Com Chap 12
Terms
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- family
- unit made up of any number of persons who live or have lived in relationship with on another over time in a common living space and who are usually, but not always, united by marriage and kinship
- natural family
- mother, father, and their biological children
- blended family
- two adults and their children. because of divorce, seperation, death, or adoption, the children may be the offspring of other parents, or of just one of the adults who is raising them
- single-parent family
- one parent raising one or more children
- extended family
- relatives such as aunts, uncles, cousins, or gradparents and/or unrelated persons who are a part of a family unit
- family of orgin
- family in which a person is raised
- circumplex model of family interaction
- model of the relationship among family adaptability, cohesion, and communication
- adaptability
- a family's ability to modify and respond to changes in the family's power structure and roles
- cohesion
- the emotional bonding and feelings of togetherness that families experience
- computer-mediated communication (CMC)
- communication between and among people thorugh the medium of computers (email, chat, message boards)
- synchronous interaction
- interaction in which participants are actively engaging at the same time
- asynchronous interaction
- interaction in which participants send and receive messages from each other with delays between reception and response
- computer-supported social netword (CSSN)
- a virtual community created by networking amound individuals through CMS
- quid pro quo
- latin phrase that can be used to describe a type of sexual harassmen. "you do something for me and i'll do something for you"
- upward communication
- communication that flows from subordinates to superiors
- downward communication
- communication that flows from superiors to subordinates
- hostile envrionment
- type of sexual harassment in which an employee's rights are threatenend through offensive workign conditions or behavior on the part of other workers
- horizontal communication
- communication among colleagues or cowordersa tthe same level within an organization
- outward commuinication
- communication that flows to those outside an organization (such as customers)