Essay On Social Interaction

By observing us children learn how to interact with others, accomplish goals, and get along in the world. We are the examples, and what many do not realize is that our non-verbal messages and actions are stronger than our verbal ones. Non-verbal communication consists of expressions, tone of voice, eye contact, and actions.  The way you listen, look, move, and react tells the other person whether or not you care, if you’re being truthful, and how well you’re listening. When your nonverbal signals match up with the words you’re saying, they increase trust, clarity, and rapport. When they don’t, they generate tension, mistrust, and confusion. There are many different types of nonverbal communication. Together, the following nonverbal signals and cues communicate your interest and investment in others.

Everyday you hear women and men being compared in life. A majority of the time it is in a form of men being more superior than women rather it 's stereotypes, appearances, or money; Men usually end up more dominant. Society tends to assume that men are more capable than women in all aspects throughout life. These postulations have commenced before we were even born. Men are expected to constantly be working and providing the home for the women and children; Women are assumed to be cleaning, cooking and taking care of the children in the house. There multitudinous assumptions made towards men and women affect the way we live. Expectations like these are why patriarchal societies are composed. Patriarchal society means that men over rule the women in many ways and are more dominant causing a contrasting way of life. It has become more instinctive for humans to think this particular way because they are being circumvented by these assumptions everyday. Throughout literature, it is clear that men and women make gender role assumptions during all different time frames forming patriarchal societies. From the novels Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, and Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire the male characters show how they specifically formed a patriarchal society with how dominant they are to the women characters in the novels due to the assumptions that men and women make about gender roles.

Non-verbal communication is used to give us cues about what is being communicated (Underman and Boggs, 2011) and involves listening, eye contact, body language, facial expressions and movements. Posture can be open or closed reflecting a person’s emotions and attitudes (skillsyouneed, 2014). Listening can create trust, act as an advocate and build a therapeutic rapport with the patient. Barriers to listening are a noisy environment, tone of voice, timing and tiredness. Kinesics (body language) is an important non-verbal skill that involves the conscious or unconscious body positioning or actions of the communicator (Underman and Boggs, 2011). Following the SOLER guideline is useful. S- Sit squarely to the person (face them). O- Maintain an open position, L- Lean slightly forward, E- Maintain comfortable eye contact and R- Relax and take your time (Egan, 2002).

In every society nonverbal communication is one of the most powerful tools that a person can use to interpret the message that is being delivered. Even though verbal communication is fairly straightforward, nonverbal communication allows others to sense the true emotions of the person that is expressing them. For example even though a person may say that they are not irritated, their usage of voice may display otherwise. Nonverbal communication not only reveals hidden messages, but it also complements, substitutes, and exaggerates verbal communication.

“What, what did you say?” I often find myself saying this when talking with children. The likely culprit of why is poor listening habits. “Most people spend mere time listening than they spend on any other communication activity, yet a large percentage of people never learn to listen well.” (TLSC, 2008) The above example is what I like to call “pseudo listening.” People will be thinking about something else but appear to be listening and only get about half the intended message. Recently at my father’s (Ron) company because of a pseudo listening instance a $400,000 dollar piece of equipment did not get specked correctly. When it was delivered to the customer at Company B the blast doors did not fit properly on the dryer unit. As one

Non-verbal communication between persons refers to conveying and receiving messages/ideas via wordless means. It involves both the conscious and unconscious mechanism of encoding (generating information) and decoding (interpretation of received sensation info from previous experiences). The mode of conversation is particularly vital when people engage in face to face interaction since it is employed not only to support the spoken message, but also to put an emphasis on its specific aspects of it. Typically, non-verbal communication is demonstrated via a multiplicity of behavioral signals constituting head and body movements/gestures, paralinguistics (such as voice tone), together with facial expressions (Galloway, 1960). Eisenberg and Smith (1971) were first to suggest that the above-mentioned cues could be quantified, an approach that in turn facilitated automatic inference on behavioral patterns in human interactions.

