Social Studies Unit 3: Language and Communication

The methods human beings use to exchange ideas, concepts, feelings/emotions, symbols, etc.

(1st type of communication): talking, conversations, lecture, podcast…

(2nd type of of communication): texts, books, poetry, journals, notes…

(3rd type of communication): body language, body proximity, eye contact, hand gestures, facial expression, smell

Something that is found in every human culture (ex: tradition, food, language)

Something that is found in only one culture (ex: 4th of July, stars and stripes, Star Spangled Banner)

Something that is found in some, but not all, human cultures (ex: flag, Starbucks, birthdays, Independence Day, crop-top)

Movement of the hand (or other related parts of the body) to express an idea

An arrangement of the parts of the face to convey emotions

1st scientist to talk about facial expressions

A book in 1872

7 facial expressions were Human universals

Inborn

Were innate

Happiness, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, fear, contempt

(Disdain— Not thinking well of a person)

Psychologist

With Charles Darwin

With contempt

No facial expressions are universally understood (HU)

Not biological (innate). They are learned behavior (culture)

When two people look directly into each other’s eyes when meeting or conversing