COMM 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Placemaking

• School: Towson University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 215
• Professor: Erin Berry

Document Summary

Committed romantic relationships: are relationships between individuals who assume that they will be primary and continuing parts of each other"s lives. Most of our social relationships are i-you connections. Passion: is what first springs to mind when we think about romance. Commitment: the something else needed is commitment, the second dimension of romantic relationships. Intimacy: the third dimension of romantic relationships is intimacy: feelings of closeness, connection, and tenderness. Hooking up: which is engaging in some degree of sexual activity with a person with no expectation of seeing that person again, is an increasingly popular form of initial get-together. Environmental spoiling: denotes situations in which proximity breeds ill will. Relational culture: the nucleus of intimacy is relational culture, which is a private world of rules, understandings, meanings, and patterns of acting and interpreting that partners create for their relationship. Placemaking: is the process of creating a comfortable personal environment that reflects the values, experiences, and tastes of the couple.