homeostasis) • Routines, rituals, norms, habits, traditions… • No absolute equilibrium. Change is inevitable. • System members continuously adjust and change. Adapting Communication to People and Contexts

  6. A Culturally Diverse World • We learn culture in the process of communication • Culture: Definition…a way of life. • Both conscious & unconscious, continuous internalization • Multiple cultures and social communities may coexist in a single geographic location • Mainstream: dominant • Standpoint: the social, symbolic, and material circumstances of a particular social group… • Social communities: groups of people within a dominant culture also belong to another social group(s) • Subculture; Co-culture Adapting Communication to People and Contexts

  7. A Culturally Diverse World -(2) • Cultures and social communities develop distinct forms of communication • Eastern-western; boy-girl; men-women • Communication expresses and sustains cultures • Communication is a source of cultural change • Ways of naming things • Environmental racism; environmental justice • Date rape; sexual harassment Adapting Communication to People and Contexts

  8. Guidelines for Adapting Communication • Engage in person-centered communication • Respect what others present as their feelings and ideas • Resist ethnocentric bias • Ethnocentrism • Cultural relativism Adapting Communication to People and Contexts

  9. Guidelines for Adapting Communication -(2) • Recognize that adapting to diversity is a process (common responses below…) • Resistance • Assimilation; Surrendering; Melting-pot • Tolerance • Open-mindedness, accepting difference • Understanding • Respect • Participation • Multilingual Adapting Communication to People and Contexts

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