LEON A. JAMES i BARBARA Y. GORDON
Honolulu, Hawaii, SAD
APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
[Invited contribution to a jubilee volume in honor of
Professor D. Kostic, Founder of the Institute for Experimental Phonetics, Yugoslavia,
August 1978.]
I. Historical
Background
There is
no need to review here the history of “psycholinguistics" but only to
point out, that it is only in this decade, that psycholinguists have begun the
study of natural talk. We were trained as graduate students in the North
American intellectual climate of a pragmatized structuralism and
functionalism. BYG was indoctrinated in the descriptive and applied linguistics
of Bloomfield and Fries, and LAJ was trained in the psychology of
neurophysiological behaviorism (Lambert, Hebb, Osgood). The psycholinguistics
of the 1950’s was preoccupied with conditioning and semiotics: the acquisition
of sign-function and its semantic features. The word was the methodological
unit of inquiry as shown by the topics of the investigations of that period:
the effects of word-frequency; similarity and synonymy word-association
clustering effects; verbal learning of pained associates; tachisto-copic
perception of words and their emotionality value; Atlases of semantic differentiation;
stimulus generalization; phonetic articulation; semantic satiation; and many
others where the word was the unit for investigating the psycholinguistic laws
of language behavior (see James & Miron, 1967, for representative
articles).
However,
two separate developments in the 1960’s helped clarify the idea that the laws
of language behavior are to be round beyond the unit of the word. One
development was the spread of the Ethnomethodology School, and the second, the
importation of ideas from the British School. Both introduced a new paradigm,
which allowed a methodology or natural talk.
Prof. Leon
A James, Ph. D., Barbara Y. Gordon, Department or Psychology, University or
Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., Primenjena psihologvistika u
drustvenoj psihologiji.
In our own
history, we encountered the ethnomethodological school through the work of
Goffman, Garfinkel, and Sacks (see References). From their writings we acquired
conceptual tools for studying language behavior as a sociopsychological
phenomenon; that is, that language behavior in natural situations was a
spontaneous, reactive phenomenon. Discourse production was to be seen as a
natural biological phenomenon, hence, responsive to environmental effects.
Sociologists Goffman, Garfinkel, and Sacks took social organization on the
daily round as the basis for defining the functional units of language
behavior. As sociologists, they viewed the analysis of natural talk as a task
in uncovering the effective social stimuli that made possible the successful
accomplishment of ordinary transactional routines. Discourse production thus
became a medium for transactional exchanges. The unit of analysis thus becomes
the transaction; not the word, hut an ‘exchange of words’!!
The second
development that shifted our theoretical position from the word to the
exchange, was the work of the British Ordinary Language School (see Steinberg
& James, 1971, for representative articles). Here we acquired the idea that
discourse and talk operate through ethnosemantic conventions the meaning of the
message is carried along with the un-verbalized support of presuppositions and
implications. Thus, the unit of language behavior must relate to the social
context of the situation. There exist operational rituals for transacting
topical exchanges, and these commonly held operations provide a motivational
direction to talk.
In
summary, then, we started with the word as the unit, and we moved beyond it, to
the transactional exchange. We would like to discuss some theoretical and
practical issues involving this new focus for psycholinguistics. The
accompanying table presents the focal issues in our own theoretical
development.
TABLE
I
Focal
Issues in Our Theoretical Evolution
Decade Unit of Analysis Theoretical
Issues
1940’s basic patterns grammatical form classes and contrastive
structural
analyses; developmental hierarchies
1950’s the
word psycholinguistics;
conditioning; semiotics;
acquisition
of sign-function
1960’s (i)
the exchange Ethnomethodology;
social organization on
the
daily round
(ii) the transaction ordinary language philosophy; speech acts
theory
1970’s the
situated display ethnosemantics;
argument logic; role-type
Shifting focus from the word to the exchange is accompanied
by the realization that all discourse is interactional discourse, i. e.,
discourse is produced by more than one individual. This is of course most
obvious in the study of conversation where it appears that participants take
turns at talk: it is clear that the discourse visible in a transcript is
interactionally produced. But this is equally true in both writing and in
interior dialog where there appears to be only one person producing the
discourse. However, it is a matter of common observation that writers change
their discourse in response to the intended or imagined audience, showing that
it too is a form of interactionally produced discourse, in self-talk (or
interior dialog), the person acts as if there is an audience: reports of
interior dialog produce transcript-like segments in which the person addresses
himself or herself using the pronouns [I, you, we] along with the appropriate
verb form, thus indicating that the discourse produced in self-talk is also a
derivative form of interactional discourse.
The analysis of interactional discourse hinges on the
recognition that discourse production is a spontaneous reactive phenomenon. By
analyzing the organizational structure of interactional discourse one in
effect investigates the structure and operation of a social psychological
phenomenon. The laws of social interaction are uncovered through a close
analysis of the setting in which the discourse is a byproduct. Discourse is
thus seen as a medium within which interactions are transacted. This
presupposes the notion that a discourse intervention by participant counts as a
move. The functional significance of discourse derives therefore from its
significance as a transactional move. Transactional moves are organized by preestablished
rituals of talk. These procedural operations are acquired as part of one’s
ordinary social competence on the daily round. We would like to explore so
theoretical issues that arise from this perspective.
II Theoretical
Issues
The primary theoretical issue that arises as one moves
beyond the word to the social exchange, is the explanation of connectedness at
two separate levels of operation. The idea of ‘having an exchange of words’
implies the minimal diadic arrangement, and we follow the ethnomethodologists
in the technique of dividing conversational exchanges into turns at talk, or
talking turns. The taling turn (TT) is one level of organization for
interactional discourse, i. e., discourse produced by more than one talker.
Another level of organization for the connectedness of
natural discourse is what we would call the “within turn” organization, i. e.,
the discourse produced by a single individual during his turn at talk. The
following diagram depicts this description and points to some implications.
CONNECTEDNESS
IN INTERACTIONAL
DISCOURSE
(== NATURAL TALK)
(DYNAMIC
LEVELS)
Between Turn Principles Within Turn Principles
I. Participant-oriented features 1. Situated comment is minimal topic
(=. Ethnomethodology). unit.
2. Exchanges
are managed. 2. A move raises a contention point.
3. Episodes
are situated. 3. Topicalization is the resolution of
contention points.
4. Transactional
function given by exchanges slot, i.e., locus.
THEORETICAL
ISSUES
|
A. Sequencing
devices. B. Boundary limits. C. Transactional
moves. D. Face-work. E. Relationship
history (reputation; identity). F. Community-Cataloguing Practices (CC’s). |
A. Utterance units
are moves. B. Topic has
transactional function. C. Topic = labeled topical elements. |
We shall explore here only the theoretical implications of
between-turn connectedness and present the direction of our current work
dealing with the social psychology of language behavior or,
“sociopsycholinguistics.”
III Some
Syntactic Properties of Conversational Interaction
A first practical issue to be resolved about the common
phenomenon of coaversation is represented by the question, “What’s going on in
the conversation?” We follow here the ethnomethodological dictum that the
answer to this question must exclude anything, which cannot be demonstrated to
be a feature to which participants are oriented. This stricture insures that
the theoretical explanation objectively matches the actual units that govern
the organization of verbal exchanges. By “actual units” we mean to designate
the features of the social exchange which conversationalists are oriented to
notice by virtue of their common socialization training. In other words, the
phenomenon of conversation is viewed as a managed exchange — managed by the
participants according to shared rituals of operation. The question then arises
as to how the interactional exchange is successfully managed by the
participants; more specifically, what mechanisms are there for regulating the
sequence of turns in a conversation? The mechanisms to be described must be
mechanism that are actually used, and these are perforce dependent on the
noticing of the participants when to talk, when to say what, when to acknowledge,
disagree, change topics, and so on.
To proceed with this task, then, we begin by defining the
minimal unit of exchange as a situated episode. An “episode” is a
sociopsychological concept. It derives from Goffman’s work on the nature of
ritual behavior on the “daily round.” All social behavior is situated in time
and place A “setting” is defined as a time/place specification for routine
activities in a community. For example, our students in social psychology are
given the exercise of recording, minute by minute, the course of a day. Here
is a sample:
Place,
Circumstance, Activity
Time
7:35 A.M. (i) 5 mm.; (ii) at home; (iii) me and Rob;
(iv) talking about what
to have for breakfast.
7:50 A.M. (i) 15
min (ii) in bathroom; (iii) me; (iv) doing personal chores.
8:15 A.M. (i) 25
min (ii) in the living room; (iii) me and Rob; (iv) eating
breakfast.
