Part Five: Challenges in Intercultural Communication
Learning Objectives
- Describe how socioeconomic status relates to the distribution of social opportunities and resources.
- Describe how a low socioeconomic status can impact the health status of individuals.
- Define mental health and explain why it is regarded as a socially constructed concept.
- Give examples of effects of social class on marriage, birth rates, and family composition.
- Discuss three factors contributing to educational inequality.
- Explain how social class relates to religious affiliation, denomination, and religiosity.
- Evaluate how social class impacts political participation and political influence.
- Describe how the administration of punishment has changed throughout history.
- Describe the fundamental process of social categorization and its influence on thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
- Define stereotypes and describe the ways that stereotypes are measured.
- Review the ways that stereotypes influence our behavior.
- Review the causes and outcomes of ingroup favoritism.
- Summarize the results of Henri Tajfel’s research on minimal groups.
- Outline the personality and cultural variables that influence ingroup favoritism.
- Review the causes of discrimination and the ways that we can reduce it.
- Summarize the conditions under which intergroup contact does or does not reduce prejudice and discrimination.
- Define sex and gender and femininity and masculinity.
- Critically assess the evidence on biology, culture and socialization, and gender.
- Discuss agents of gender socialization.
- Explain the causes of cross-cultural miscommunication.
- Identify fundamental cross-cultural communication strategies.
- Practice cross-cultural dialogue.