concepts
Appear and are constructed or worked out in verbal and nonverbal talk.
Identities
Two-part or bidirectional communication process
Inhaling-exhaling metaphor
Give out and Take in
Implies both choice and connection with what’s already happened
All human action is a joint action
Selves Are Responders
Only giving out social information
Awareness of the other person’s social characteristics
Closed Stereotyping
The process of constructing selves is a joint effort that cannot be controlled by oneself
Collaborative
Individuals aren’t aware of the identity-construction process because it’s not creating any problems in many situations
In and Out of Awareness
Who a person is in different situations and different relationships
Selves are Multidimensional and Changing
Being unwilling or unable to express much about who you are as a person, but you are aware of some of the other person’s features.
Closed Sensitivity
No matter how predictable an individual is, it is likely that they’ll change
Emergent Outcomes
Most members of dominate social groups in the western world think of the boundary of the individual as the same as the boundary of the body, that the body contains the self
Old views on identities
We develop who we are in relationships with the people around us
Past relationships contribute to the patterns that help make up our present selves
Selves are Developed in Past and Present Relationships
Expressing some of one's personal characteristics
Still receiving and responding to only the other’s social features
Open Stereotyping
When people realize their “selves” are at stake, most want to make some choice or decisions about how to participate in it
Reactions and Responses
Being a part of many different social institutions and understanding the import ways in which “who I am” grows out of how I talk and listen to and with others
Current views on identities
Occurs when a person communicates in such a way to deny the other person’s existence or significance
Disconfirmation
Making available some of your personal characteristics
Perceiving and responding to the other as a person
Open Sensitivity