COM 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Joyce Brothers, Merley, Chief Operating Officer

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Center for Written and Oral Communication
• Course: COM 1000
• Professor: Kellerman Edmund

Document Summary

Men and women communicate differently: gender has sig effects on communication, socialization and reinforcement. Division of labor in household, girls are taught cooking and nurturing skills and boys are taught physical labor: socialization is broad and subtle, see how others act and try to fit in, reinforccement direct and explicit. Gender roles: many women entrapped up until the empowerment of the contemporary feminist movement, brought about expectations of metacommunication level. Women had to obey" men in relationships. Reinforcement: late 90s womens tennis professionsals talked about boycotting tournments for receiving less prize money than males, socialization, reinforcement, mediated images, women come to different perceptions and interpretations than men. Morelikley to say thanks than refer to further their relationship: women are more tuned in and produce and interpret metamessages while men tend to favor quick solutions and often refuse to admit to the overtones of conversation. We" while men use i": 3 major differences broad generalizations.