Conformity In A Pluralistic Family

like intimate and family relationships. In this exercise I am asked to look at the categories of communication patterns used in families and determine what best describes my family of origin. The family communication patterns have four modes, consensual, pluralistic, protective, or laissez-faire. How families communicate can vary significantly between two ways, by the types of communication and the levels of conformity. Conversation orientation is defined as how open families are to discuss topics

FAMILY COMMUNICATION PATTERN AND INTERNET ADDCITION Family by its nature is a social unit wherein children grow up and it acts like the socialization agent. Children receive their earliest and most consistent socialization here in the family. In a family it is very important as to how parents cater the needs of their children and how children take care of them in return. Parents as well as the child are very important part of the developmental process, as it is the parents who will shape the children

The article, “Father-Daughter Relationships: Examining Family Communication Patterns and Interpersonal Communication Satisfaction” by Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter, published in the Communication Research Reports: Volume 25, No. 1, on February 1, 2008, presents the findings from a study concerning the interpersonal communication satisfaction between fathers and daughters as a result of their communication patterns. Punyanunt-Carter begins her paper by providing details from a literature review

adolescents so that they can live a better life ahead. There are many research studies done that emphasis on internet addiction and its effect on adolescents. There results include effect on their academic performance, well being, self esteem and increase family conflicts. According to one of the research done by Young (1998), it reported that individuals who have high internet addiction among adolescents have low levels of self esteem. In addition, low self esteem is also found to be one of the reasons for

textbook, family is defined as a self-defined group of intimates who create and maintain themselves through their own interactions and their interactions with others. (West & Turner, Cengage Learning) To me family members don’t always have to be who you’re related to by blood. I have some friends I consider family because they have been through everything with me. I have some friends who don’t get along with their parents, and consider their friends and their friends families a family to them. The

results were not good enough for admission into university. But she wanted to continue her study through a good gateway from College to the university. However, her parents disagree with her and suggest that she should find a job to help support the family. From the case study of the condition, we need to identify the problems in the main character and provide solutions. Firstly, we need to identify the problems in the main character. According to the case study, her parents have high expectations of

describing those memories, I will briefly describe the different family conflict climate categories as well as conflict approaches and behaviors. According to Table 8.2 on p. 146 there are four main types of Family Conflict Climate Types: Pluralistic families, Consensual families, Protective families, and Laissez-Faire families. Pluralistic families tend to have “High conversation- Low conformity” (p.146, Flora) meaning that as a family they embrace conflict, encourage telling each other about their

Laissez-faire is low conversation, low conformity. In this chapter it also talked about communication in friendships .Types of friendships could be long or short, youthful or mature, frequent contact or occasional contact, high obligation or low obligation, and lastly high disclosure or low disclosure

Literature Review The ways in which a family communicates messages with each other plays a key role in shaping the lives of each individual family member. Humans have always belonged to and identified with their families even before they could speak or form any other social group. Family members not only rely on each other to be there for emotional and social support, but also shape how individuals identify themselves. Therefore, the quality of family relationships greatly impacts the quality of

world. It serves as a tool to measure and change one another’s self-concept. During our lifetime we not only give and receive information, but we also make meanings out of it. Communication is considered a behavior because it is learned mostly in our family of origin. When we are born we have no self-concept, we do not know how to interact with others nor experience on how to deal with the world around us. Because communication patterns are learned, they can also be changed (Satir, 1972). During a communication