The study of body language, referred to as Kinesics, also helps in determining the true objectives of a subject that is being observed. Kinesics refers to the interpretation of gestures and non-verbal communication concerning movement of the body as a whole or in individual parts. Ray Birdwhistell, an arthropologist, was the first to use this term in 1952 when he decided to study the communication techniques employed by people through posture, gesture, stance, and movement (Kinesics 2). Birdwhistell stated that all body movements have a specific meaning that can equate to spoken language. He also estimated that no more than 30 to 35 percent of the social meaning of a conversation or interaction is carried

Going into this research product I had a hypothesis involving the way men and women talk today, and the way they talked in the past. Specifically, I hypothesized that modern speech should be less gender specific than speech was in the past. This is based primarily on the fact that we have greater equality between the sexes than we did in the past. So how does this present itself, or does it not? These are the main questions that are addressed in this research project. My approach involved choosing a setting that would accommodate natural conversation, and then recording the interactions between individuals from both genders. I then carefully analyzed the data and compared it to the expected results set forth by the sociolinguistic community.

Language is the mirror and communication tool of social life. Language is a neutral word for everyone can use it in daily life to communicate with each other. Language have no distinction on gender, but the users have which result in the difference of gendered language. The history of gendered language have a same point on the development on human being. It can be traced to when we born, where we live and what we think.

Child A was observed through the naturalistic approach with time both split into two thirty minute timed observations. She is a two year old, caucasian child who’s family is of a middle class socioeconomic status. Although, her family is very laid back, religion plays a large role in the everyday family life. Family life for Child A is perceived as the “cookie cutter” family. She has two happily married parents, and one older sister that is sixteen years apart from her. Physically, Child A has big brown eyes, curly brown hair, fair skin, and a bright loving smile. She was wearing black cat patterned legging and a white shirt with the word, “meow” on the front of it. She is of good health and does not have any history of any serious illnesses. The social system that the child takes part in clarifies that it is not the “typical” American family at this point in time. She is lucky enough to have two dedicated parents, married, and living in the same household. Her role in the family is commonly known as the “baby” who is typically fussed over, given attention, and brings excitement to every occasion. Although, she does play the role of the, “baby” is defined throughout the observation, she is also disciplined with fairness to balance everything out.

So how do all of these studies affect people today? This knowledge can be used to influence your behavior in an interview for that dream job that you’re looking for. Being knowledgeable about nonverbal communication might help you get a date with that person you’ve always wanted to go out with. What if you are running for a political office? Wouldn’t you like to know which posture, gestures or expressions will make you appear to be the right candidate? We’ll look at several ways that you can use nonverbal communication to make you more successful in all aspects of your life.

In this study, it allows me to see the differences in the two genders through the perspective of voice and language. It gives a visual of what men and women are capable of in situations, and it shows that men and women fail to understand each other due to their conversational style. Once we learn that we communicate differently, society can adjust to the negative effects.

The term kinesics was coined by anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell in 1952 and refers to the interpretation of body movements, facial expressions, and gestures. Understanding the grammar of kinesics can be difficult because it requires careful longitudinal observations and are situationally dependent. To add to the issues not everyone has the same body language, however, some nonverbal behaviors are believed to originate from the limbic brain and are universal.

Who am I? I am a man, a husband, a father, a dog owner, a citizen of the United States, a military member, a student. The process of socialization made me into who I am today. According to Dictionary.com, the word “socialization” means, “A continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.” Throughout my life my parents have taught me right from wrong, they taught me how to act in public, and to always respect those in authority. Socialization plays a role in everyone’s life. It makes people who they are.

The book An Intorduction of Sociolinguistics is an outstanding introductary book in the field of sociolinguistics. It encompasses a wide range of language issues. In chapter 13, Wardhaugh provides a good insight to the relationship between language and gender. He explains gender differences of language-in-use with concise examples. Wardhaugh riases questions about sexist language and guides readers to look closer at how people use language differently because of their own gender in daily life. According to the Whorfian hypothesis, which indicates that the way people use language reflects their thoughts, different genders adapt different communication strategies.