Communication is very special way of human interaction, without it people just will not be able to live, contact with each other, to influence at each other, to exchange experience, skills, opinions. The statement will not be exaggeration that without communication the mankind will not be able simply to work and develop!
Functions and purposes of communication
Communication functions very closely adjoin to main objectives of communication, they are caused by its contents. Psychologists distinguish only four functions:
- Function tool is a communication as the social mechanism of data transmission and management.
- Function integrative is a communication which unites people.
- Self-expression function – the communication promoting mutual understanding and self-expression.
- Function transmitting is a transfer of estimates, methods, modalities of action and other.
The purposes of communication are various, but scientists allocate two main objectives of communication - it is planning and coordination of the general activity of society, or a specific individual. It means that communication kind of serves other activity which is not communicative. This activity is quite capable to have both material character and spiritual (for example, the ideas, ideals, values, thoughts).
The additional purposes of communication of psychology are extraordinary wide, there are they outside it, that is, communication is carried out always for the sake of something: granting or receiving the benefits, ensuring interaction during the general work, data transmission, the solution of problems, formations of the relation to certain phenomena and so on.
If the person sees value only in himself if sets before itself only the mercenary purposes, if point of communication with people – in achievement of benefit, then it is possible to call such communication unambiguously immoral! The value of everyone is shown in acts, views, estimates, and all this comes to light just in the course of communication.