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Foundations of Relationships (Vocabulary: (Personal relationships: meet…
Foundations of Relationships
Key Ideas:
Stages of Relational Interaction
Initiating
Experimenting
Intensifying
Integrating
Bonding
Differentiating
Circumscribing
Stagnating
Avoiding
Terminating
Social Exchange Theory
Vocabulary:
Personal relationships
: meet emotional, relational, and instrumental needs, as they are intimate, close, and interdependent relationships such as those we have with best friends, partners, or immediate family.
Social relationships
: are relationships that occasionally meet our needs and lack the closeness and interdependence of personal relationships.
Initiating stage
: people size each other up and try to present themselves favorably.
experimenting stage
: where people exchange information and often move from strangers to acquaintances, to the “sniffing ritual” of animals.
intensifying stage
: we indicate that we would like or are open to more intimacy, and then we wait for a signal of acceptance before we attempt more intimacy.
integrating stage
: two people’s identities and personalities merge, and a sense of interdependence develops.
bonding stage
: includes a public ritual that announces formal commitment.
differentiating stage
: Differentiating is the reverse of integrating, as we and our reverts back to I and my.
circumscribing stage
: communication decreases and certain areas or subjects become restricted as individuals verbally close themselves off from each other.
stagnating stage
: the relationship may come to a standstill, as individuals basically wait for the relationship to end.
avoiding stage
: may be a way to end the awkwardness that comes with stagnation, as people signal that they want to close down the lines of communication.
terminating stage
: can occur shortly after initiation or after a ten- or twenty-year relational history has been established.
Social exchange theory
: essentially entails a weighing of the costs and rewards in a given relationship.
Relationships can be easily distinguished into personal or social and voluntary or involuntary.
Personal relationships are close, intimate, and interdependent, meeting many of our interpersonal needs.
Social relationships meet some interpersonal needs but lack the closeness of personal relationships.