With this technique, which we call logging activities, one can arrive at a local ethnography of community settings. It is, in other words, a daily round map that empirically specifies the available settings in a community. With such a map as a reference point, episodes may now be investigated as a function of the setting within which the exchange occurs. The following diagram depicts these relationships:
SITUATED
EPISODES
STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS FUNCTIONAL COM PONENTS
community
map of available settings ritual or routinized
operational
obtained through records of
logging sequences called
“episodes” on the
activities (= time/place
specifications). daily round and localized on
the
community map of available
settings.
We shall present a transcript segment, prepared by a
student, and illustrate some techniques that are possible for investigating the
functional components of situated episodes (Winskowski, 1977).
Transcript segment: A and B are friends in their early twenties.
B is A’s boyfriend and has come to pick up A at her house. As the doorbell
rings, A opens the door, holding .a tape recorder in her hands.
1. B: Hi.
[opening front door.]
2. B: What’s
up? [gesturing to the tape recorder.]
3. A: I’m
tape recording you.
4. B: Are
you kidding me?
5. A: Nope.
6. B: But
what am I supposed to say?
7. A: Whatever you want. (walking in the
kitchen.]
8. B: Well, what a nice bunch of
groceries you’ve got. [said in the exaggerated tone of Little Red Riding
Hood,
exaggerated tone, seeing two shopping bags on the table]
9. A: How
‘bout that.
10. B: That’s
very nice.
11. A: Amusing,
eh?
12. B: Uh,
huh.
13. A: I
got most of my gear together except I gotta get something of...
14. C: Randy,
you’re on time. What’s wrong with you? [C is A’s mother who
just walked into the kitchen]
15. B: No,
I’m not. I’m fifteen minutes late.
16. A: You’re
fifteen minutes late, you know. Did you know that.
17. D: Hi,
Randy. [D is A’s father who walked in with C in (14)]
18. B: Hi.
etc. etc.
The
accompanying table presents a first-order analysis of the structural and
functional components of this transcript segment.
|
STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS BRACKETED SEGMENTS TALKING
TURNS |
SETTING LOCALE front door exchange walking into the kitchen play talk sequence in the kitchen in the kitchen in the kitchen in the kitchen |
FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS EPISODAL SEQUENCE OF
OPERATION greeting sequence interrupted topic switch greeting sequence play talk intervention greeting sequence |
|
1-2 3-12 13 14-15 16 17-18 |
Note
that we’ve arranged the interactional discourse recorded on the tape in terms of
six parts which we call bracketed segments of the conversation. The first
segment comprises the structural units of talking turns 1 and 2, which occurred
at the front door. This setting is
familiar to the participants: both share common ritual sequences known as “greeting” — a ritual that occurs when
two acquainted participants suddenly
find themselves in face-to-face contact. In other words, TT’s (“taking turns”) 1 and 2 are
structurally localized (Episodal openers) and
functionally standardized (greeting).
To demonstrate the functional properties of this syntactic ‘slot’ one need only consider alternative forms that might occur there without change of function: e.g.,
|
A Hi B: |
a1: What’s up? a2: Hi. a3: Well, whatcha got here? a4: I’ll
wait for you in the car. a5: Hello, there, sweetheart. etc. |
The set of alternatives a is a form class whose items distribute themselves over variable topical dimensions, but remain functionally equivalent, being each a greeting response, thanks to their structural location as Episodal openers.
This observation leads us to a fundamental principle of interactional discourse production, namely, that transactional function and topical content are independent. For example, TT (II), has a form class aa, as follows:
|
II. Amusing, eh? 12. B: |
aa1: Uh, huh. aa2: You think so? aa3: Not really. aa5: Yup. etc. |
The sum of
the sets of alternatives available in a talking turn, i.e.,
E
[a, aa, aaa … I]TT
may be called the display repertoire of the verbalizing community. Through socialization, training, and experience, a conversationalist acquires a certain portion of the culturally available display repertoire. Individual variations exist in available responses to a talking turn. Skilled conversationalists have available a greater range of the verbalizing community’s display repertoire than those who are less skilled. We may speak here of social or transactional competence. One strategy in becoming a better ‘transactional engineer’ would presumably be to (i) catalogue the set of alternatives available in particular conversational slots, and (ii) learn them. Step (i) amounts to making a local ethnography of social settings by some natural history technique (as in” logging activities”, discussed above). Step (ii) amounts to becoming acculturated, i. e. learning standardized patterns of topical interventions. The latter may be recognized as the perennial problem of the young, the visitors, and the foreigners: “What shall I say, When, and How?l?” Assimilation and re-educational training can be viewed as attempts to enlarge an individual’s set of alternatives in interactional discourse — but enlarge in a particular direction, namely, the direction of greater overlap between the individual’s current performances and the target ‘norm’. This element is not fixed, but operates within a ‘range of normalcy’ (Goffman’s term). Episodal exchanges are progressive, i.e. they wind down from ‘openings’ to ‘closings’ (Sacks; Shegloff). At any point within this sequence a participant may find himself “at a loss for words.” This is a “normal” occurrence on the daily round. Yet because episodes perforce wind down, there must be mechanisms for re-starting so that the closing exchange may ultimately occur. This mechanism also operates when one is ‘at a loss for words’, at which time one restarts, viz., begins a new bracketed section of the conversation.
