COMM 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Constructionism
18 Oct 2016
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Barnett pearce and vernon cronen bemoan the fact that most communication theorists and practitioners hold to a transmission model of communication. They"d say that definitions look through communication rather than directly at it. In contrast, pearce and cronen offer the coordinated management of meaning (cmm)as a theory that looks directly at the communication process and what it"s doing. First claim: our communication creates our social worlds. Selves, relationships, organizations, communities, and cultures are the stuff that make up our social worlds. For cmm theorists, our social worlds are not something we find or discover. Barnett pearce summed up this core concept of the theory by asserting that persons- in-conversation co-construct their own social realities and are simultaneously shaped by the worlds they create. As social constructionists, cmm researchers see themselves as curious participants in a pluralistic world. They live in pluralist worlds rather than seek a singular truth.
