What Is Group Communication

Published by communicationtype, on Mar 09 2010, in the categories: Definition, types of communication


Communication is notice, news, connection, relation, report. In the explanatory dictionary for communication we find these synonyms. Although it seems simple, the meaning of communication is more complex. It has many meanings, a variety of purposes and about as many was of expression and manifestation. There is no concrete definition of communication but at least we can say that communication means the international transmission of information data.

Communication is:  a constant challenge to social psychology;activity;  link between people;  meet individual needs. The society continues to exist by transmission, by communication but is fair to say that it exists in the transmission and communication. The people are living in the community by virtue of the things they have in common and the communication is how they get to have things in common. To form a community or a society, people must share the same goals, aspirations, beliefs, knowledge. Communication is the thing what ensure emotional and intellectual provisions, similar ways to respond to the expectations and requirements.


Communication is carried out on three levels: logic; para verbal; nonverbal. Language is the code by which information is transmitted, is the communication tool. The language goes in the first category; it is the communication code, is the connecting link between the information you send, transmitter and the one who receives the information, the receiver. The language determines the communication form. There are three kinds: written language, verbal speech and nonverbal speech.

If we talk about the group we observe that although society where we belong is a group. Group means rules, reputation, goal, team work, etc. Directions are determined by the communication. As long as there is a good communication there it is also maximum efficiency, but if it is missing it can lead to dissension or even worse.

Operation of a larger group is based on the network that connects its various parts and assures consistency. The nuance inserted by Blumer might even surprise: “A network or an institution does not work automatically because of an interior dynamic or of a requirements system: It works because the people at different points do something, and what they do is the result of defining the situation in which are called to act”.

The art of communication is a natural process or a skill that we have got trough birth. We learn to communicate. Therefore we need to study and so we can use our knowledge more effectively. Any communication involves creation and exchange of meanings. These meanings are represented by “signs” and “codes”. It seems that people have a real need to “read” the meanings of all the human actions.

Observing and understanding this process it may make us be more aware about what happens when we communicate. It is another reading of the communication and its significance related to the date of these social processes, such as preserving the identity and cohesion, the vital function exercise of social integration, maintenance and consolidation of common psychological humus.


In none of this major hypothesis, the society (human community) can not exist without communication: not in the acquisition of common experiences (involving dialogue), or in the transmission of cultural dowry, not in building of the agreement on some issues and untying; communication means much more than the exchange and dissemination of information, the communication creates and maintains the society.
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