COMMUNICATION q Communication as a means of information exchange q Communication as interaction q Communication as understanding
THE NOTION OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION • Communication is the process of creating contacts between people caused by the need for mutual activity.
PARTS OF COMMUNICATION q Sender (communicator) q Message q Receiver (recipient)
SENDER (COMMUNICATOR) AND RECEIVER (RECIPIENT) q Are both active and independent q Form an idea about each other q Act purposefully q Communicate verbally and nonverbally q Influence each other
FEATURES OF COMMUNICATION q. A subject interacts with a subject q. Includes a unified coding system
FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNICATION q. Communicative q. Information (information exchange) q. Emotive (showing emotional contacts) q. Creative (forming of new relations) q. Self-expression
SUBJECT OF COMMUNICATION Real illusive Imaginary
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION q. Appearance (clothes, hair style, etc. ) q. Signals (traffic lights, etc. ) q. Signs (drawings, drafts, etc. ) q. Tactile (handshaking, etc. )
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STRUCTURE OF COMMUNICATION Communication Integration Perception Verbal Nonverbal Psychological impact; personality changes because of other people’s influence A process of understanding. Helps participants interact with each other. Cooperation Participants act together in order to reach the mutual goal Rivalry Reaching the goal via competing with other participants
SOCIAL PERCEPTION q Empathy (the ability to understand share the feelings of others) q Social Reflection q Casual Attribution (the attempt to predict or explain the partner’s behaviour based on the similarities of certain situation with well-known prototypes. )
COMMUNICATION BARRIERS q social differences: social position, profession. q individual psychological characteristics of communicators (An excessive shyness of one of the partners, etc. )
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