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Abdelhamid Yaacoubi Relating
Abdelhamid Yaacoubi Relating
Definition
These two example show that the individual and the social phenomena are
interdependent, but at the same time they are distinct and functionally
contradictory poles in that:
These two opposite poles are then unified because what is social presupposes what
is individual and vise versa, and they entwine in Ying and Yang dialectical sense
Yin and Yang: is an Ancient Chinese philosophy that implies the existence of a
universal balance of opposite and complementary principles. It is a concept of
dualism , describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be
complementary, interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how
they may give rise to each other when they interrelate to one another
Two perspectives in conceptualizing relating
3- Organismic orientation: assumes that the unit of analysis is the total system, and
individual unites cannot be studied apart from the whole
4- Transactional orientation: states that a system is a whole that cannot be broken up
into and is not made up of separate parts
5- Dialectical orientation: it shares all the commitments of the transactional orientation,
and focuses on the dynamic tensions between dialectically contradictions in explaining the
pattern or organization observed in the flow of events
Methods for studying relating in
interpersonal pragmatics
the methods vary depending on the type of relationship, but the methods the
analyst adopt for collecting data should always be consistent with the
theoretical and epistemological assumptions entailed in his conceptualization of
the phenomenon under investigation.
1. Encoding/decoding models: the psychological states or meanings and actions
of of the sender and the receiver are independent
2- Interactional achievement methods: the psychological states of or meanings
and actions of the sender and the receiver become interdependent as they engage in
talk/conduct in interaction
3- individually based, self-report methods: collection of data directly from the
relational partners