Critical Tradition:

-power imbalances

Dialogic Ethics:

-maintaining tension

-relates to CMM

Social Penetration:

-looking for close personal relationship

-layers

The Cybernetic Tradition:

-information processing

-how do we get bugs out of this system

Mind, Self and Society:

-book about Symbolic Interactionism

-students' notes

Phenomenological Theory:

-analysis of experiences

-inner feelings vs outer display

Socio-Cultural Tradition:

-language shapes culture

Socio-Psychological Tradition:

-seeks to discover "com truths"

-predict if behaviors will succeed/fail

Coordinated Management of Meaning:

-if you can't create a perfect world, create a livable one

-if can't achieve coherence, get coordination

Social Exchange Theory:

-cost-benefit analysis

-evaluating alternatives

Constructivism:

-cognitive complexity

-using com to achieve multiple goals while maintaining r.ship

Ethical Egoism:

-moral judgements should be in best self-interest

-max-pleasure, min-pain

Symbolic Interactionism:

-spontaneous "I", socially formed "me"

-meaning comes out of social interaction

Communication Privacy Management Theory:

-every relationships have boundaries of the feelings we share and don't

Semiotic Tradition:

-meanings reside in the mind of the listener, not the word

Uncertainty Reduction Theory:

-reduce uncertainty about relationship

-information seeking

Relational Dialectics:

-relationship is like a child you must put effort in and care for

Interactional View:

-dysfunctional families

-system where behavior of the one affects the whole

Social Judgement Theory:

-we have attitudes/latitudes on everything

-anchor point

Elaboration Likelihood:

-likeliness of elaborating on message heard

-central (cognitive) and peripheral (affective) routes

Paradox:(relational dialectics)

-dialectical tension

-thesis, antithesis, synthesis

Cognitive Dissonance Theory

-an unpleasant state of arousal

-more difficult to change attitude than behavior

Cognitive Dissonance

-dissonance is created when you

feel responsible for an event

Cognitive Dissonance

people are motivated by maintaining 

an overall moral self-image

Information Systems Approach

to Organizations

-organizations exist in an always changing environment

-Act!

-maintain tension

-based on Darwinism

Cultural Approach to

Organizations

-interpretive theory

-ethnographical research: thick descriptions

taught people how to use

language to persuade

system needs to be controlled by

good, wise people

Rhetoric

-the truth will always win

-rhetorical proofs

dialectic

beauty of words

using rhetoric as a critical tool

to defend yourself

dramatistic pentad

Narrative Paradigm

-narrative is the basis of all human

communication

Media Ecology

-the prevailing technology influences how people

think and behave; not the content

the Empire and Communication

Narrative Paradigm

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Narative Paradigm

opposing to cognitive dissonance

we determine our attitudes by observing our own behavior

-emphasis on specialization

-people are expendable

-human relations

-people are most important

human beings act on things based on the meanings they have for them

an organization is a culture

-we live our lives forward and interpret them backwards

-interpreting past events

-carry management idealogy

-reenforce company policy

positive or negative anecdotes about the people in the organization

how things REALLY work

-courtroom

-convincing the improbablity of your guiltiness

-political discourse

-policy oriented

-debate

-ceremonial

-honoring or blaming someone

Invention

Arangement

Style

Memory

Delivery

the virtue of moderation

avoiding extremes

Tension

Victimage

Scapegoating

Mortification

Act

Scene
Agent

Agency

Purpose

a deal with the devil

selling your soul for temporary earthly gain