Coordinated Management of Meaning You provide an apt summary with a comprehensive list of key terms Theory Author Date Theory Summary Pearce and Cronen 1982 Senders and receivers co create meaning in the messages they send to each other Rules are used to coordinate meaning and those rules facilitate communication between people Coordinated management of meaning focuses on the self and its relationship to others and how people assign meaning to messages Key Terms Social Constructionism belief that people co construct their social reality in Social Reality a person s beliefs about how meaning and action fit within an Personal Meaning the meaning achieved when a person brings his or her unique Interpersonal Meaning the result when two people agree on each other s conversations interpersonal interaction experience to an interaction interpretations of an interaction Content the conversion of raw data into meaning Speech Act action we perform by speaking Episodes communication routines that have recognized beginnings middles ends Punctuate how individuals interpret or emphasize an episode Relationship agreement and understanding between two people Enmeshment extent to which partners identify themselves as part of a system Life Scripts clusters of past or present episodes that create a system of manageable meanings with others Cultural Patterns images of the world and a person s relationship to it Individualism prioritizing personal needs or values over the needs or values of a group Collectivism group needs over individual needs Coordination making sense of message sequencing Resources stories symbols and images that people use to make sense of their world Constructive Rules organize behavior help understand how meaning should be interpreted Regulative Rules guidelines for people s behavior Unwanted Repetitive Patterns URPs recurring undesirable conflicts in relationship Loop the reflexiveness of levels of hierarchy of meaning Charmed Loop rules of meaning are consistent throughout the loop Strange Loop rules of meaning change within the loop Evaluation Scope The theory is pretty broad but it has been refined since its inception in 1982 Logical Consistency The theory is logically consistent Parsimony The theory is fairly simple to understand but it has a broad scope which Utility The theory is useful in observing the self and how individuals achieve meaning can lead to difficulties during interactions Testability It would be difficult to test the theory Heurism The theory is very heuristic and is used in many fields Test of Time The theory was introduced in 1982 and been used across different spectrums since then This evaluation demonstrates your knowledge of the theory The CMM is not testable with standard experiments but is a useful concept to guide observational methods 5 5