Communication Theory Midterm Review

Mead
People create symbolic worlds through language and their interactions with other individuals, which shapes their behavior

Pearce and Cronen
People in conversations co-construct their own social realities and are simultaneously shaped by the worlds they create based on interpretations that are based on rules

Buber
People should speak in a manner that makes others want to listen and listen in a way that makes others want to speak

Burgoon
When expectations are violated in interpersonal relationships, the person who is violated becomes extremely aware of the violation and the violator and decides if they like or dislike the violation (and consequently the violator)

Hall
People have different distances that they expect others will adhere to based on the intimacy of the relationship

Burgoon
People adjust their behavior when someone else’s behavior violates their expectations

Delia
People with high cognitive complexity are better able to create person-centered messages and accomplish their goals in communication

Altman and Taylor
We become more intimate with others when we become vulnerable and self-disclose

Thibaut and Kelley
People decide if they want to pursue/continue/end relationships based on the relationship’s perceived rewards and costs

Walther
People who communicate via the computer can develop extremely intimate relationships, which can even be closer than those created face-to-face

Baxter and Montgomery
Relationships are extremely complicated and full of contradictions, which create tensions within the relationships

Bormann
Groups unite (or converge) around stories and group fantasies that are co-created and shared

Geertz and Pacanowsky
An organization does not have culture, an organization is culture

Weick
Members in an organization go through the action of organizing, in which they interpret information and realize how to reach organizational goals through the process of retrospective sensemaking

One truth Separation between knower and known Predict and control Large population Want to generalize to larger populations Scope Parsimony Testability and Falsifiability (Popper) Methods: Experiments, Surveys