A Dialectical Analysis of the Tensions, Functions, and Strategic Challenges of Communication in Young Adult Friendships

Rawlins, William K.

doi:10.1080/23808985.1989.11678717

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“…A dialectical perspective calls attention to the contradictory, interpenetrating, and changing aspects of advising situations, which are continually achieved through participants' praxis, their active choices shaping and responding to concrete conditions (Rawlins, 1989). Interaction in relationships generates and addresses multiple contradictions that emerge over time and in light of their position within enveloping social contexts.…”

Section: A Theoretical Approach To Communication Friendship and Acamentioning

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“…The existence of opposing demands means that certain tensions are common in advising relationships. In our discussion below we consider such tensions as subtle dilemmas that participants must manage effectively through praxis for advising relationships to remain viable as friendships (Rawlins, 1989). …”

Section: A Theoretical Approach To Communication Friendship and Acamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our theoretical approach is based on published work concerning the dialectics of communication and friendship (Rawlins, 1989(Rawlins, , 1992(Rawlins, , 2000(Rawlins, , 2004. We emphasize that friendship, whether dyadic or community based, is always a communicative achievement.…”

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Academic Advising as Friendship

Rawlins

2005

NACADA Journal

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We present a theoretical basis for engaging in academic advising as friendship and offer examples of the applicability of friendship in advising. We begin with interconnections between civic friendship and personal friendship in the context of academic advising. Next we overview theoretical work on communication and friendship that offers characteristics and ideals of friendship relevant to academic advising. Then we provide a dialectical framework describing six tensions that potentially emerge in the advising relationship viewed as a friendship. We argue that advisors and advisees must negotiate the tensions and benefits that potentially arise from practicing the academic advising relationship as friendship.

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2005

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“…Nationalism is the primary source of group identity in the modern state: it is the idea that a person derives a significant part of his identity from a sense of belonging to a nation; states try to create allegiance to keep country stable: want their populace to accept the ideology, adhere to laws, participate in its operation; icons -flags, national sports teams, holidays (Rawlins, 1988). …”

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Communication Concepts vs. Sciences Concepts

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Teodorescu

2014

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The scientists as Bateson, Watzlawick expresses the determining role of interaction in the axiom of the "impossibility of not communicating". All behavior (verbal and nonverbal) occurring between persons who are conscious of each other's presence has behavioural effects, whether intended or not. Such effects have interpersonal message value, and thus are communicative in nature. Since it is impossible for humans not to behave in one way or another, it follows that in interaction it is impossible not to communicate (Bateson, 1963;Watzlawick et al., 1967). Communication theory is relatively new as science and interacts with the other disciplines of sciences. During its development some of the notions were used that were already committed and comprehensive. This article aims to present some of them. Terms as system, input, output, feedback, entropy specific to scientific disciplines as systems theory, cybernetics, information theory, physics, are especially used in communication theory.

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“…For example, Rawlins's (1989Rawlins's ( , 1992Rawlins's ( , 2009) work has cut a path for communication studies scholars to research qualitatively the contextual and interactional dialectics of friendships. Notably, dialectic theories on friendship examine the contradictory elements within these relationships (Baxter and Montgomery, 1996).…”

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Researching workplace friendships

Rumens

2016

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Although organizational research on workplace friendships is well established, it has been criticized for its predominately postpositivistic outlook, which largely focuses on how workplace friendships can be linked to improving organizational outcomes such as efficiency and performance. As a consequence, other aspects of the lived experiences of work and friendship are obscured, in particular how these friendships are important in their own right and how they function as social and personal relationships. Supplementing postpositivistic research on workplace friendships, this article shows how researchers can derive theoretical insights from a “sociology of friendship.” The main contribution of this article relates to the development of a sociology of workplace friendship that understands the porous and mutable nature of these relationships and considers the social and personal factors that influence their role, place and meaning in the workplace. As such, three sociological frames of analysis are elaborated that encourage researchers to examine friendships at work as a set of contextually contingent social practices and as historically patterned social and personal relationships. This article articulates an agenda of research to inspire and guide researchers using these frames, one potential outcome of which is generating much needed scholarship that explores how workplace friendships contribute to human flourishing.

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A Dialectical Analysis of the Tensions, Functions, and Strategic Challenges of Communication in Young Adult Friendships

Cited by 48 publications

References 7 publications

Academic Advising as Friendship

Academic Advising as Friendship

Communication Concepts vs. Sciences Concepts

Researching workplace friendships

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