Relationships are something that everyone in the world has and depends on. Relationships come in many different types. There are familial relationships, work relationships, friendship and romantic relationships. All different relationship types serve different functions and have different benefits. The determining factor for quality of relationships is communication. The two relationships that I will be discussing within this paper are friendships and relationships. There are certain communication concepts and theories that if people were aware of the quality of their relationships would improve.
Friendships are an important part of life. Friends help you through some of the hardest things in life, they provide joy and they support you in …show more content…
Friendship is defined as “a relationship of mutual affection between people. It is a stronger form of an interpersonal bond than an association” (n.d.). Friendship is where everything begins. Actually, you first start as acquaintances than friends and then depending on the situation, move into romantic relationships or fall apart. The theory I will talk about is the dialectical theory. “Dialectical theory of friendship refers to tensions between contradictory elements in relationships between friends. argues that friendships, at any stage in life, represent a set of challenges from dialectical contradictions in the very concept of being friends. The theory attempts to identify these contradictions to appreciate and understand the complex nature of friendships. It identifies two dialectics that occur in friendships: contextual and interactional. Contextual dialectics describe the place of friendship in the wider context of society, and interactional dialectics deal with the ambiguities of everyday communication in any friendship. Contextual dialectics identify cultural and societal conceptions that frame and pervade interaction within specific friendships. And interactional dialectics address the …show more content…
Relationships according to the dictionary is defined as “the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected, the state of being connected by blood or marriage, the way in which two or more people or organizations regard and behave toward each other, an emotional and sexual association between two people” (n.d.). This is where we have intimacy with our partner. The theory I will be talking about is Social Penetration Theory. Social Penetration Theory means “the relation to the depth of interpersonal relationships. Developed in 1973 by psychologists Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor, the theory states that relationships begin and deepen through self-disclosure. In the beginning, people establish relationships by disclosing many simple, harmless facts through small talk. As relationships grow, the rate of self-disclosure slows while the facts disclosed become intimate in nature. Intimate self-disclosure allows others to penetrate a person’s public persona and discover his or her innermost self. Relationships stagnate when the people involved refuse to self-disclose” (2015). This means that one is trying to find their identity through the relationship. Identities are something that changes all the time. There is a statement that says every seven years a person changes: their style, lifestyle, views, which means their identities will change. Sometimes people will try to find
Friendships are an important part of life. Friends help you through some of the hardest things in life, they provide joy and they support you in …show more content…
Friendship is defined as “a relationship of mutual affection between people. It is a stronger form of an interpersonal bond than an association” (n.d.). Friendship is where everything begins. Actually, you first start as acquaintances than friends and then depending on the situation, move into romantic relationships or fall apart. The theory I will talk about is the dialectical theory. “Dialectical theory of friendship refers to tensions between contradictory elements in relationships between friends. argues that friendships, at any stage in life, represent a set of challenges from dialectical contradictions in the very concept of being friends. The theory attempts to identify these contradictions to appreciate and understand the complex nature of friendships. It identifies two dialectics that occur in friendships: contextual and interactional. Contextual dialectics describe the place of friendship in the wider context of society, and interactional dialectics deal with the ambiguities of everyday communication in any friendship. Contextual dialectics identify cultural and societal conceptions that frame and pervade interaction within specific friendships. And interactional dialectics address the …show more content…
Relationships according to the dictionary is defined as “the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected, the state of being connected by blood or marriage, the way in which two or more people or organizations regard and behave toward each other, an emotional and sexual association between two people” (n.d.). This is where we have intimacy with our partner. The theory I will be talking about is Social Penetration Theory. Social Penetration Theory means “the relation to the depth of interpersonal relationships. Developed in 1973 by psychologists Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor, the theory states that relationships begin and deepen through self-disclosure. In the beginning, people establish relationships by disclosing many simple, harmless facts through small talk. As relationships grow, the rate of self-disclosure slows while the facts disclosed become intimate in nature. Intimate self-disclosure allows others to penetrate a person’s public persona and discover his or her innermost self. Relationships stagnate when the people involved refuse to self-disclose” (2015). This means that one is trying to find their identity through the relationship. Identities are something that changes all the time. There is a statement that says every seven years a person changes: their style, lifestyle, views, which means their identities will change. Sometimes people will try to find