Question

Communication is constitutive, which means

A. Communication is the key to family happiness.

B. Communication constructs the relationships between family members.

C. Communication displays the family’s interactions.

D. Communication patterns cross generations.

True or False Questions:

1. The Communication Privacy Management Theory identifies four concepts that guide the privacy rule management process: 1.  Boundary Rule Usage, 2. Boundary Rule Formation, 3. Boundary Rule Function, and 4. Boundary Rule Coordination.

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2.Meanings attached to relational currencies have a direct impact on relationship development

3.Insistence on maintaining rituals from the previous families can threaten the new stepfamily.

4.The all-channel network maintains the parents at the center of the network.

5. Family rules are heavily influenced by ethnic backgrounds

6.  Equifinality is the principle that in open systems a given end state can be reached by many potential means.

Answer 1

• Communication is constitutive, which means communication constructs the relationships between family members. .To take a constitutive view of communication means to presume that communication, or interaction, is a process of meaning creation or social construction.
• Family communication is the mechanism for most early childhood socialization experiences. It is by observing and interacting with family members in childhood that most people learn to communicate and construct personal and relational identities as communicators.
• Families are formed, maintained, and dissolved through the use of communication. This constitutive view of communication places communicative interaction at the core of familial experience. This view of family communication assumes that people socially construct their relationships and interactions through their communication and that communication is a situated, multiparty accomplishment.
• 1.False;The theory proposes that there are three processes of boundary management. First, ‘boundary rule formation’ stipulates that people develop rules to regulate when and under what circumstances they will reveal rather than withhold information.Second, ‘boundary coordination’ refers to the process of negotiating privacy rules between partners, for example, whether disclosed information can be revealed to others outside the relationship.
• As part of the coordination process, individuals enact rules to moderate boundary linkages (whether to link to others), boundary ownership rights (who should be included or excluded in the boundary), and boundary permeability (what information may be revealed to whom).
• Third, ‘boundary turbulence’ may result from differences in privacy rules used by individuals, privacy rule violations, or deficient boundary coordination, for example, when one partner shares
  information outside the relationship that violates the other partner’s expectations.
• 2.The statement is true;Meanings attached to relational currencies have a direct impact on relationship development
  
• 3.The statement is true;Insistence on maintaining rituals from the previous families can threaten the new stepfamily.
• 4.The statement is false;The all-channel network maintains the parents at the center of the network.
  
• 5.The statement is true;Family rules are heavily influenced by ethnic backgrounds
• 6.The statement is true;Equifinality is the principle that in open systems a given end state can be reached by many potential means. The term and concept is due to Hans Driesch, the developmental biologist.