Culture can be defined as the patterns of learned behaviors, assumptions, symbols, and rules that are shared by a group and transmitted from one generation to the next through communication and social interaction. These shared elements influence a group's perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and acceptable behaviors, and are dynamic as they change over time in response to new problems or circumstances.
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Guided Response:
Consider ways in which you might like to interact with your peers. For example, what similarities or differences do you observe regarding how your peers perceive culture? Can you elaborate on the examples shared by your peers with your own examples or insight? Please be courteous and adhere to the rules of respectful engagement throughout your replies.
MONICA’S POST:
I used to think that culture was the values and beliefs of a group of people. But our text helps to understand what culture is. According to our text “culture is defined as the relatively specialized lifestyle of a group of people that is passed on from one generation to the next through communication not through genes” (Devito, J.A., 2016, Sec. 2.1). In order to understand culture we can look at values, beliefs, language, and their way of communicating. We must look at the differences from culture to culture such as is it individualistic or collectivist orientation, the power structure, masculinity and femininity, their tolerance for ambiguity, orientation and indulgence and restraint. (Devito, J.A., 2016). All of these factors influence communication. “One reason why culture is so important is that interpersonal competence is culture specific, what proves effective in one culture may prove ineffective in another” (Devito, J.A., 2016, Sec. 2.1). We may have certain attitudes about things based on the culture we were raised in. In order to communicate effectively these attitudes and beliefs must be set aside. We have to have an open mind and see things from others perspectives. I was raised in a family that instilled good morals and values in me, I am a spiritual person not a religious one and I find all religions have one thing in common putting others needs before our own. I see everyone as my equal and have a positive outlook on life. I am mindful and considerate of others perspectives.
Cultural orientation is important for interpersonal communication when working as a human service professional for many reasons. First what is effective in one culture may be ineffective in another. Understanding the values that other cultures hold helps to promote effective communication. Understanding the religious beliefs of others is beneficial as well. For example if I was working with a client with SUD who was an Atheist and told them to look into spirituality or religion to help them find sobriety this might be offensive to them. So knowing their religious beliefs would be helpful in communicating with this client. The more we understand other cultures the better we will be at interpersonal communication with those individuals.
References
Devito, J.A. (2016).
The interpersonal communication book
(14th ed) Retreived from https://content.ashford.edu
TAMEKA’S POST:
Culture is a set of values, beliefs, and attitudes (DeVito, 2019). It is passed down from one generation to the next and teaches ho.
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1. Towards an Understanding of Culture and Communication.
Definitions of ‘Culture’
1. [Culture is] “The shared system of symbolic knowledge and patterns of
behaviour, derived from speech communication, that human individuals carry to
provide predictable internal and external psychological stability so as to prevent
chaos among human individuals. We learn cultural codes for social life, role
expectations, common definitions of situations, and social norms in order to
provide predictability and survival of the human species. Human language
(spoken and written) is the symbolic ‘glue’ of human culture.”
Aldridge M G. (2002). What is the basis of Human Culture. Intercultural
Communication http://www.immi.se/intercultural/. [Cited Wall, S & Rees,
B. Introduction to International Business./ FT Prentice Hall.]
TJ.
• Evenly shared? 100% Buy-in?
• Only speech? (Do we judge people only by what they say or by what they
DO?).
• Society at large may ‘expect’…. But degree of conformity is up to the
individual and may change over time with age & experience.
• Are there not sub-cultures of non-conformist ‘deviant’ behaviour? (Drugs,
drinking, raves etc… but other more positive ones too???). If society
depends upon change / advancement – isn’t some unpredictability desirable?
Think: The Matrix… Neo was a deliberately introduced agent of change
into the programme to test it, extend it, refine it, re-make it. Think: why do
so many large companies have a positive external recruitment policy?…..To
challenge ‘received wisdom’ going ‘stale’ inside the corporate ‘box’.
Think: why do we have universities? Just to pass on the knowledge of the
last generation??? No! To give you (with our blessing and encouragement)
the opportunity to think about it, analyse it, evaluate it…. Then change it and
improve it!!!
• THE ABOVE VISION IS TOO ‘STATIC’.
2. “We can liken it [culture] to the air: it is everywhere, we cannot see it, but we
know it is there, we breathe it and we cannot exist without it. Culture is not a
biological necessity and we will not die if we are deprived of it. But it is rather
improbable, if not impossible for a person to be devoid of the traces of his or her
cultural upbringing and separated from his or her cultural context.”
Tyab, M. (2000). International Business: Theories, Policies & Practices.
FT/Prentice Hall. [Cited Wall, S & Rees, B. Introduction to International
Business. FT Prentice Hall.]
TJ.
• Ok…. You can ‘liken’ it… but it doesn’t say what it IS!
• ‘Deprived’ should get you thinking about Maslow’s ‘Heirarchy of Needs’.
If one simplified this to three layers: 1. Physiological. 2. Belonging. 3.
