Sociocultural Tradition of Communication
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Sociocultural Tradition of Communication
By Shawn, Vicky, Clare & Stanley
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Origins: Sociocultural Theory
The contributions that society makes to individual development
The interaction between developing people and the culture in which they live
Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)
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Sociocultural Tradition of Communication Theory“Sociocultural approaches to
communication theory address the ways our understandings, meanings, norms, roles, and rules are worked out interactively in communication. ”(Littlejohn & Foss)
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Sociocultural Tradition of Communication TheoryThis tradition holds that reality is not
an objective set of arrangements outside us but is constructed through a process of communicating in groups, society, and cultures.
It focuses on patterns of interactions rather than individual characteristics of mental model.
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Theories under the Sociocultural TraditionSymbolic interactionism Social constructionismSociolinguisticsEthnography &
Ethnomethodology
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Symbolic interactionism
This theory focuses attention on the way that people interact through symbols: words, gestures, rules, and roles.
Based on how humans develop a complex set of symbols to give meaning to the world. (LaRossa & Reitzes, 1993)
Key idea: Social structures and meaning is created and maintained within social interactions.
George Mead (1863–1931)
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Social constructionismInvestigates how human
knowledge is constructed through social interaction
Argues that the nature of the world is less important than the language used to name and discuss it.
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Ethnography & EthnomethodologyThe observation of how actual
social groups come to build meaning through their linguistic and non-linguistic behaviors, is another perspective within the sociocultural tradition.
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Sociocultural Tradition
Compare with Phenomenological Tradition
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Racial Discrimination
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Mario Ballotelli
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Phenomenological Tradition1. human being come to understand the world through direct experience.
2. Basic principles:1). Knowledge is found directly in conscious experience2). The meaning of a thing consists of the potential of that thing in one’s life.3). Language is the vehicle of meaning, we experience the world through the
language used to define & express that world.
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Sociocultural tradition1.interaction is the process and
site in which meaning roles etc. are worked out.
2.people together create the realities of their social groups, organizations and cultures.
3.identities are established through interaction in social groups, organizations and cultures.
4.significant part of what gets made in social interaction
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Compare and ContrastPhenomenal----superficial of
racial discrimination.
Sociocultural----deeper about the culture of racial discrimination
Use both of tradition to thinking comprehensively
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Hongkongers angry with China
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What is Culture?All the behaviours of a given
individuals are established and decorated, which understands commonly(OSullivanWay, p.2).
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Nationalitydefine the state of originrelationship between a person
and his or her state of origin and there is protection of the state where they born
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Race
literary a group of people descended from a common ancestor
different density of gene frequencies
physical performances such as (skin color or hair form)
no inherent connection with regulations and cultural patterns
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Components to form a culture
Knowledge BeliefArt MoralsLawCustoms Habits
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History of HK as UK colony
HK became British colony is due to ‘Opium War’
The Communist and highly nationalistic government of the People’s Republic of China convinced the real measurement of unusual achievement of Hong Kong
Keep the system and way of life in Hong Kong for 50 years when it talked an end to British imperial rule
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Difference between HK culture and Mainlander culture
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Applying Sociocultural TraditionSymbolic Interactionism (SI)Ethnomethodology
Social Constructionism
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Symbolic Interactionism (SI) & Ethnography
1st Issue protest against opening up Hong Kong for Mainland China drivers
She used ‘local’ for describing Hong Kong resource
(May imply she think mainlander take over the resources!! )
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Symbolic Interactionism (SI) & Ethnography
A relative negative, angry tone
Gesture‘overwhelm’ the local
populationHong Kong unique ‘local’
culture Rhetorical questions
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Symbolic Interactionism (SI) & Ethnography2nd issue Mainland parents give
birth in Hong Kong
Using word
‘inconvenience’ Give personal experience
to blame mainlander causing the problem
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Symbolic Interactionism (SI) & Ethnography
Negative, angry tone Facial expression ‘has no choice over who I
have to serve’ ‘Hong Kong taxpayer’ The right of her children
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Social Constructionism
(Hong Kong Anti D & G Protest)
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Social Constructionism
(A Peking University Professor called Hongkongers ‘dogs’)
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ConclusionSociocultural approach focuses
on Social relationship, interaction & identity
Unlike other traditions, the context e.g.(norms, roles, rules) is EXTREMELY important.
Potentials to be subjective