1. No one really knows who was the first or when the first form of communication was established. Some might say as far back as around 4100-3800 BC. One of the earliest forms of communication was a cuneiform writing style with symbols on clay that represented records for land‚ grain‚ or livestock. Other excavations dating back to prehistoric times were that of old drawings in caves that depicted a story. Most drawings had something to do with food supply or the hunting of animals because wherever
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SOC 101 Principles of Sociology: Midterm Study Guide This study guide is designed to alert you to the topics/issues that may appear on the midterm exam. You should use it to direct your studying. In other words‚ do not study from the guide‚ but from your in-class notes and reading notes‚ with the study guide as a roadmap. The midterm is on Thursday‚ October 11. All you need to bring is a pen or two. • • • • • History of sociological thought o August Comte – stages of human understanding
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Dialogical/Two-Step/Interaction Model Transactional Model Transmission Model Ritual Model Mediated Communication Unmediated CMNS: Intrapersonal CMNS Interpersonal CMNS Group CMNS Mediated CMNS: Dialogic CMNS Mass mediated CMNS Proxemics Kinesics Haptics What communication carries – truth or ideas? Mad Men and representations of history Occupy Law & Order and representations of reality Political communication and Badlipreads (Mitt Romney) Three Ways of Knowing
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dancing monkey‚ and has no idea what she wants in her life. Father says he shows his love for his family by providing for them. He said part of his role is to tell his daughter what she wants‚ because she is too young to know for herself. Objective Proxemic behavior suggests mother and daughter allied against father (mother and daughter sit together‚ father sits alone. Mother and daughter use the word
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Joyce Simmons March 13‚ 2011 Week Two Journal 1.Describe the qualities that make a good interviewer. Which of these do you think is more important and why? By having the ability to send and receive messages to the person that you are interviewing in a way that they can understand is a quality that an interviewer should possess (Gosselin‚ p- 13). An interviewer should not be cold and standoffish‚ or be on the defense or apathetic
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Communicative Competence What is Communicative Competence? Hymes The ability to interpret messages and negotiate meaning within specific contexts. Savignon An interpersonal construct examined by means of overt performance of two or more people in the process of communication. James Cummins (1980) CALP Cognitive/Academic Language Proficiency Context Reduced * Surface features of language * Focus on form * Used for classroom exercises * Communicative capacity of language
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wants to speak‚ and the mood of the group (engaged or disinterested). (Heathfield‚ 2014) Similarly‚ the distance or space between sender and receiver can be a form of nonverbal communication. Edward T. Hall‚ an anthropologist‚ coined the phrase "proxemics" when discussing "space bubble" between senders and receivers. Depending on the situation‚ various messages can be sent by this type of nonverbal communication. Entering someones personal space (touching to 1 and 1/2 feet away) may be interpreted
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times work hand in hand but they also differ in many ways. Verbal communication mainly deals with the dialogue‚ voice tone‚ cadence ( how we say what we say)‚ and written language. Nonverbal communication is more complex‚ it involves gestures‚ proxemics (distance between speakers)‚ body contact‚ posture‚ facial expressions and eye contact (Swan J‚ Deumert A‚ Lillis T‚ Mesthrie R‚ 2004). Electromagnetic energy and voice tone also play a very important part of nonverbal communication. According
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The Seven Stages of Grieving co-written by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman is an emotionally powerful play about the grief of Indigenous people and the hope of reconciliation. It is presented a series of theatrical episodes that follow the journey of an Aboriginal woman. The contemporary play shares true and personal stories and focuses on the issues that separate and unite Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. This play uses many techniques and conventions to convey the problems raised‚ and I believe
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of how they were feeling about the situation they were in while interacting with another person. Walking into Starbucks to begin my ethnography‚ the first interaction I see are a guy and a girl who I assumed as being a couple by their intimate proxemics. As I walked past the two I overheard the girl say‚ in a melancholic tone‚ “but you can’t be doing that all the time”. When I finally
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