CMST 1061 Lecture : Lectures
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Theory: phenomenon, repeats again, explanation-change, behavior, continue, understand, example: after a football game traffic is horrible it repeats every time. Lets say you want to go get milk for your kids and you see all the traffic you try to understand it to change your behavior. Meaning is all different to all: social construction of reality, our groups create meaning, if i am a fisherman i will understand the meaning behind the fishing pole. 2 aspects of communication: content, relationship-saying have a nice day- sarcastically, concern, etc . Areas of communication: intrapersonal- communication in your head, interpersonal- 2 person communication (dyad, small group, organization, medicated communication, health communication. Contexts: psychological, physical- location/ environment, social context status relationship between peers, cultural- what is accepted in a particular culture, temporal- time of day; some people are morning people or others. Classical theory of the self (the self is composed of 4 aspects): spiritual:
