Human Relations Theories: Knowing Yourself Human relation theories communicated in this course have essential relevance and substance. Expanded themes written on self-disclosure, self-awareness and self-acceptance have shown how they can be important in one’s personal and professional life. However, unless entire populations are taught and choose to consciously apply these strategies in their interactions, an individual’s singular effort to implement is futile. It is highly unrealistic that people are motivated enough to take the necessary time and effort to learn and practice many of these ideals. While I can state that I do agree with many of the philosophies that have been noted, I do not feel that they are an ongoing functional asset to my life at this point in time. Self-Disclosure According to the writings of Reece (2014), letting myself be known by others is an area of unveiling I need to enhance. In the past, I have disclosed to others my wants and feelings, but these thoughts have not been important or made a difference to them. I am content in keeping relationships at a distance and having vague circumstantial conversations. One becomes vulnerable when they trust others. Because of past occurrences from the ill use of my personal data for opportuneness and disillusionments from professed confidences, I choose not to take this risk. Admittedly, keeping my feelings and thoughts bottled-up does produce some stress (Reece, 2014, p.165). However, dissipation of
In the article “In Defense of Prejudice: Why Incendiary Speech Must Be Protected” Jonathan Rauch says that regardless of the amount of times people try, its almost impossible to stop prejudice. Rauch believes that everyone has the right to express themselves freely, whether their opinion maybe good or bad people still have the right to express themselves. Where there’s freedom of expression, there will also be negative racial comments. In this article Rauch talks about how schools banned prejudice and how they prevented it, prejudice can’t be eradicated because it exist within our minds, and how banning prejudice is impossible and idiotic. Rauch says, “Indeed, "eradicating prejudice" is so vague a proposition as to be meaningless.”
Andrew Clark’s own self-disclosure leads to the reciprocity of self-disclosure, in which other students begin to open up about themselves to each other. In order
The whole point of chapter 2 “looking out looking in” by Ronald B. Adler was about communication and its self , presenting the self:communication as identity management, self-disclosure in relationships, and alternatives to self-disclosure. Self-concept is simply how we perceive our self .How we all see and define ourselves not just that but how we understand ourselves. While our self-image is the descriptive side of our self-concept ,the self-esteem is the evaluated side, which means that it’s much more value and worth .Identity management deals with identifying individuals such as their appearance and manner , how they would interact. Self-disclosure is the process in which the person reveals about him or her self it may include their
Humanistic theories emerged in 1950s. We have two types of humanistic theories, the first one is Person-centred theory by Carl Rogers which is based on how people see them-selves in relation to their personal experience and the second theory is Self-actualisation by Abraham Maslow which is based on the needs that motivate people. In this paper both theories will be described in detail and also they will be evaluated.
Carl R. Rogers is known as the founding father of person-centered therapy. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1902 to a devoted Christian and a civil engineer (Rogers, Kirschenbaum, & Land, 2001). In 1922 Rogers began to doubt his religious teaching from early on in life, he sought a more liberal education at the Union Theological Seminary (Rogers, Kirschenbaum, & Land, 2001). After two years he left to attend Columbia University to study clinical and education psychology. Rogers went on to write four major books: The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child (1939), Counseling and Psychotherapy: New Concepts in Practice (1942), Client-Centered Therapy (1951), and Psychotherapy and Personality (Rogers & Dymond, 1954) (Walsh, 2010; Patterson, 2007).
The Boston office of Campbell and Bailyn has seen success over the years but was struck by a collapse in the mortgage backed securities market for six months in 2007.
Self-disclosure is an important part of any close relationship. Without sharing our own fears and weaknesses, we can
Self-disclosure is the voluntary sharing of personal history, preferences, attitudes, feelings, values, secrets, etc. with another person (Griffin, p. 97). As stated in the introduction Altman and Taylor look at relationships as an “onions.” The different layers are representative of different feelings of a person. When
However, there are cases people can refuse self-awareness. According to Maslow (1962), people avoid acquiring new knowledge about themselves because of the uncertain and uncomfortable feelings they can receive (as cited in Whetten & Cameron, 2011). Whetten and Cameron (2011) believe dis-closure is the key for people to overcome that panic. By discussing one’s own aspects with others, people can reduce the ambiguity of problems. For instance, through exchanging results of self-analysis toolkits in Developing Self seminars, people can be more aware of their own strengths and weaknesses as well as receive feedbacks from others. Their Johari Window of what I know and what others know can be more extended.
The realizations I have on self disclosure is that, it is one way of letting my self go. Letting another human being know my inner most feelings and my fears. I am a very private person and I tend to not say much about myself unless I know the person very well. I tend to not to like people who disclose a lot of information to me mainly if we do not have a very close relationship, because to me that means I also have to let them in on some of my inner most feelings. I feel like even if they are a lot of advantages to self-
In this paper I will apply the conflict theory on social inequality in genders. Social isseus starts from fundamental problems inside society and it reflects inequality as a result. Disparities between the sexual orientations constitute a different measurement of imbalance and a pervasive rule for circulation of life chances which can't be credited to a solitary cause. Two spaces are of remarkable significance: the job framework and family life. The other focal part of disparities between the sexes concerns the part in the family or in the gang. Autonomous from their utilized position, ladies are a great deal more responsible for family and housework than men. The division of work in the family makes ladies in charge of youngsters and, notwithstanding
In 1973 social psychologists Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor formulated a process, the social penetration theory, that aimed to explain how people develop and move through relationships. Their theory predicts that relationships with friends and lovers move in a “gradual and orderly fashion from superficial to intimate levels of exchange as a function of both immediate and forecast outcomes.” (Griffin, 2011, p. 97) Through gradual amounts of mutual self-disclosure people form interpersonal relationships. People don’t tend to disclose personal information automatically they remain protective over the details that may reveal their true self. It takes time to reveal any true life-altering experiences with someone you’ve just met. In order to completely
Individuals have different levels of disclosure and when combined with another individual’s disclosure level can have positive or negative outcomes. The decision to communicate can also cause uncertainty within relationships. Prior research was conducted to try and measure what exactly causes the uncertainty and negative results to show up in a relationship. Intimacy, security, problematic events, and irritations are all different elements that can be stronger or weaker in the relationship based on the disclosure (Theiss and Solomon 2006).
Self-acceptance is an extremely prevalent issue that numerous people struggle with. It is one of the hardest to surmount, for it is something I still struggle with to this day. Overall, my journey is a working progress as it will perpetuate to have its downfalls to test me. Like many of my generation, social media has played an excessively paramount role in our lives, both negatively and positively. Sources of harmless entertainment have also unintentionally encouraged self-judgment. Be that as it may, my perspective has been widely opened unexpectedly through a speaker’s presentation as she showed us how to recognize our self-worth. Confidence and self-esteem are hard to acquire for some, but it should not be a quantity you divest yourself of. Self-acceptance of all insecurities and doubts is paramount since every individual has a unique beauty that should be cherished in order to pursue a life full of love and jubilance.
Evaluating my own reflection was indeed something hard to do until I started learning Human Relations. Without self-awareness and self-disclosure, one can’t see his own reflection. It’s like a mirage in the dessert. We assume that something is there, but it won’t be there. And others mostly won’t envision the views we perceive. We may even have different opinions and may end up in fights.