role of commmunication in maintaining social relationships and control

Question 1

teachers?

Answer 1

have power and authority during school hours. They enforce school rules and have authority to direct and punish.

school enviro create social relationships with teacher and student influence comm strategies used in diff classes.

Question 2

Peers (Micro)

Answer 2

• affect types of comm that takes place
• can be powerful friends in groups, those that influence others and involve a ‘peer pressure’. Some influential and persuasive (group leader)
• depending on relations with peers, diff comm strategies used.
• e.g. use sarcasm to show connect/closeness or use type of secret language understood by members only = often an attempt to maintain control of its member and keep outsiders out of comm.

Question 3

Family (micro)

Answer 3

• parents have authority and power over their children but parents can also be influential and persuaded by their kids. (some afraid of rel/ships with children)
• major influence of socialisation and enculturation processes.
• ability to comm with fam members often mean development of identity occur within positive enviro.
• if comm barrier present between fam, resentment, frustration, anger and misunderstanding bound to happen

Question 4

what are social relationships?

Answer 4

those that we have with other persons in our micro, meso and macro worlds. social within worlds require participants knowing rules and behaviours of S+C within which interaction take place.

Question 5

what is related to social control?

Answer 5

influence of one person over another
influence of one person on his/her enviro
influence or person has over decision making

examinations of relationships help show how communication is related to social control

Question 6

how does status affect comm process?

Answer 6

influence outcome of comm
e.g. parents try use power and authority to control rel/ships with children and attempt to control their social rel/ships.

Question 7

How is it seen in macro world to regulate social rel/ships and maintain social control?

Answer 7

-language used to influence others. e.g. in workforce, any new procedures/rules are told by manager or those with power so that it will not be questioned. shows how status and role of sender of a message can influence both social rel/ships and control in work place.

others such as victory speechs, take over announcement and persuasion tactics all help with social control over another .

legal system, media and gov system use comm in diff forms to do so

Question 8

why is comm important?

Answer 8

• complex system of comm enables us to satisfy needs such as personal enjoyment, social participation, understanding self identity and control of you micro world.

Question 9

why is satisfactory comm skills necessary?

Answer 9

for positive social relationships as comm satisfies social needs and improves self esteems and confidence

Question 10

what does unsatisfactory comm lead to?

Answer 10

certain factors can cause comm breakdown such as use of tech but lose internet connection or bad phone line

leads to misunderstandings and loss of positive comm.