16 Living in Complex Societies 1 / Problems in Cultural Diversity: verbal / non verbal communication

Discussion / Reflection Activities

 

COIL PROJECT PARTNERSHIP: Cultural Diversity

Living in complex vs simple societies: learning resources, guest lectures, and interactions and responses on shared values, observations, or experiences based on students’ ancestry, heritage, and travels. Students will learn about cultural “dos and don’ts” around the world and provide the class with their own culture shock experiences and how they overcame them. Through the study of cultural concepts, this course develops skills in critical thinking, writing, and scholarly documentation.

 

The COIL project guest lecture will focus on the juxtaposition of the socio-developmental processes between nation-states, regions or across different types of society.  There are two main approaches/methods applicable to this course: the first seeks similarities across different countries and cultures; that is, the application of ‘most different system design’ (MDSD) while the other seeks variation; that is, the ‘most different system design’ (MSSD).

 

For example, Structural Marxism has sought to engage comparative methods to discover the general processes that underlie apparently different social orderings in different societies. However, a major undoing of this approach is that the different social contexts are routinely underplayed in the search for supposed universal structures. Max Weber has remained the most notable Sociologist who employed comparative methods to understand variance; that is, differential attributes to depict how dissimilarities between cultures explained the different social orderings that had emerged.

 

COIL Project partners:

Dr. Remi Alapo, Adjunct Asst Professor, Cultural Diversity Program/History Dept., York College, CUNY: https://www.york.cuny.edu/directory/oalapo1

Dr. Adebusuyi Adeniran, Chair,  Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Obafemi Awolowo University [OAU], Ile Ife, Nigeria: https://soc-anthro.oauife.edu.ng

Dr. Roberto Castenada Serabia – Faculty, Univ. of Uqroo, Cancun, Mexico.

 

Resources

An OER / COIL project on “Society and Cross-Cultural Interaction: Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication Across Cultures”

Diversity and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century

Non Verbal Communication – Message of Time Space and Silence Across Cultures

Verbal and Non Verbal Communications Across Cultures

 

Small Group Activity

  1. Cross Cultural Perspectives
  2. Leadership Dilema

 

Watch
4) Verbal and non-verbal communication between cultures
5) A discussion on Living in “Complex Societies: Verbal and Non-Verbal Communications” on 11/21/2022–  by Prof. Adeniran Adebusuyi, Chair of the Sociology Dept at the Obafemi Awolowo [OAU] University in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Comments by Prof. Roberto Castenada Serabia – Univ. of Uqroo, Cancun, Mexico. Organized by Dr. Remi Alapo – City Univ of New York – CUNY.
6) A discussion on “Simple vs Complex Societies” on 11/21/2022 – A discussion on “Simple vs Complex Societies” on 11/21/2022 by Prof. Adeniran Adebusuyi, Chair of the Sociology Dept at the Obafemi Awolowo [OAU] University in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Comments by Prince Akinwale Ojomo, CEO / Founder of Diaspora Innovation Institute [DII]. Organized by Dr. Remi Alapo – Institute for Peace and Leadership, Inc. / City Univ of New York – CUNY. Special thanks to Prof. Tim Kirk, Chair of the History Dept at York College, CUNY for joining the session.

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