communication 3

 

Activity 3 - Relationships Within Families

Reading Assignment: (Galvin, Braithwaite, & Bylund)

Chapter 5 - Relational Maintenance within Families

Discussion Activity 

1.  Describe your own family's ethnic and spiritual background and how these values are evident in your family.  How does this background influence your family's communication?

2.  Interview someone from another culture to describe the most significant relational strategies in their culture and the relational strategies used in U.S. culture that would not be appropriate in his or her own culture.