Social Psychology Of Communication

Social Psychology of Communication Rogers Michael Kazibwe Author Herbert Mead

Communication Interactive, continuous process, dynamic, without stopping

Society interactive -Result of play & game Individuals are connected A series of games A structure – outside it no communication

Charles Cooley

Mechanism through A product of which human communication relations exist & are process developed It is the process that connects the self with the external World

Jean Piaget

Reflexive process

A cognitive system that involves interactions and responses from others

Personality (self) It is self-knowledge. It emerges ‘ME’ Product of interaction It does not exist before interaction

Cognitive (mente)

Specialty Behaviorism Depends on communication. interaction; Mind-self-society involves the person: are products of takes the communication. perspective of the The self and the other. society are created Product of in reflexive communication communication.

Is negotiated Not possible without the knowledge of you, you(p), he, she etc Each one’s observation is like a mirror that reflects us

Product of feedback Sociologist Concentrates on the internal motives of others before communication. We are always validated by others

Developed cognitively

A product of feedback

Genetic epistemology, Studied the levels of cognitive development .

H. Stack Sullivan

Erwin Goffman

Gregory Bateson

Interactive with others

Source of insecurity through interaction Increases or decreases anxiety and insecurity

Formed through active interpersonal interaction with others Interdependent with society

Defense mechanism that minimizes anxiety & insecurity experiences

Psychiatric Psychotherapy therapy through interaction helps to minimize anxiety and insecurity.

Negotiation between front and back, public and private, closed and open

Theatre environment (we are all actors on a stage) front and backwards Life is a stage

Personal identity is negotiated

Depends on others responses

Social Anthropologist Social life is a drama, a rite

Mechanical system Organized structure Continues without stopping Uses conscious and unconscious codes

Closed interaction, rigid-total institutions, formal relationships, fixed codes, limited feedback

Identity is interpreted and negotiated

Dialogue between conscious and subconscious.

Cybernetic theory, all is integrated and connected Society & the mind are living organisms Mental sickness is a problem of communication