COM 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Communication Problems, Communication Studies, Symbolic Interactionism
13 Feb 2020
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How to do well in class mother. Not useful to say communication studies are branches of political science, english, A narrow view of what is helps us assess communication problems especially in relationships. Your view of communication process makes a difference. Best exemplified by the iowa and chicago schools conceptions of the development of self. Self how others think about you and how you think about yourself. Use of symbols greatly impacts how we see self . Kuhn basically agreed with mead and blumer that (symbolic interaction) The vast majority of our symbolic action is not impulsive or instinctive we think before we act for the most part. That is why we are actors, not reactors. People act on the basis of meanings they assign to thing. We assign meanings to the actions of other people . Semiotic interpretive impulse natural tendency to interpret signs. Symbolic interaction acknowledges that meanings often change. Used to mean ill, now it means cool.
