The one thing that I feel
the book could have expanded on would be interpersonal construction of individuals
affected from emotional or physical abuse and more disability coverage. I think
the book did a great job of representing the communication of gender, gay, and
race communication but I feel like it is important to cover abused individuals
and ability-impaired people because I feel like these categories are often left
out in textbooks but they are huge categories of people within our society who
are chronically overlooked.
Another group
that I feel would have been beneficial to write about are the people who have
given up on life; either in a suicidal manner or those nearing death for other
reasons but choice. I feel like this
would have been extremely beneficial to write about because I feel like everyone
at the college age has had contact with at least one person who has passed due
to one of the above reasons. I feel like
knowing how to understand both what they may be going through and also better expect
what emotions you may be dealing with will better preserve the relationship
which could save a life or make a passing more peaceful.
I definitely liked the book we used in this class, however there were some concepts/sections that I thought could use further discussion. I had not thought about the way the book did not really cover abused or ability impaired individuals when it talked about the interpersonal construction of individuals affected from emotional or physical abuse. I think the book focused more on communication of gender, gay and race because these are the three groups that people tend to talk more about. Overall, I think the book covered some great concepts, but like every book, it cannot always cover everything we want to learn. If we want to learn more, we have to expand our selections and ready different books to get the answer we want.
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