“The actualising tendency refers to the tendency in all forms of organic life towards more complex organisation, the fulfilment of potential, and in human beings, the actualisation of the whole person including the persons self” (Merry 2002). Through my own experience I believe there is a need for positive self regard in order for an individual to make positive choices and trust in their own decisions.”To develop a sense of trust in the accuracy and reliability of our own inner experiencing” (Merry 2002). Again through personal experiences I understand the effect of the conditions of worth have on individuals. I believe that these affect us later in life and can be explored
C. Wright Mills theory of social imagination helps us understand that our own personal troubles do have an impact on the world around us. 4. Language is important because according to the Safir-Whorf hypothesis it not only expresses our thoughts but influences our perception of reality. 5. Self-concept,according to Mead is the theory of generalized other.
Running head:SOCIAL PENETRATION THEORY Social Penetration Theory; The Effects of Age, Gender, and Maturity on Relationships. Social Penetration Theory; The Effects of Age, Gender, and Maturity on Relationships. Social Penetration Theory is “the process if developing deeper intimacy with another person through mutual self disclosure and other forms of vulnerability (Griffin, 2011). Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor developed this theory and compared human interaction to an onion. The outer layers being thoughts, opinions, about ones self and those around them.
Interpersonal Communication Theories and Concepts: Social Penetration Theory, Self-Disclosure, Uncertainty Reduction Theory, and Relational Dialectics Theory Social Penetration Theory (SPT) Key Points • SPT is a theory about the development of “relational closeness.” • Relational closeness can progress from superficial to intimate. • Closeness develops through self-disclosure. Closeness varies according to the following factors: • Rewards/benefits • Costs/vulnerability • Satisfaction • Stability and security Self-Disclosure “Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying . . .
Interpellation is where ideology functions in constructing identity and creating a particular position for an individual in society. The role of interpellation and subjectivity can be said as important in creating identity to an individual. Thus, the process of identification creates an identity, where ‘You identify me and I become that me that you have identified’ (Judith Butler , 2009). The connection between interpellation and subjectivity can be seen through Louis Althusser’s depiction of the interpellative function of Ideological State Apparatuses: "[I]deology 'acts' or 'functions' in such a way that it 'recruits' subjects among the individuals (it recruits them all), or 'transforms' the individuals into subjects (it transforms them all) by the very precise operation which I have called interpellation or hailing, and which can be imagined along the lines of the most commonplace every day police (or other) hailing: 'Hey, you there!'”. With the comment, Althusser stress on the close relation of how interpellation functions in constructing subjectivity.
Team 2. Executive Summary OB4: Job Attitudes & G4: Obtaining information and Evaluating people Obtaining information and Evaluating people The skill of obtaining information can help us to: Better grasp organizational capabilities, deal with project management issues, and visualize market opportunities; nevertheless we have to be very aware of the cultural comparisons that could block the flow of information. In general, concerns about sharing information directly are more pronounced in hierarchical, group oriented cultures where enduring relationships are key personal asset. More country-specific factors can influence the flow of information as well. Recommendations for obtaining information are among others: To see really what is there through the attitudes and perceptions, asking via a third party, and that could be by the form of triangulating, even changing the setting, because the degree of openness in communication is often based on the context, other option is to explain background and context or to add background to your requests, showing genuine interest and demonstrating very clearly the level of you interest or depth of your concern to be taken seriously, showing precedent because the past is as important in the future for many countries, probing politely but persistently your experience or the experience of others, never underestimate the persistent repetition of a question or similar type of questions, sometimes even rephrase the request, in order to really know whether you are getting your request made, and clarify and confirm, sending a follow up confirmation in writing will always help you certify that there’s an agreement.
This is apparent through the differences in culture and how that produces difference of opinion, attire, family dynamic and verbal communication. This foundation builds an individuals outlook, principles, and behaviors. These are further compounded by social situations and religious organizations (Clark, 1999-2014). Religious organizations are social groups that congregate with similar beliefs. Groups may place specific regulations in relation to food, sexual conduct, and relationships.
The results indicated that that the most important factors affecting identity ranked in their order of importance are cohesiveness, voice and consensus respectively Introduction Social identity refers to how human beings make sense of each other. As such, social identity is critical to the construction of culture and by extension society (Turner, 1985). Human beings need to know the affiliations, beliefs, intentions of others to interpret their actions and/or predict their future behavior (Turner et al. 2008). While the qualities aren’t observable directly, they can be externally manifested through signals revealing of internal self (Turner et al.
Armed with this information, this paper hopes to bring awareness to how we process information through reasoning, use of heuristics or rule of thumb, biases, counterfactual thinking, and how negativity bias tends to be the norm for all social interaction whether business or personal as it deals with our lives. As unpleasant as it is for humans to admit, that our understanding and how we deal with other people and most important, our perception of the individual(s) mostly derives from biases and other tainted information. In deciding which information is relevant and entering the information into memory,
Social cognition is concerned with the storage, processing, and application of social information. This branch is closely related to cognitive psychology because these researches are is full of schemas; which is our general ideas about the world, things in it, how things work, and how things are. Schemas are a wonderful thing because their shortcuts in one’s own mind that allows you to continue with your day rather than stopping to interpret everything around. Naturally schemas will develop associations between related schemas which eventually affect social behavior. Attitudes and attitude changes are a major study because of the components of attitudes like how they develop and their changes.