COM 439 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Interpersonal Communication, Media Imperialism, Culture Shock
27 May 2018
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Exam #3 Study Guide – Chapters 7, 8, 9
• Contact and non-contact cultures
• Polychromic and monochromic
• Regionalism
• Nationalism
• What nonverbal behavior does
• Impacts of pop culture
• Effects of pop culture
• Types of migrants/refugees
o Sojourner (short term, voluntary)
▪ Limited time for a specific purpose
▪ Have the means to travel
▪ Ex: International student, relocation for a job
o Immigrant (long term, voluntary)
▪ Comes to a region to settle permanently or for an extended period of
time
o Short term refugee (involuntary)
▪ Relocates because they can no longer stay at home
▪ Able to return after relocation
o Long term refugee (involuntary)
▪ Can no longer return home
▪ Ex: Syrian refugees
• Characteristics of migrants/refugees
• U curve model (Interpretive approach/theory of adaptation)
o What migrants go through when they come to a new culture
o Predictable phases migrants go through when experiencing a new culture
1. Excitement or anticipation
2. Shock and disorientation (culture shock comes into play here)
3. Adjustment
• W curve model
o Suggests that migrants experience another U curve when they come home
1. Reverse culture shock
2. Re-entry shock (migrant realizes that they have changed fundamentally as a
person)
3. Repatriation (come full circle back to where you were)
• Types of uncertainty
o Predictive uncertainty
o Explanatory uncertainty
• Assimilation
o The migrant wants a relationship with other groups and is welcome in the host
culture
o Gives up aspects of their own culture
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Document Summary
Exam #3 study guide chapters 7, 8, 9: contact and non-contact cultures, polychromic and monochromic, regionalism, nationalism, what nonverbal behavior does. Impacts of pop culture: effects of pop culture, types of migrants/refugees, sojourner (short term, voluntary, limited time for a specific purpose, have the means to travel, ex: international student, relocation for a job. Integration: value both your own and host culture, maintain original culture and daily interactions with other groups, segregation, host is forcing separation, transnational, migrating across one or more national boundaries, creates a multicultural identity. In between cultures due to frequent border crossings: differences in approaches to cultural adaptation + models of cultural adaptation, social scientific, focuses on the individual outcomes of adaptation, the anxiety and uncertainty management model (gudykunst) Interpretive: lived experience, critical, depends on the contextual influences, what pop culture is, (cid:862)lo(cid:449) culture(cid:863, types of entertainment that are enjoyed by the masses.
