What Is Culture?

High Culture and Low Culture

Shared and Learned Patterns of Belief and Perception

Definitions Borrowed From Ethnography

Culture as a Contested Zone

What Is Communication?

The Relationship Between Culture and Communication

How Culture Influences Communication

Value Orientation and Cultural Conflict

How Communication Influences Culture

Culture as Resistance to the Dominant Culture System

The Relationship Between Communication and Context

The Relationship Between Communication and Power

Summary

Discussion Questions

Activities

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