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#2. How does cultural context affect communication?
Cultural context affects communication greatly because cultures in one country differ from cultures in another country. There are two kinds of cultural context; high-context culture and low-context culture. “In a high-context culture people rely less on the explicit content of the message and more on the context of the nonverbal actions and environmental setting to convey meaning” (Bov`ee pg 11). In a simpler way this means that high-context cultures focus on nonverbal cues and are very affectionate versus low-context cultures focus on verbal cues. “In a low-context culture people rely more on the explicit content of the message and less on circumstances and cues to convey meaning” (Bov`ee pg 11).
#3. Define ethics and explain what ethical communication encompasses.
Ethics is not just doing what is right and wrong but it is doing what is right and wrong morally. If a teacher decides to give a student an undeserved grade in the class in exchange for money, that is not ethical but it is ethical for a ...
Starting the 1870s up until the 1900s provided a time period in which the Post-Civil War United States faced the Gilded Age, which was a time where large businesses were growing drastically and America’s ‘success’ clouded their real issues. Such an expansion with these large corporations boosted the amount of goods manufactured, calling for many more underpaid workers, and led to the spurring wealth America got to face. All of this ‘success’ was the so called thin layer of gold that laid over the real issues of the United States, and that was that there began to be a full blown corruption tied to businesses and politics. Once people got to see what really laid underneath what the news reports were not sharing with them, thanks to muckrakers, they responded by trying to form political and economical organizations that aimed to suppress the influence of the big businesses.
When you hear the word "ethics," what is the first thing that comes to mind? Having to make the decision of doing what is right versus doing what is wrong. Some idealists say that decisions of ethics should not be conditional. However, that is not as simple as it may sound. What constitutes "right" to one person may be "wrong" to anther; what clearly distinguishes the line between right and wrong? What some may look at as being unethical does not necessarily make it illegal.
Ethics is a doing and learning experience which causes us as humans to keep an open mind to change. Generally, ethics ask us to live mindfully, to think how we act and even how we feel or do things, which can change the outcome. Sometimes we go down certain roads, which may be harder or make things more complicated or complex instead of making an easier option we just take the easier way out, usually the way that calls for
Jensen (2016) has a chart in his article, “Personality Traits and Nonverbal Communication Patterns,” that provides a good visual describing the differences between high context cultures and low context cultures. High context cultures have a greater reliance on context and nonverbal communication than verbal communication. This means that high context cultures have more indirect verbal communication. Thus, the low context cultures have more direct verbal communication with less emphasis on context and nonverbal communication. “Nonverbal communication takes place in specific cultural contexts and is influenced by cultural norms. Cultural norms are social rules for what certain types of people should and should not do” (Chang, 2015). Blahova (2015) found that physical distance is very close and typical of Latin American or Mediterranean nations. Touching, hugging or even kissing business partners is quite typical there. Some Asian cultures, on the other hand, avoid physical contacts with partners. This even means shaking hands is unacceptable, and is replaced by bowing in Japan and China. The angle of the bow is subject to cultural differences and the partner’s rank in the corporate hierarchy, according to Blahova (2015). “Eye contact is important in all cultures, although rules differ about who looks at whom and for how long” (Blahova, 2015, p. 16). In some cultures, respect is often
In its most basic form, communicating involves a sender who takes his or her thoughts and encodes them into verbal and non-verbal messages that are sent to a receiver. The receiver than decodes the messages and attempts to understand what the sender meant to communication. The communication is completed when the receiver transmits verbal and nonverbal feed back to indicate his or her reception and understanding of the message. This process takes place within a context; also know as rhetorical situation, which includes all that affects the communication process such as the sender-receiver’s culture, the sender-receiver‘s relationship, the circumstances surrounding the sender-receiver’s interaction, and the physical environment of the interaction.
According to the textbook a high context culture is, “Culture in which people derive much information from nonverbal and environmental.” In high context culture the nonverbal and the environment are vital when it comes to communication with other people in that culture. Low context culture is, “Culture in which people derive much information from the words of a message and less information from nonverbal and environment.” Low context culture, words are more essential than the nonverbal
First of all, to identify the importance of context in cross culture communication is to follow it in stages. Context is the background information that one will use to create a realistic
Culture has always been a driving force in understanding nonverbal communication as nonverbal communication is highly influenced by the cultural differences as the context of the culture defines how the communication/message is interpreted in certain cultures. “Communication occurs within a context but the context is particularly important in relation to non-verbal communication” (Tyler, Kossen & Ryan, 2005, p.185). Culture defines the messages perceived by the non-verbal communication. For instance, proxemics. “Proxemics refers to the spatial relationship or how we use space.” (Tyler, Kossen & Ryan, 2005, p.190) Culture plays an important role in defining the use of one’s personal space in the nonverbal communication process. For example, in North America people usually remain at a distance from one another when talking while Latin American people stay very close when talking. (Wood, 2009). This defines the use of the privacy or personal space in two different cultures. H...
Ethics deals with actions with adequate standard of attitudes, behavior that is pleasing to the people or organizations. Every job has a code of ethical conduct that is supposed to be is followed. It is very necessary to understand that ethical rules must apply and obey with basis of what is right and wrong which is written in the law. That is why there are professions that have organizations or associations which have the method of ethical conducts or standard.
[1] Ethics is defined as “the code of moral principles and values that governs the behaviour of a person or a group with respect to what is right or wrong” (Samson and Daft, 2005, p.158)
The opportunity for universal application of the Communication Accommodation Theory gives the field of Communication Studies a method of objectively analyzing conversational strategies and motivations both of which are considered to be overwhelmingly subjective. The ways in which communicators of different cultures perceive one and other [as individuals or members of a group] varies greatly even in a two-person interaction. The number of cultural identifications one certain individual might possess may be numerous, and already makes structured analysis of their communication choices in an interaction difficult. By guiding the process of conducting research with CAT, researchers are able to analyze the communication behaviors of any set of cultural communicat...
Everything we do in our life involves communication because it is a way for a sender to send message to the receiver by verbal and non-verbal communication. However, in some parts of the world messages that are delivered sometimes are not received in a way it is supposed to. A way to solve this is by using competent communicator and intercultural communication because it makes it easier for people from other cultures to communicate in general. On the other hand, there are also some problems faced because different cultures have different ways to express their way of communication. By understanding these types of communication and by defining them may solve this dilemma. In addition to that, there are also types of communication to consider that are commonly used, which is Proxemics, Gestures and body language.
When asked what is the definition of ethics, many responded that being moral meant doing the right thing. But how can we justify what is a good action and what is a bad action? All humans were created equal, but our principles, and ways of thinking can be extremely different. Some may say doing the right thing means following your heart, your inner feelings and intuition. But emotions can be misleading. Others say in order to do what is the morally right thing means to follow the law and do what is right by society, to be accepted. But today’s society is judgmental and can be corrupted with numerous opinions due to the diversity of cultures. So what does it mean to be ethical? Being ethical means doing what is right in terms of virtues, fairness, duties, responsibilities, obligations, and moral believes all which derived from cultures and family backgrounds.
“Ethics are defined as a set of principles of right conducts; the rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession” ( Dictionary of the Human Language, 2000). Teachers are often put in situations that require more than just knowing the basic school rules. It is within these situations, that the ethical dilemmas occur. There is not always a right way to deal with many daily problems that face educators, but there are ways to handle situations that are better then others.
Ethics is simply doing the right thing. In the business situation ethics are the moral concept of a firm getting through it organizational duties ethically.