We can
summarize the above considerations by stating the following empirical
hypotheses about the character of conversational interaction:
Hypothesis 1: Verbalized utterances in a talking turn are
treated by participants as particularized surface variations of a form class
the items of which have the same transactional significance or function.
Hypothesis 2: The first pair of talking turns, i. e. the
first “adjacency pair” (Sacks’ term), in a conversational episode is treated by
participants as a greeting opener,
Hypothesis 3: The transactional or functional significance
of a talking turn is jointly recognized by participants in accordance with a,
transactional code which they share by virtue of their common membership in a
verbalizing community. We may state a
fourth hypothesis upon considering TT (2) in which participant B says “What’s
up?” while gesturing towards the tape recorder held up by A upon opening the
front door.
Hypothesis 4: Any publicly noticeable change in the “normalcy”
status of the environment (Goffman’s term), is a routinely available candidate
for being made the topic of an utterance in a talking turn. When we consider that the utterances in one
talking turn have a functional relation to utterances in adjacent turns (before
and after), we are led to a notion, discussed by Sacks and others, known as
“the setting-up-move.”
Hypothesis 5: There is a class of utterances, known as
general purpose inquiries, that when uttered in a talking turn, will be treated
by participants as serving to set-up the immediately next alternating talking
turn such that it will contain a move that will constitute a justificatory
comment on a readily noticeable environmental event.
Hypothesis 6: If a talking turn is made up of an utterance
of the class belonging to a general purpose inquiry, it will be seen by
participants to serve as a setting-up move for the utterance in the immediately
next alternating talking turn such that it, in turn, will be seen as a directed
response, a supportive move, a reply, a remedy.
The fifth
and sixth hypotheses are general formulations that have the merit of showing up
the common structural basis of a large class of conversational events that
relate to the sequential aspects of alternating talking turns. Next, when we
consider talking turns (3) — (12), we note that they constitute a bracketed
segment of the Episodal exchange. This leads us to the formulation of the next
hypothesis.
Hypothesis 7: There is a class of conversational events in
the form of an exchange of alternating talking turns that is bracketed from
other parts of the conversation, and where the bracketed exchange is seen by
participants as specifically different from adjoining conversational material,
this difference being that it is to be seen as semi-serious or “play talk” in
contradistinction to the rest which is seen as serious.
The seven hypotheses outlined above imply the existence of three types of functional mechanisms in conversational interaction. First, we may mention the mechanism of sequencing devices. Given that talk proceeds through time, the events that, take place in it must be ordered in some way, and a description of these ordering procedures is what’s called for in the elaboration of conversational sequencing devices. Second, we may mention the mechanism of boundary limits in bracketed sections of conversation. The function of boundary limits is to indicate to participants where some event begins and where it ends. We've reviewed some of the elements of boundary limits, namely, talking turns, adjacency — pairs, opening sections, closing sections, and play talk sections. Third, we may mention the mechanism of transactional moves. The function of transactional moves is to indicate to participants the significance of a conversational display (utterance or gesture) for their relationship, i e. for their behavioral or interactional implications. Thus, sequencing devices, boundary limits, and transactional moves are theoretical mechanisms that are available to participants for ordering the sequence of talking turn utterances within a conversational episode. The elaborations of these mechanisms in Hypotheses I through 7, stated above, attempt to show that conversational displays (in gestures or in utterances) are treatable as transactional moves whose significance derives from their structural properties, that is to say, their locus of occurrence in the conversation. By “locus” we mean such things as sequence of talking turns, boundary limits of the bracketed section they belong to, place of that section within the overall episode, and type of relationship of participants as implied by previous history of joint conversational episodes.
