COMM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Standpoint Theory, Metanarrative, Subculture
12 Apr 2016
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Up until now, the majority of our discussions have focused on intercultural comm as being between nation-cultures. Culture: a socially constructed and historically transmitted pattern of symbols, meanings, premises, and rules; complex webs of shared meanings. We can also think in terms of sub-culture: sub-culture: a cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger culture, tend to think about sub-cultures as being niches. Art-adjacent: punks/rockers; fandoms (anime, trekkies: but can be any demographic group: gender, age, race. More accurate to describe as cross-cultural examination. Part of information seeking in spt; part of identity in sit. But we are never defined by a single group. Standpoint theory allows us to account for the many different associations we have, and how these shape our worldview. This is an interpretive theory; an epistemological idea.
