Week 2 Question 1

1. Social constructionist perspective defined communication in a much broader way. “Communication is not something that goes on between individuals; instead, communication is something that surrounds people and hold their world together”(29). Communication is a process; a process that create meanings of the world we lived in; our language, our beliefs, our values and how we act according to our roles. Through this communication process, we create our world, defined our worlds and we get to experience it, “This perspective points out that most of what we know and believe about the world comes to us through communication rather than through direct experience” (30). Basically, we communicate as individuals and through that process we create a sense of our world. In the Western culture, we value individualism. We encourage individual achievement and we educate our children to be unique and special. The idea of individualism directly affects us as people of this nation; US is one of the leading countries in the world.