2. Self –Actualisation….. Culture clearly is the contextual bedrock for our
‘belonging’
3. “[Culture]…denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meaning embodied in
symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means
of which men communicate, perpetuate their knowledge about and attitudes
toward life.”
Geertz, C. (1973) Pg 89. The Interpretation of Culture. Basic Books New Yk.
[Cited: Martin, J N & Nakayama, TK (2003) Intercultural Communication in
Contexts. McGraw & Hill.] http://www.mhhe.com/martinnakayama/
TJ.
• Very simplistic!
• ‘Historically….inherited’…. still leaves the problem that there is a
difference between what we ‘inherit’ from our forebears and what we
‘bequeathe’ to our successors: so what is the mechanism by which culture
changes? We inherit all the mixed blessings of our parents’ genes in our
bodies, but we are not clones. We have free will…we choose - and
sometimes we don’t agree with our parents, reject conformity and subscribe
to a new personal perception and belief, which, when shared with friends
may become codified and distinctive. It may ‘catch on’ it may not. [Make
love not war… Flower Power 60s etc… and the ‘flower power generation
has had its children, passed on it’s wisdom and is now entering retirement
still wondering how they gave birth to Punk!]
• The view here is that culture is the means by which we communicate….
BUT it neglects the fact that ‘culture’ has to be transmitted…. And this IS a
communication process in itself.
4. “Every person carries within him or herself patterns of thinking, feeling, and
potential acting which were learned throughout his or her lifetime. Much of these
patterns are acquired in early childhood, because at that time a person is most
susceptible to learning and assimilating.”
Hofstede, G. (1997) Pg 4. Cultures & Organisations: software of the Mind.
[Revised Edn] Mc Graw Hill New Yk.
[Cited: Martin, J N & Nakayama, TK (2003) Intercultural Communication in
Contexts. McGraw & Hill.]
• TJ Learning is a process isn’t it? Is it just a lecturer reading at you? No.
Learning usually involves ‘teaching’ which goes far beyond one-way
communication. … It is an interactive, 2-way process…. I could teach my
heart out…but if you chose not to listen, chose not to ‘engage’ with me, your
fellow students and the subject, came with NIL interest and motivation –
how much learning would actually take place? Learning is more than
transfer of information: it is understanding, ownership (and through
application and reflection: wisdom). Learning is an exercise in: motivation;
attention; acquisition; perception; reflection; intention and application
• The very young are most susceptible to uncritical acceptance: yes, but the
growing sense of self which comes with the years always pits individuality
against interdependence …and possibly my rights against my
responsibilities to society. Culture and the codes that embody it are often
the means of resolving this tension.
3. • We are not ‘fixed’. With age and experience some black and white issues of
our youth become grey and likewise some grey issues black and white. So
as our changes are represented to peers and accepted or rejected cultural
shift.
5. “Culture is defined as a pattern of learned, group-related perception – including
both verbal and non-verbal language attitudes, values, belief system, disbelief
systems and behaviour.”
Singer, MR (1987) Pg 34. Intercultural Communication: A Perceptual
Approach. Prentice Hall.
[Cited: Martin, J N & Nakayama, TK (2003) Intercultural Communication in
Contexts. McGraw & Hill.]
I like the idea of ‘pattern’ (but is the pattern always clear....and does it look the
same to everyone?). ‘Learned’ is good too in that it suggests a means of culture’s
acquisition. ‘Group-related’ is good too, both in terms of how individuals perceive
groups, groups perceive individuals and groups perceive groups. ‘Verbal and non-
verbal’ is good too...because we perceive using ALL our senses. The list of
‘attitudes, values and beliefs/disbeliefs’ is good too, although I would perhaps have
preferred it in the order of values (because they lie at the core), then beliefs because
they codify our values to produce a perspective on life, and finally attitudes, which
are, for me, visible in the positions /stances we take towards events, issues and
people. ‘Disbelief’, I find very revealing: culture can clearly note what we are NOT
as well as who we are.
6. “Culture … refers to a socially constructed and historically transmitted pattern of
symbols, meaning, premises and rules.”
Philipsen, G (1992) Pg 7. Speaking Culturally: Explorations in Social
Communication. State University of New Yk Press.
TJ.
• We have law, regulation by the state, industry self-regulation, corporate self-
governance…BUT still we do not all do or feel or believe the same things.
We do not always have the same personal appreciation of or abide by ‘the
rules’... and how firm are these ‘rules’: laws? Regulations? Principles?
Guidelines? If I break the rules, by whom and how are things enforced?.
[Club 18-30 eg]. As to ‘construction’, I am not sure it is the best word as it
implies a highly-organised production process in which individuals and
groups and people within groups have clearly defined and related roles: is it
really like that? (What is your position and role??). ‘Historically
transmitted’ is helpful in one way in that it presupposes some transition over
time; but not in another: if it were 100% the case and done perfectly, then
culture would be unchanged and unchanging, which it clearly is not.
