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Social Penetration Theory

When we talked about social penetration theory, is a communication which develops person intimacy into a deeper interpretation and understand one’s complexity. It is the understanding of human behavior step by step in knowing thoughts, feelings and actions to people we communicate with.
The theorist Alman and Taylor relies in to a layered onion, which demonstrates the personality of a person.

For me, my inner personality depicts on what are my secrets, fears, goals and even my spiritual relationship which is, it’s a hard fo me to share to other person because I’m not sure if that person is a keeper or not. It’s so hard for me to choose who I wanted to deal with my inner thoughts especially if I don’t like the attitude of that person towards me. And the outer layer depicts the personality that we are showing to others and it depends on the time and place. Example, if you meet somebody on a department store, buying the same thing that you also wanted to buy, then he/she shares the reason why he wants to buy the stuff to his/herself and ended up in talking to personal life. But the thing is, you talked to personal life but you did not reveal the core of your life.

The disclosure to another is time to time which you’ll know someone based how long did know each other.The concept of this theory is we based our relationship or the closeness to other person wi develops from time to time. Sometimes if we can’t reveal or we can’t find our true personality the relationship unto others also is not in good.

Constructivism

In constuctivism, people construct knowledge and meaning through his/ her experiences in life. It is reflecting experience of the people which is a basis to gain more knowledge via reflecting to its past or its present. People acquire new ideas, concepts and basis which the reality is determined by your own witnesses.

I have a hard time in learning how to ride a bike before. When my brother teaches me, I’m easily get nervous which is, he always gives me pressure when I step on the bike. I didn’t learn via his help, instead I learn riding a bike on my own, because the more you have the potential to learn, the more you are about to learn. But the concept of learning to ride on a bike is through also to my brother, which is, if he didn’t pressure me, I didn’t have the potential to learn.

The best way to learn is through experience. Thus, people creates actively in creating each own represtation of reality.

Expectancy Violations Theory

When we talked about Expectancy Violations Theory, it is said to be the unexpected behavior of someone’s thought and action on a particular situation. It could be based on human interaction and someone will predict or expect something positive , maybe negative perception for a certain things. There’s the feeling that anticipating for a situation wether the behavior of that particular person could result into good or the effect could be inimical.

Everytime I go out, somethimes, i did not asking permission for my parents to go to anywhere. There is this guilt for me which I’m afraid to go home since I did not ask authorization for them to go out, I feel like they will scold or they will do worst after when I’m home. I usually scratch my elbows, which a superstitious belief for us for not be able to get angry when you return home, when I’m on my way home. The pressage feeling inside of me, which I felt nervous to go back home. There when I’m inside the house already, they just ask me where I went and acts like nothing happened. In the end, they are just reminding me that if I’m about to go out and leave the house I will let them notice where I want to go.

Therefore, there is the relationship of unexpected behavior of a person interprets there. Behavior amd thoughts of a certain person is so hard to expect. Sometimes, your closes person’s gives you the freedom to anticipate negative and positive unexpected behavior.

Coordinated Management of Meaning

The Coordinated Management of Meaning deals with social communication which develops preposition on social reality.
In a situation, that your sitmate from the classroom talking to your other classmates.But since you have something to ask for, you even distract their communication. And seems the two conversations collide, your classmate didn’t understood the question you are about to ask. All in all there is a social communication in there but the situation it comprised an action and the reaction was not successful. Different people interpretations for things, thus it creates different interpretation on how you communicate with.

Symbolic Interactionism

We should always be affected of thoughts because it is a premises for our communication. Symbolic interactionism focuses on language, gestures and symbols and tend to give meaning on situation and realizations in life. In a situation, you grew up in a poor family which is you only eat once a day, where in you are all 8 members in a family. And being the oldest sibling, sometimes your parents tend to force you to give your food and have more attention to your younger siblings which is sometimes it is against your will, since you need to eat food also.


In that everyday situation, it is unavoidable to think that your parents loves and cares you siblings than you. And because of that, you feel that your parents most infavorable to your younger siblings. You are doing such ways to hate your siblings by your parents, like sabotaging your siblings in doing household chores. If your sisters and brothers finish their work, you soil their finish doings and your parents will scold because they think their not doing their business at all. With that doing, your parent notices you’re already in jealous that’s why your parents think a way to talk to you and making you understand that you are all equal and you also realized things, that you need to sacrifice for those who needed most.On this experience it gives a way to communicate with your parents from your annoyance to your siblings and these builds harder relationship to the family and also all the people experiencing it.