COMMSTUD 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: De Facto, Silent Treatment, Child Support
15 Nov 2016
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A family is a network of people who live together over long periods of time bound by ties of marriage,blood, or commitment, legal or otherwise. Communication in the family the family is a system constituted, defined, and manage through communication family members regulate cohesion and adaptability to develop collective identity through the flow of patterned, meaningful messages. Occurs within the network of evolving interdependent relationships located within a cultural context. Role of communication in a family interaction families co-create meanings relational world-view that characterizes the family context of race, religion, culture, gender, etc. These meanings are shared and created through communication from the things that are said: family stories from the things that are not said: family secrets. Families socialize their members families are part of multigenerational communication patterns. Power : ability to change the behavior of other family members. De facto decision ( on going debate , opinions get fewer and fewer )
