Human Nature Approach

The Human Nature Approach to Communication applies to my NCA individual code because the NCA is ethical communication that is fundamental to responsible thinking, decision making, and the development of relationships and communities within and across contexts, cultures, channels, and media. Ethical communication enhances human worth and dignity by fostering responsibility. These guidelines are similar to Human Nature approach as to finding the good in the public process by collaborating on customs, ideas, and rights, promoting, and protecting the good of public decision-making.

For example, imagine four close friends who attend the same college understand that drinking is an issue requiring responsible decision-making. The four friends discuss and deliberate about the rules they will follow when attending a parties where alcohol will be consumed. Through a number of meetings among the four friends, many options about what to do are discussed. The four friends develop guidelines by which they agree to apply some of the Human Nature approach guidelines merged from their deliberations that included the following: electing a driver who will refrain from drinking when their friends attend parties, requiring transportation and decisions about which parties to attend and which ones to avoid, based on the likelihood of intensity of alcohol consumption at the event. The four friends decided on a local bar close to the college that serve limited alcohol to students and they also decided to make a request of the bar owner to call a cab upon leaving the bar back to school.

The Nature of Communication Approach applies to my NCA code because it defines communication as shared meaning, and apply the...

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The Social Contract applies to my NCA is the notion of fairness and justice. Social contract and individual rights are becoming aware that the person is obligated to whatever laws agreed upon by due process. Social contract is because society needs rules in order for us to survive and; as people; we need these rules in order to flourish. Social contract theory is then based on the idea of an agreement between the State and the individual where the person agrees to obey all the matters within the States in return for the guarantee of security and peace. An example is a person agreeing to pay their property taxes for a lifetime. One day the person might decide not to pay their property tax anymore, the person has now breach the contract and disobey the State government laws of paying his taxes after signing a contact.