COMM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Attachment Theory, Uncertainty Reduction Theory, Social Penetration Theory
29 Mar 2017
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Communication that occurs between at least two interdependent parties. Guidelines that limit and direct our behavior. Rules from which we develop certain expectations about how people will act. In every relationship there are norms that we all follow. We need norms to make life more predictable and to give us a better pattern about life and our relationships. A set of behaviors that abides to a certain subclass of people. Expected roles: how you should play the role. Enacted roles: how an actual person would actually act as that role. Interrole conflict: we are enacting two roles at once. You tutor your friend, in one instance you have to be a friend but then you also have to be a tutor. Intrarole conflict: even just occupying one role, we can have different expectations of what that role is. Two people may have different expectations of what your roles are. Sharing things makes us feel closer and more connected with people.
