Interpersonal Communication

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The author writes how this study of interpersonal communication helped him personally to appreciate the subtle differences between different cultures, as well as between men and women. The author further relates that he learned more about himself; what he needs to do in order to make his relationships more enduring and more productive.

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"Interpersonal communication is an area of study that can be very easily overlooked by non-experts when they are examining the anthropological and/or sociological underpinnings of a society. Specifically, people can become so wrapped up in linguistics or in political institutions and their development over time or in the philosophical-religious traditions of a nation or community that the way in which people interact with one another is often pushed to one side. However, for me personally, I find interpersonal communication to be highly revelatory because societies, as fundamentally social organisms, are constituted upon broad principles and rules that are meant to govern how people communicate with one another; in other words, if you can understand why people interact with each other in the manner they do, you can also understand the conventions, expectations, gender roles, social hierarchies, and basic parameters that order a society - a society that might very well be fundamentally different from one's own."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Katz, Dian. "Talk to me." Lesbian News, 28(10): 59.
• Kuethe, J.L., and Stricker, G. "Man and woman: Social schemata of males and females." Psychological Reports, 13, 655-661.
• Little, K.B. "Cultural variations in social schemata." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 10, 1-7.

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