Making Social Worlds
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Making Social Worlds

A Communication Perspective

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eBook - PDF

Making Social Worlds

A Communication Perspective

About this book

Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM – Coordinated Management of Meaning – one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication.

  • Draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech communication
  • Defines the 'critical moments' of communication for students and practitioners; encouraging us to view communication as a two-sided process of coordinating actions and making/managing meanings
  • Questions how we can intervene in dangerous or undesirable patterns of communication that will result in better social worlds

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. An Invitation . . .
  3. Extended to . . .
  4. Everyone
  5. Students
  6. Professionals
  7. With Appreciation for . . .
  8. Chapter 1 Critical Moments that Shape Our Social Worlds
  9. Preview
  10. A Critical Moment in a 911 Emergency Telephone Call
  11. Why Acting Wisely in Critical Moments is Important: We’re in a Race that We Need to Win
  12. 9/11: A Missed Opportunity to Act Wisely in a Critical Moment
  13. What happened?
  14. How was the story told?
  15. How did President Bush respond?
  16. Could President Bush have responded in another way?
  17. Examples of acting wisely in critical moments
  18. Could President Bush have acted more wisely in the critical moment of 9/11?
  19. Chapter 2 Taking a Communication Perspective on Social Worlds
  20. Preview
  21. Everybody Has a Theory of Communication, Although Most People Don’t Know It
  22. If Communication is so Important, How Should We Understand It?
  23. My Discovery of Social Worlds
  24. Social worlds
  25. The worldliness of social worlds
  26. There are many social worlds
  27. Social worlds are made
  28. Each of us is an agent in the process of making social worlds
  29. Questions Asked by Those who Take a Communication Perspective on Social Worlds
  30. Chapter 3 Paradigms and the “Physics” of Social Worlds
  31. Preview
  32. What was That?
  33. Paradigms
  34. Questions and Questioning
  35. Playfulness
  36. Systemic
  37. Process
  38. Emergent Characteristics
  39. Chapter 4 Communication: Coordinating Actions and Making/Managing Meanings
  40. Preview
  41. Theory as a Way of Seeing Things
  42. Coordinating Actions
  43. Choosing “coordination” as a sensitizing concept for understanding communication
  44. Understanding how patterns of communication develop and discerning critical moments
  45. Acting wisely in critical moments
  46. Making/Managing Meaning
  47. Coherence: the gift of meaning and purpose
  48. Subjugation: the cost of fitting into prefigured molds
  49. Mystery: the gift of wonder and openings for exploration
  50. Communication as the Site where Social Worlds are Made
  51. Chapter 5 Doing Things in Communication: Speech Acts
  52. Preview
  53. Speech Acts and the Quality of Our Lives
  54. Our Social Worlds are Made of Speech Acts
  55. Why call them “speech acts”?
  56. How many speech acts are there?
  57. Where do speech acts come from?
  58. Speech Acts are Made in Coordinated Actions
  59. Performing Speech Acts
  60. What is being done by what is said? Conversational implicature
  61. To what is that a response? The conversational triplet
  62. What can/must/should I do? Logical force
  63. What is the wisest course of action? Ante-narrative
  64. Making Better Social Worlds
  65. Change the situation so that there will be a different ratio of speech acts
  66. Resist or prevent the performance of undesired speech acts
  67. Facilitating or enabling the performance of desired speech acts
  68. Chapter 6 Episodes and Patterns of Communication
  69. Preview
  70. Social Life is Episodic
  71. Our Social Worlds are Made of Episodes
  72. Making Episodes
  73. Making/managing meaning: perceiving the flow of experience as episodes
  74. Realizing episodes in coordinated action
  75. Patterns of Communication
  76. Making Better Social Worlds
  77. Freeing us up so that we can make wiser choices
  78. Calling better patterns of communication into being
  79. Chapter 7 Selves and Forms of Consciousness
  80. Preview
  81. Here I Am!
  82. Selves are Made in Processes of Communication
  83. Forms of Consciousness Emerge in Processes of Communication
  84. The Role of Selves in Making Social Worlds
  85. Making Better Social Worlds
  86. Is there an innate impulse toward evolution of consciousness?
  87. Is there a special kind of transformative learning?
  88. How can we support each other in our zones of proximal development?
  89. How can we structure our institutions so that they support the evolution of consciousness?
  90. Can we take proactive steps to structure better forms of communication?
  91. Chapter 8 Relationships and Relational Minds
  92. Preview
  93. The Difference between Being Related and Being in Relationship
  94. Relationships and Minds as Objects in Our Social Worlds
  95. Relationships as Contexts for the Way We Communicate
  96. Making Relationships in Communication
  97. The Evolution of Relational Minds
  98. Making Better Social Worlds
  99. Chapter 9 Afterword: Something of a Guide for Using CMM
  100. Warning!
  101. Ways of “Using” CMM
  102. How Do You Know if You’ve Used CMM Well?
  103. A Typical Four-phase Sequence in Using CMM
  104. Description
  105. Interpretation
  106. Critique
  107. Putting it into practice
  108. Entry Points for CMM Practice
  109. An Example of Consulting Using Systemic Questioning
  110. This is a Test . . .
  111. Index