We have
reached here a crucial stage in our theory building. Since the list of empirical
hypotheses (as proposed above) is potentially open-ended or indefinitely
large, we need an explanatory mechanism that accounts for the occurrence of an
indefinitely large number of transactional sequences, as one observes regularly
in the continuing round of episodes on the daily schedule. In other words the
listing of empirical hypotheses about natural talk is a descriptive stage of
data processing (taxonomy?). We now need a process-valued function that sets
talking matters in motion, and directs movement towards an objectively
identifiable goal. We shall refer to this post-taxonomic phase as the
psychodynamics of talk.
Goffman’s
elaborated notions on “face work” serves as the starting point for our proposal
relating to the motivational dynamics of talk. The dialectic of offense and
remedy is posited as the generating mechanism. Utterances and gestures are
displays, or display presentations, or performances. Displays are organized as
moves in transactional sequences. Moves have direct ‘face work’ implications,
i. e. moves are indices to a person’s transactional reputation. Each utterance
or gesture displayed within a talking turn carries a transactional function.
The transactional value of a talking intervention is either positive or
negative. When positive, the move counts as a remedy; when negative, it counts
as an offense.
The
dialectic of remedy and offense provides us with the theoretical starting point
for evolving and explanatory account for the connectedness between talking turns
in a conversational episode. We have pointed out at the outset of this section
that the answer to, “What’s going on in this conversation?” must allow only elements
which pertain to what the participants themselves orient to, as the episode
winds down to a closing. We need therefore a notation system for recording the
occurrences of noticing during talk. Let us call this type of record a
relationship history.
It is
intuitively valid that the transactants to an episode have a coding system for
keeping track of the episode’s evolution. Thus, topics that occur earlier are
pre-supposed in subsequent bracketed sections of the conversation. As well,
there is left an impression of the quality of the transactional face work —
whether pleasant, friendly, involving, or their opposites. And finally, there
is a sense of the episode’s context, in time, place, and schedule on the daily
round.
It is,
then, intuitively valid to presuppose, in natural talk, the existence of
methods participants use to keep track of the directionality and cumulative
value of each other’s face work. This cumulative record serves to reify the
mediating mechanisms of interactions, i. e. the reputation and Identity of
co-tranactants.
Relationship
history is the cumulative record of Episodal interactions between two
individuals. Individuals use standard methods of keeping track. Garfinkel
calls these methods “accounting practices” while we refer to them as “community
cataloguing practices” or “CCP’s” (see James & Gordon, 1975—77).
To recapitulate, we are proposing that the
directional syntax which generates the organizational sequencing of
transactional moves in social episodes, is the dialectic of offense and remedy
in face work. This motivational dynamic gives a goal-orientation to
conversational exchanges, and accounts for the natural winding down of all
episodes. Participants have standardized methods for keeping a cumulative
record of each other’s relationship history. These standardized methods for
keeping track reify reputation and identity. Now we are proposing to
investigate these cataloguing-practices that must form part of ordinary social
competence on the daily round. By generating such data we are preparing the
components needed for explaining the connectedness of utterances in
interactional discourse. The explanation of this connectedness will involve
explaining, (i) how participants keep track of what’s going on, i.e. the
features of the setting they orient to, notice, and code into a cumulative record;
(ii) how the cumulative record reifies the natural phenomena of reputation and
identity; and (iii) how reputation and identity provide a mechanism for
relating moves to each other, i.e. for explaining the connectedness of
utterances in a conversation.
We can
only present here a brief account of our work thus far, but in any case, that
work is only initial, our interest here being, to offer some possible directions
which we are finding fruitful (James & Gordon, 1978; 1979).
