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A Message Is Only One Part of Communication

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EXPLAINER @jorgebscomm for @empowervmedia Photo: Artem Podrez via Pexels · Pexels License Communication is not only information moving from sender to receiver. Meaning also develops through interaction, relationships and the contexts in which people meet. “ Can we talk?” is only three words, but the message surely is not finished when the sentence is spoken. Said by a friend, a manager or a stranger online, it arrives with different expectations. Tone, history, relationship and setting matter. That is why communication is more than sending messages. Human communication involves people interpreting one another within relationships, roles, norms and environments that shape what can be said, heard and done. Communication as a layered interaction The message matters, but it is only one part of the communication event. ...
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Does Society Shape You, or Do You Shape Society? Social Psychology vs Psycho-Sociology

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@jorgebscomm for @empowervmedia [Image: Unsplash ] T wo disciplines study the relationship between the individual and the social world. They share overlapping territory, use some of the same concepts, and are frequently confused with one another. But they ask fundamentally different questions, come from different intellectual traditions, and produce different kinds of knowledge. Social psychology and psycho-sociology are not interchangeable terms. Understanding the distinction matters for anyone trying to think carefully about human behaviour and about which tools are most useful for which problems. "Social psychology asks how society gets inside the individual. Psycho-sociology asks how the individual gets inside society." Social psychology: the individual in social context Social psychology is a discipline rooted primarily in psychology (though it draws on sociology) and its foundational question is: how do social situations, other people, and group membership...
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