SPC 1017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Relational Dialectics, Dialectic, Ethnocentrism
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Friday 18th @6:30-8:30: mancini"s band fundraiser. Q: the tendency to regard ourselves and our way of life as superiors to others. Q: three or more people who interact over time, depend on one another, and follow ____, ____ A: openness vs. closeness; novelty vs. predictability; autonomy vs. connection. Q: a group with a strong sense of collective identity. Q: four ways to deal with dialectical tension. Q: belief, understanding, practices and ways of interpreting experience that are shared by a number of people. Q: informal rules that guide how members of a culture act, think and feel. Q: a decision to remain in a relationship despite troubles, disappointments, and sporadic boredom. Q: something put into a relationship cannot be recovered. Q: groups of people who live within a dominant culture. Q: conception of what is time, factual, or valid. Q: this response transcends the apparent contradiction between two dialectic poles.