Social Skills

Information about Social Skills

Social skills are a group of skills which a social animal uses to interact and communicate with others. These skills can be used to affect status in the social structure and for many other motivations. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways creating social complexity useful in identifying outsiders and intelligent breeding partners. The process of learning these skills is called socialization.

Examples

Verbal communication
Small talk or conversation
Sharing jokes
Sharing and discussing of ideas (politics, religion, sports, music, technology, internet, current events, fashion, and movies are all common topics.)
Teaching or learning
Nonverbal communication
Active listening
Body language
Both verbal and nonverbal
Conflict resolution
Intercultural relations

Properties of polished social skills

Basic
Verbal
Smoothness of delivery (lacks stuttering, awkward pauses, etc.)
Intelligible speech (not too loud or soft, not dropping off the end of sentences)
Uses muscle words to help describe ideas in conversation (words designed to "grab" the attention of the listener)
Variable tone (avoidance of a monotonous tone)
Asks open-ended questions
Non-verbal
Active listening
Confident stance (standing up straight but not at attention)
Relaxed manner (not too tense, not falling asleep)
Body language in sync with the verbal message
Leans forward while talking
Open stance (not close hands)
Touching conversation partner (only in appropriate situations, as this can be misinterpreted)
Smile (but not overdoing)
Remembers and uses names during conversation
Complex
Skilled in diplomacy (how one handles disagreements)
Ability to feign interest
Expressing empathy in thought by giving accurate and kind feedback to show you understand.
Expressing feeling empathy by sharing the names of the feelings you think the speaker is experiencing such as frustration, anger, hurt or love.
Other
Treating the conversation partner as their Best Friend

Social ineptitude

Social ineptitude is a lack of social skills. A person who is considered to lack social skills is said to be socially inept. However, the use of the term social ineptitude is considered derogatory by many. People who have autistic spectrum disorders or pervasive developmental disorders such as autism and Asperger syndrome may have impaired social interaction, and are often described as socially inept. A belief in one's own social ineptitude, either real or imagined, is one of the diagnostic criteria for avoidant personality disorder. Additionally, the criteria for social ineptitude varies from culture to culture. A simile for social ineptness is shyness, though a shy person can be aware and adhere to social conventions, just as those who are bold can often be socially incompetent.

Social ineptitude may also be simply a part of a person's character. Some believe that social ineptitude should be accommodated, not exterminated.

External links and references

Jon D. Williams Cotillions, teaching young people social skills for over 58 years]

http://www.cotillion.com

Social refers to human society or its organization. Although the term is a crucial category in social science and often used in public discourse, its meaning is at times vague, suggesting that it is a fuzzy concept.
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A skill is the learnt capacity or talent to carry out pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time energy or both Examples include:

Academic skills
Reading

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A social animal is a loosely defined term for an organism that is highly interactive with other members of its species to the point of having a recognizable and distinct society.
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In sociology, social actions refer to any action that takes into account actions and reactions of other individuals and is modified based on those events. Social action is a concept developed by Max Weber that explores interaction between humans in society.
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Social Communication is a field of study that primarily explores the ways information can be perceived, transmitted and understood, and the impact those ways will have on a society.
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Status is a state, condition or situation.

social status
economic status
legal status
Status quo
Status symbol
A category of the grammar of Semitic languages, see nunation, status constructus

Status
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Social structure is a term frequently used in sociology and more specifically in social theory — yet rarely defined or clearly conceptualised (Jary and Jary 1991, Abercrombie et al 2000).
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Motivation is a reason or set of reasons for engaging in a particular behavior, especially human behavior as studied in psychology and neuropsychology. The reasons may include basic needs (e.g.
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For other uses, see Convention.

A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted social norms, norms, standards or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.
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Social relation can refer to a multitude of social interactions, regulated by social norms, between two or more people, with each having a social position and performing a social role.
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Verbal may mean:

Non-finite verb, a verb form that functions both as a verb and as another lexical category.
A word or group of words that functions as a verb by serving as the head of a verb phrase. (In some languages, adjectives are verbals.

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Social complexity is the approach to social phenomena that tries to analyze a social system as a complex system. The social complexity can be seen as an impact on the social analysis of increasingly influential complexity theory.
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Outsider often refers to one identified as on the periphery of social norms, one living or working apart from mainstream society, or one observing a group from the outside, as used in:

Outsider Art, created by artists working outside the mainstream art world

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Intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related abilities, such as the capacities to reason, to plan, to solve problems, to think abstractly, to comprehend ideas, to use language, and to learn. There are several ways to define intelligence.
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Primary socialization Primary socialization is the process whereby people learn the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture.
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist.
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Conversation is the verbalization of concepts involving abstractions and concrete objects which make up the world we live in.

A conversation is communication by two or more people, or sometimes with one's self, often on a particular topic.
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A joke is a short story or ironic depiction of a situation communicated with the intent of being humorous. It can also be used a slang term for a person who is not taken seriously by others in general or is known as being a failure.
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Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, politics is observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious
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religion is a set of common beliefs and practices generally held by a group of people, often codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic experience.
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Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government
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Fashion is a term that usually applies to a prevailing mode of expression, but quite often applies to a personal mode of expression that may or may not apply to all. Inherent in the term is the idea that the mode will change more quickly than the culture as a whole.
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Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects.
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teachers facilitate student learning, often in a school or academy. The objective is typically a course of study, lesson plan, or a practical skill, including learning and thinking skills. The different ways to teach are often referred to as the teacher's pedagogy.
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Learning is the acquisition and development of memories and behaviors, including skills, knowledge, understanding, values, and wisdom. It is the goal of education, and the product of experience.
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Nonverbal communication (NVC) is the process of transmitting messages without spoken words, sometimes called body language, messages can be communicated through facial expressions; gestures; gaze; and posture; Many include the space we use around us; object communication
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Social Skills

Information about Social Skills

Examples

Properties of polished social skills

Social ineptitude

See also

External links and references