‘Pattern’: reveals that there is to some degree meaningful and discernable
relationship between the components.
4. 7. [Corporate Culture]…” is the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has
invented, discovered or developed in learning to cope with its problems of
external adaptation and internal integration. These have worked well enough to be
considered valid, and are therefore taught to new members as the correct way to
perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.”
Schein, EH. (1984) Coming to a new Awareness of Organisation Culture. Sloan
Management Review. Winter Issue. [Cited: Jacob, N. (2003) Intercultural
Management. Kogan Page. London.]
TJ.
• Interesting! ‘Pattern’ (as above) implies something of a reasoning and
rationality on the basis of reflection
(analysis….evaluation….synthesis….response) which has produced
something relatively ‘fixed’…whereas ‘problems’ and ‘invention / discovery
/ development’ suggest that there is an on-going process of stimulus
response. It is a sort of ‘designer culture’ where the wheels of the R&D
processes are constantly being turned to the tune of the problems and
throwing up ‘tweaks’ to the pre-existing culture. Culture then becomes an
issue of relationship, a systematically developed accommodation by the
organisation to changes in the business environment. Uncontrolled stimuli,
but controllable, adjustable designer responses: a DYNAMIC system. I also
like the acceptance that culture applies to ‘basic’ assumptions which have
worked ‘well enough’: i.e.: it is not an exact science and it operates at a low,
fundamental level.
8. “The core of culture is composed of explicit and tacit assumptions or
understandings commonly held by a group of people; a particular configuration
of assumptions/ understandings is distinctive to the group; these assumptions /
understandings serve as guides to acceptable and unacceptable perceptions,
thoughts, feelings and behaviours; they are learned and passed on to new
members of the group through social interaction; culture is dynamic – it changes
over time.”
Boyacigiller NA et al. (2003) Conceptualising Culture – elucidating the Streams
of Research in International Cross-Cultural Management. In : Handbook for
International Management Research. (2003) 2nd Ed. Univ of Michigan Press.
[Cited: Martin, J N & Nakayama, TK (2003) Intercultural Communication in
Contexts. McGraw & Hill.]
I like the use of ‘tacit’ and ‘assumptions’ here: things which are relatively
imprecise but which we clearly perceive and evaluate and to which we respond:
it doesn’t have to be in the form of more formal ‘rules’. ‘Distinctive’ is good
too: culture coalesces around and within a group with the effect of
distinguishing and separating it from others (perhaps it is a bit like a ‘brand’ in
the marketplace – we are very sophisticated consumers and can make very
5. subtle distinctions between brands). Again, the use of the word ‘guides’ implies
something rather less formalised and less capable of enforcement than rules.
‘Dynamic’: people change, circumstances change, social interaction changes, so
it follows that culture itself must be likewise dynamic.
9 [Culture is]… “ That complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art,
morals, laws, customs, and any other capabilities or habits acquired by a person
as a member of society.” Tylor (1871) [Cited: Lewis, H. Bournemouth
University Lecture 2005 (Unpublished) ]
Look at the date of the original source: 1871 – who says only recent material
can be valid! ‘Complex’: yes, it is hard to pin down a definition and even
harder to get inside this dynamic process of cultural evolution to really
understand it. ‘Art’, or perhaps more correctly ‘expressions’ artistic and
musical etc can be representations of culture or sub-cultures (‘Rock’ in the late
60s and 70s.... ‘Punk’ in the 80s.... ‘Grunge’ in the 90s, for example). This
definition isn’t bad in terms of its scope of the ‘What’ of culture, but it is rather
weaker on the ‘How’.
10 [Culture is] … “A way of life of a group of people…. The patterns of learned
behaviour which are handed down from one generation to the next through the
means of language and imitation.” Barnouw (1963) [Cited: Lewis, H.
Bournemouth University Lecture 2005 (Unpublished)
‘A way of life’... is culture actually the way of life itself, or is it a description
and a representation of what the group subscribes to? Can you actually follow
‘a way of life’ the way you could a road map? ‘Patterns of learned behaviour’
is good too, and the fact is that by our very nature we are forever processing
information, seeking to understand it, considering its validity and relevance to
us and coming up with a personal response: i.e. we are learning. In that process
of learning we apply our intellect, our judgement: this is how what we receive
from our parents and society at large is sieved as if we were panning for gold.
Perhaps when we are young we imprint on our parents and we imitate in order
to be accepted, but with age and learning comes choice, and we choose the
things and groups to which we wish to subscribe or more loosely affiliate
ourselves. That is where the degree of change comes in: through infinite
degrees of conformity or non-conformity.
SO: Reflecting for a moment upon the above definitions AND
our critiques thereof:-
How may your group’s definitions be improved and
enhanced in order to provide a master working
definition.....?
6. [I hope that you have gained the impression that I want you to think for yourselves, to
critique those things that academics and professionals have written – I believe that
you are capable of this and also that it is your duty to society, learning and the future
so to do. We move on only as society only if you have the courage to do just this!]