coordinated management of meaning
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cmmCoordinated Management of Meaning
introtheoristbackgroundphilosophy
Barnett is both a scholar and practitioner. He has written seven books and over one hundred articles and chapters. He was a Senior Visiting Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford University, in 1989, and a Fulbright Fellow in Argentina in 1997. Before retiring from Fielding Graduate University in 2008, he was a member of the faculty at the University of North Dakota, University of Kentucky, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Loyola University Chicago, serving as Chair of the Departments of Communication at Massachusetts and Loyola. He has a Ph.D. from Ohio University.
As a practitioner, he works as consultant, coach, facilitator and trainer. He follows the maxim that if we get the pattern of communication right, the best possible things will happen. He strives to create the preconditions for dialogic communication,working in communities, business and nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions. His work has taken him to North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa.
We create the world we live in and that world creates us.
W. Barnett Pearce
Cybernetic.Socio-Cultural.Phenomonological.
Interpretive.Critical.Practical.meta
The single most powerful tool ever invented for the construction of social worlds.W. Barnett Pearce
Language
Notions Suppositions
core claimsapplications
Our communication creates our social worlds.-1
Persons-in-conversation co-construct their own social realities and are simultaneously shaped by the worlds they create.
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The stories we tell differ from the stories we live.-
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Stories lived are the co-constructed actions that we perform with others.
Stories told are the narratives that we tell internally.
The stories we tell and the stories we live are always tangled together, yet forever in tension.
Of Facts & Fiction
Storied Lived
Untold, UnknownUnheard, Untellable
Stories Told
Intentional meshing of stories lived doesn’t require people to reach agreement on the meaning of their joint action. They can decide to coordinate their behavior without sharing a common interpretation of the event.
Coordination-
The stories that we tell that make our lives meaningful. These stories are the primary elements of meaning-making.
Coherence-
The manner in which we acknowledge mystery exerts a profound effect on our communications - from repressive inquisitions to beautiful visions.
Mystery-
LUUUT Model-
Serpentine & Heirarchical-
Strange Loop Model-
We get what we make.-3
We imagine how others see us.
We imagine the judgment of that appearance.
We react based on these perceived judgments.
Through the Looking Glass-
Impossible to fully articulate the meaning of any one action. Tomorrow’s social reality is the afterlife of today’s interactions and communication.
Ad Infinitum-
Getting the pattern right creates better outcomes.-
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They are participant observers willing to step back and look for places in the conversational flow where they can say or do something that will make the situation better for everyone involved.
Mindfulness-
Coordination + Coherence + Mindfulness
Better Social Worlds-
Of ClarityConfusion
Provides new understanding of people.Allows clarication of values. There is community of agreement. Enables reform of society.
Not spawned new theoretical developments. Lack of aesthetic appeal & parsimony.
Universality gets in the way of structure.
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