Finish That Phenomenon
“No matter how brief or extended the contact, whether it’s written or oral, mediated or face-to-face, impersonal or interpersonal, the people involved will be directly or indirectly constructing definitions of themselves and responding to the definitions offered by others.”
What is constructed selves.
“This occurs when a person communicates in such a way to deny the other person’s existence or significance.”
What is disconfirmation.
Eastern Perspective of Self - “recognizing that selves or identities are relational from age 8, or perhaps even before”
False
Eastern Perspective of Self - “recognizing that selves or identities are relational from birth , or perhaps even before”. (Stewart & Logan, 1998, pg 125)
Draw the table that an individual can choose from as they participate in identity construction.
see whiteboard.
“ across various cultural contexts, speakers use language choices ‘imaginatively, . . . a range of options is open to them within a normative framework, and . . . taking one option rather than another is the negotiation of identities’.”
What is Cultural code-switching.
“ [when] you are still unwilling or unable to exhale or express much about who you are as a person, but you are aware of, or are inhaling, some of the other person’s human features.
What is closed sensitivity.
Selves as Responders - “people fit into a context of only reacting to actions and events that they behave-in-relation to.”
False
Selves as Responders - “people grow out of and fit into a context of actions and events that they behave-in-relation to.” (Stewart & Logan, 1998, pg 126)
“Two individuals or groups can be (collaborating) in that they are moving in a similar direction, even though they disagree about how to get there or who should get there first.”
What is collaborative.
“ [when] you express some of your personal characteristics, but it still involves stereotyping because you’re receiving and responding only to the other’s social features.”
What is open stereotyping.
Selves are Multidimensional and Changing - “to be alive means change. Our selves change over time, various qualities or features are in tension with their opposites and different dimensions surface in different situations”
True
“Since the identity-construction process is collaborative, it’s outcomes depend on both (or all) persons’ responses. You have to ‘stay tuned’ to see what the outcomes are going to be, and whatever they are, it’s likely that they’ll change.”
What is emergent outcomes.
“ [when] you make available some of your personal characteristics while also perceiving and responding to the other as a person.”
What is open sensitivity.
Selves Are Developed in Past and Present Relationships - “The reason selves change over time is that we develop who we are in romantic relationships ...the primary forces that define the self are motivational forces.
False
Selves Are Developed in Past and Present Relationships - “The reason selves change over time is that we develop who we are in relationships with people around us...the primary forces that define the self are communication forces.(Stewart & Logan, 1998, pg 127)
“the boundary of the individual as the same as the boundary of the body, and that the body houses or contains the ‘self’”.
“This table summarizes in simple form the four responses each individual can make as he or she participates in the identity-construction process. Each of these responses is made up of two parts: what you perceive or “inhale” and what you express or “exhale.”
What is table of response options.
Closed Stereotyping - “each person identifies himself or herself and the other person primarily as a filler of a role, one who is virtually interchangeable with every other person in that role. Each expresses only social aspects of himself or herself, and acknowledges only social aspects of the other.” (Stewart & Logan, 1998, pg 134).
True