The Daily
Round Archives or “DRA” as our students refer to it, can be viewed as a local
ethnography of a community’s daily round cataloguing-practices. What gets kept
track of provides the investigator with the data needed to map the social
settings and indicate their ‘sociodynamics value’, i.e. their influencing
effects on the behavior of participants. The DRA files at the University of
Hawaii are prepared and catalogued by students who are trained in
psycholinguistic techniques applied to the natural history description of
community life. We have been using ethnosemantic sampling techniques for
building a cumulative catalog of social occasions on the daily round of our
students. A portion of the current taxonomy is shown in the accompanying
table:
DRA
CLASSIFICATION SCHEME
I. MAJOR
CLASSIFICATION LEVEL
ZONE I: BIOGRAPHIC RECORD
ZONE
2: TRIBE
ZONE
3: ROLE
ZONE 4: PSYCHOHISTORY
ZONE 5: TERRITORIALITY
ZONE 6: APPEARANCE
II. SUBCLASSIFICATION
LEVEL
ZONE I: BIOGRAPHIC
RECORD
1 A MY VITA
ZONE 2: TRIBE
2A MY TALK
2B CONNECTIONS
2C FAMILY TREE
ZONE 3:
ROLE
3A LOGGING
ACTIVITIES
3B
SITUATED INTERIOR DIALOGUE
3C
SITUATED STANDARDIZED IMAGININGS
3D
SITUATED PSYCHOLOGIZINGS
3E SITUATED SENSATIONS AND FEELINGS
3F
SITUATED FEELING ARGUMENTS
3G SITUATED
FANTASY/DAYDREAM EPISODES
3H THE
ELEVATED REGISTER
31
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
3J SOCIAL
MEMBERSHIPS
ZONE 4:
PSYCHOHISTORY
4A
SITUATED ATURIBUTIONS
4B
SITUATED EVALUATIONS AND ASSESSMENTS
4C
SITUATED JUDGMENTS
4D
INTERVIEWING THE SELF
ZONE 5:
TERRITORIALITY
5A REGULAR
LISTS AND BELONGINGS
5B ROUTINE
CONCERNS: SELECTED INVENTORIES
5C
NOTICING OBSERVATIONS
5D
DESCRIPTION OF TRANSACTIONS
5E
TRANSACTIONAL STRATEGIES: EPISODES WHEN I:
5F
DECLARATIONS
5G SLOGANS
5H
EPITHETS
5I HANGOUTS
AND GROUP ACTIVITIES
5J
REPORTING JOINT ACTIVITIES
5K
NON-JOINT ACTIVITIES
ZONE 6:
APPEARANCE
6A
INTERVIEWING OTHERS
MICRO-CLASSIFICATION LEVELS
ZONE 1:
BIOGRAPHIC RECORD
1A MY VITA
1A1
Current Status in Community
1A2
Background
1A3 Topic
Focus
1A4
Personal
1A4.l
Ambitions
1A4.2
Favorites
1A4.3
Fears
ZONE 2:
TRIBE
2A MY TALK
2A1
Analysis of Argument Logic
2A1.l Schema of Argument Structure
2A1.2 Description of Operational Talking Procedures..
2A1.3 Shema of Behavioral Strategies in Talk
2A2 Analysis
of Relationship
2A2.l Case
History
2A2.2
Relationship Dynamics
2A2.3
Tabulation of Pair Types
2A2.4
Tabulation of Role Types
2A3
Analysis of Sequence
2A3.1
Schema for Move Embeddings
2A3.2
Tabulation of Adjacency of Relations
2A4
Analysis of Setting
2A4.1
Discourse Analysis
2A4.2
Tabulation of Derivative Relations
2A4.3
Tabulation of Implicit Meanings
2A4.4
Tabulation of the Rhythm of Exchange
2A4.5
Transactional Engineering Through Talk
2A5
Analysis of Topic
2A5.1
Breakdown of Topics Exchanged
2A5.2 Topical
Annotations
2A5.3
Topical Chart of Transcript
2A5.4
Topicalization Dynamics
2A6
Transcript Annotations
2A6.1
Explanations
2A6.2
Stage Directions
2B
CONNECTIONS
2B1 People I Live With
2B2 People Who Are My Immediate Family
2B3 People Who Are My Extended Family
2B4 People Who Are Acquaintances of the Family
2B5 People I Know From Work
2B6 People
I Regularly Socialize With
2B7 People Who Have Provided Me with Professional Services
2B8 People Whose Change in Financial Status Would Affect My
Financial Status
2B9 People Who Are Non-Intimates and Non-Family Whose Ill
Health or Death Would Affect Me
2B10 People Whom I Might Ask for a Recommendation
2B11 People Who Influenced My Intellectual and Personal
Maturity
2B12 People I Don’t Know Personally But Whose Ideas Affect
Me
2B13
People Who Have or Could Ask Me for a Reference
2B14 People I See Regularly for Service or Supplies
2B15 People I’d Like Currently to Meet
2B16 People I Know Whose Words I Quote or Stories I Tell
2B17
People Whom I Believe to be Admired by My Parents
2B18 People Whom I Know Who I See or Think About Only Rarely