101 revision[attempt]

ch 8.
4 principles of communication in cultures.
man i am alr sleepy. cant blame me. i studied till 630 am. amazing how little i got done.
but sleepy all the same.
only had 40 minutes of sleep.

culture is a system.
all parts of a system are interrelated.
they continually interact with one another and affect one another.
changing one aspect changes the entire system(is this under tis point?)

systems are organised wholes.
should not take any aspect/part in isolation.
need to be understood in a larger context.

culture strives to maintain equilibrium, but cannot.
there are constant changes
changes can be abrupt or gradual.
cultures tend to resist change, which explains why we are so reluctant to break away from habits.

i tink thee other point says something like that...
it is constantly changing as it gains new members, loses members.
new elements emerge.
bt i dun remember!

oh my god my brain is jammed.
seriously.
need to sleep. i will hopefully wake up with a clearer mind!

then after that it is the 5 ways that communication and culture are linked right?
we learn culture while communicating.
communication mirrors ur culture.

there are many social groups within a culture.
the co-cultures influence communication too.
for example the whole gender thing, which i find very interesting by the way.
standpoint theory: social communities influence the perspectives, beliefs and values.. blah blah?

communication can cause cultural changes.
most cultural changes start with communicating about it.

2 more.
oh oh.

communication perpetuates culture?

4 way to adapting to cultural diversity.
dun be ethnocentric.
person centredness.
it is a process-5 step

resisting
tolerating
understanding
respecting
partcipating.

there is a culture relativism theory somewhere, that just says that cultures vary and we are not supposed to judge other cultures using our own culture
there is assimilation, w curve,

dun remember alr.
i could tell u about the concepts of self, which i am much more sure of, but i am dying.
later then.
finishing the 4 chapters and re revising everything!