<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs attention from an expert in Sociology . The specific problem is: lead is incomprehensible . WikiProject Sociology may be able to help recruit an expert . (November 2015) </Td> </Tr> <P> In the social sciences, coordinated management of meaning (CMM) provides understanding of how individuals create, coordinate and manage meanings in their process of communication . Generally, it refers to "how individuals establish rules for creating and interpreting meaning and how those rules are enmeshed in a conversation where meaning is constantly being coordinated". </P> <P> People live in a world where there is constant communication . In communicating with others, people assign meanings in their messages based on past conversational experiences from previous social realities . Through communication, an underlying process takes place in which individuals negotiate a common or conflicted meanings of the world around them, thereby creating a new social reality . CMM advocates that meanings can be managed in a productive way so as to improve the state of interactions by coordinating and managing the meaning - making process . </P> <P> CMM relies on three interdependent elements: coordination, management and meaning . These elements help to explain how social realities are created through conversation . </P>

All of the following are communication traditions to which cmm is related except