Mr. Baker
Communication 2
4 Nov. 2013
The Principles of Power and Conflict in Relationships As relationships are formed we establish power dominances in any kind of relationship such as friendship, love, family, and in the workplace. I believe that the roles of who has power are changing in every type of relationship. Change might be welcome but as roles are changing not all support changes in the relationships such as in the workplace, and family. The principle of power comes in play most of the time in a workplace enlivenment. Since there are different types of relationship there are different role, rules, and characteristics in every relationship. Characteristics in relationships such as a relationship of love, friends, family, and the workplace. In the movie Wall Street (1987) the two main characters Gordon Gekko and Bud Fox have a relationship that is control by separation of power that causes conflict. One type of relationships we form often is friendships with other for very reasons but we decide with whom we make doe friendships with. We might form friendship for school, work, business or sometime just to have someone there for you. Friendship is when the mutual feelings of trust, is affection and somebody emotionally close, or is an acquaintance. There are some characteristics of a friendship there has to be interpersonal communication between the people in the friendship. Friendships must be mutually productive said by DeVito it mean you can destructive to one another just to befit yourself. Every relationship is affected by culture, gender, and technology. Culture affects because we might base on what we were taught. Gender influences your friend and how you look at that friendship. Technology influences the most with all the social networks we meet all types of new people and keep in touch with old friends. Even though we all form relationship they are not all the same and there are different types of relationship. There are