Deck 9: Communication Ethics and Community

Question 1

The nature of communities raises ethical issues of justice.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Ethical issues of justice are rare in communities.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The dialectical tension of similarity and differences is a fundamental contradiction in all communities.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The desire to be accepted by others is a primary motivation for community.

Question 5

Community identity has little to do with how a community manages the dialectical tension of similarity and different.

Question 6

How a community defines its identity creates guidelines for how the community treats its members who are different.

Question 7

A distinctive community identity helps community members identify who is a legitimate member of their community and who is not.

Question 8

Distinctive communication practices help distinguish community members from outsiders.

Question 9

You can signal your community identity by wearing distinctive clothing, distinctive nonverbal cues, or and distinctive language that are markers of a specific community identity.

Question 10

Variations in clothing within a community sometimes signals the existence of sub-communities within a larger community.

Question 11

Different types of veils worn by Muslim women indicates all these women are members of the same Muslim community.

Question 12

Wearing specific colors or using specific nonverbal cues are signs of community identity.

Question 13

Excluding outsiders who are different in some way is always unethical and ineffective in maintaining either community identity and the broader community.

Question 14

Physical separation of communities, such as the separation of Irish Catholic from English Protestants in Ireland during the 17^th century, is an example of maintaining community identity and the broader community through exclusion.

Question 15

Disagreements about Muslim wearing a veil or dressing modestly are part of conflicts about community identity and who is a legitimate member of a community.

Question 16

It is rare and unusual for communities to use violence to exclude persons labeled outsiders from a community.

Question 17

Communities intolerant of difference from their idealized community identity, label community members who differ from the ideal "outsiders," and often exclude them.

Question 18

A community's identity has little impact on a how it practices justice.

Question 19

The most fundamental question of justice is a community is "who has a legitimate interest?"

Question 20

The question "what is a legitimate interest?" asks what is needed for members of a community to survive and thrive.

Question 21

In a workplace community, the stakeholders in deciding work schedules are employees, the company, and shareholders.

Question 22

The legitimate interests of community members who differ from the idealized community identity are never as important as community members similar to the idealized community identity.

Question 23

The paradox of community life is that all community members are treated fairly.

Question 24

How communities treat nonconforming community members raises questions of justice.

Question 25

How communities treat outsiders can raise questions of justice.

Question 26

When some people are accepted into a community, others are simultaneously excluded, creates the paradox of community life.

Question 27

The Golden Rules encourages us to consider how community members who are different from us are simultaneously similar to us in important ways.

Question 28

The political toleration of difference is a political practice for managing the dialectical tension of similarity and different in communities.

Question 29

The practice of political toleration of difference recognizes that nonconforming minorities in the community have little chance of becoming the majority in the future.

Question 30

Philosophical theories of ethics offer little help in addressing issues of justice in the treatment of nonconforming community members.

Question 31

Tension between individuals and their community has little influence on questions of justice within communities

Question 32

The dialectical tension between individuals and community develop from the relational connections between community members.

Question 33

Interdependent relational connections focus on how community members can be creative and innovate.

Question 34

Understanding community relationships as interdependent encourages community members to recognize relational responsibilities that support their common community life.

Question 35

Relational responsibilities of community are best expressed in laws and formal rules that can be easily enforced.

Question 36

Volunteering at a homeless shelter or helping elderly neighbors care for their home are examples of informal relational responsibilities and duties of community life.

Question 37

Being independent and personal integrity is valued in loose relational connections of community.

Question 38

Freedom of thought and action is valued in interdependent relational connections of community.

Question 39

Recognizing that without individuals there would be no community is an important contribution of understanding community relationships as loose connections.

Question 40

It is possible to minimize dialectical tensions of community life, so issues of justice are communities will begin to disappear.

Question 41

Dialectical tensions of community never go away, so issues of justice in a community occur again and again.

Question 42

Communication practices and social relationships that create the strength and vitality of a community create a community's social capital.

Question 43

Social capital researchers describe the relational connections of social relationships as relational bridges and bonds.

Question 44

Honesty and cooperativeness of community members creates social trust.

Question 45

Social trust is based upon reliable expectations about how community members will act.

Question 46

Mutual social relationships among community members are important social capital for a community.

Question 47

Sociologists, including Robert Putnam, have researched how social capital is weakening in North American and European societies.

Question 48

Political parties and large institutions, like governments, schools, and high education are essential social capital.

Question 49

Increased digital communication is the primary reason social capital is weakening.

Question 50

Expressions of feeling isolated and being disconnected from others are examples of weakened social capital found by researchers.

Question 51

Research shows that there is no relationship between income inequality and social capital.

Question 52

One sign of strong social capital in communities is social mobility.

Question 53

Because social capital requires stable relationships in local communities, one way to strengthen social capital is to strengthen relationships between community members

Question 54

Communication strategies for managing dialectical tensions of community may also strengthen relationships among community members, rebuilding social capital.

Question 55

Metaphors of community offer frameworks for thinking about fairness in a community and for developing strategies to strengthen social capital.

Question 56

Two metaphors for thinking about relationships in communities are "friendship" and "citizenship."

Question 57

"Friendship" is an effective metaphor to develop a strategy for strengthening social capital, because there is strong agreement about what a good friend is.

Question 58

Two models of friendship that offer frameworks for thinking about justice and social capital, are Aristotle's striving for the happiness of a friend and a relationship of self-revelation.

Question 59

In Aristotle's model of friendship considers your happiness as important as the happiness of your friend. True

Question 60

Sacrifice of personal self-interest for a friend's happiness plays a key role in Aristotle's understanding of friendship

Question 61

Interpersonal trust in Aristotle's model of friendship develops because friends sacrifice their personal self-interest for each other.

Question 62

To practice Aristotle's model of friendship, friends must have a common understanding of "the good" of friendship that creates happiness.

Question 63

Questions of fairness develop between friends, when they have disagreements about "the good" of friendship.

Question 64

Because there is agreement about "the good" of friendships, Aristotle's model of friendship is an effective framework for strengthening social capital.

Question 65

Relationships based on self-actualization offer support for achieving personal goals.

Question 66

Authentic and empathic communication are important for effective self-actualizing relationships.

Question 67

Self-actualizing relationships require that friends have consensus about how they will help each other meet their individual personal goals.

Question 68

Interpersonal trust in self-actualizing relationships is based upon authentic communication.

Question 69

Changing feelings, needs, or goals are all reasons that a self-actualizing friendship may end.

Question 70

Self-actualizing friendship strengthen communication relationships and social capital with a stable interpersonal consensus based upon authentic communication and empathy.

Question 71

Without personal freedom, self-actualizing relationships would not exist.

Question 72

Persons who are not part of the interpersonal consensus of self-actualizing relationships are excluded.

Question 73

The combination of self-actualization, authentic communication, and empathy encourages a style of thinking called emotivism.

Question 74

Emotivism discourages communicators to think about their personal feelings and preferences and encourages consideration of others in broad issues of justice within a community.

Question 75

Emotivist thinking encourages a personal view of justice-"Is it fair for you or me?"

Question 76

The self-actualizing model of friendship encourages consideration of others outside of the friendship in the broader community

Question 77

The stability and personal freedom of self-actualizing friendship make this an effective framework for strengthening social capital in communities.

Question 78

The citizenship metaphor for communities is about involvement in political parties.

Question 79

The metaphor of citizenship encourages thinking about benefits of community membership and responsibilities for maintaining the community.

Question 80

In the citizenship metaphor, political and legal rights of citizenship are highlighted as a benefit of community membership.