Analysis of the Social Relationship of Apartment Community Residents` Participation - Focused on Residents in Seoul City -
The purpose of this study was to identify a direction for increase of resident participation by analyzing the social relations of resident participation. In the research method, the method of statistical analysis was added to the legal institutional method. As a result, the following findings were obtained: First, it is very important that the resident representative meeting at the center of the participation of the resident organization should take the role in and responsibility for the promotion of participation. Second, it is necessary to have smooth communication with voluntary groups such as women’s association or club forming the coordinating group. Third, Among other things, it is judged that residents should have an active will to participate and practice in order to promote their participation in the apartment community. The above results imply that participation should be promoted by enabling residents to perform four functions of resident participation. Accordingly, the promotion of participation based on the function of participation is very necessary and important.
Interpersonal Approaches to Communication Research
are thought of as &dquo;self-made,&dquo; while the poor are held to be &dquo;lazy.&dquo; Skinner (1971) points out that his theory of operant conditioning through reinforcement is resisted partly because of the popular tendency to assign both the &dquo;blame&dquo; and the &dquo;credit&dquo; for human conduct to the person’s internal psyche. Perhaps, then, it is understandable that even our &dquo;social&dquo; science employs mainly intrapersonal concepts, such as attitudes, motives, and personality traits, to account for behavior.
Communication and Affective Relations
,Research on attitudes and attitude change has a special significance to the communication researcher because his area of concern is that which precedes or substitutes for directed behavior. Communication is important because the individual can decide to act or not to act. For society, and for the individual himself, communication provides a unique means of coping in many situations. Although the area of affective relations is congenial to the communication researcher, the current theoretical a p proaches are not. The aim of the communicator is to transmit-and in the social context, exchange-information about how one sees the world about him. Preferably this would be before action, that is, before directed behavior toward one or more objects. The point of view that the communication researcher wants to take is one which allows him to see the “how” of information processing, that part of behavior in which he is particularly concerned. The view of affective relations that he wants must necessarily be