common ground

(noun)

Finding common ground is a technique for facilitating interpersonal relationships. In order to find common ground between parties, participants must search for signals of recognition, which are often subtle and cause for misunderstanding.

Related Terms

Examples of common ground in the following topics:

  • Entertaining Objections

    • If you want to convince skeptical readers that your claim is reasonable, try to establish common ground.
    • You should establish common ground early on, preferably in the introduction to your paper.
    • Support your argument by explaining opposing views in sufficient detail, thereby establishing common ground with your readers

  • Anticipating Potential Objections

    • So try to form a common ground with the audience.
    • So try to form a common ground with the audience.

  • Indicating Who Cares

    • What common ground do you share with your audience ?
    • Establishing common ground with your audience helps make your argument more convincing.

  • Is everything recyclable?

    • Substances used in the medical and livestock industries, for example, can be unsuitable (some scientists believe that the mad cow disease outbreaks in the UK began when infected sheep carcasses were ground up and recycled as cattle feed).
    • Clearly, there is no substitute for research, common sense, and basic safety that errs on the side of caution when it comes to recycling.

  • Intersubjectivity of Social Meanings

    • Intersubjectivity is a shared understanding among individuals whose interaction is based on common interests and assumptions that form the ground for their communication (Rogoff, 1990).
    • Intersubjectivity not only provides the grounds for communication but also supports people to extend their understanding of new information and activities among the group members (Rogoff, 1990; Vygotsky, 1987).

  • Ceramics in the Greek Early Classical Period

    • All the figures stand and sit on various ground lines.
    • The common outline paintings of the white-ground technique would not dominate they style until approximately the mid-fifth century BCE.
    • Attic white ground lekythos. c. 440-430 BCE.
    • Attic white-ground black-figure lekythos.
    • Attic white ground lekythos. c. 440-430 BCE.

  • The Sociological Approach

    • The sociological approach goes beyond everyday common sense by using systematic methods of empirical observation and theorization.
    • The sociological approach goes beyond everyday common sense.
    • This scientific approach is what differentiates sociological knowledge from common sense.
    • With induction, sociologists gather data on the ground and formulate theories about what they find.
    • Explain how the sociological approach differs from a "common sense" understanding of the social world

  • Mechanistic Background

    • The low wavelength cut-off for some common glass types are given in the table below.
    • Overall bonding in an excited state is usually lower than in the ground state.
    • The excited state may return to the ground state by emitting a photon (light blue line).
    • Molecular oxygen is a rare example of a triplet ground electronic state.
    • Alternatively, an excited state may return to the ground state by emitting a photon (radiative decay).

  • Alkene Isomerization

    • A photochemical reaction occurs when internal conversion and relaxation of an excited state leads to a ground state isomer of the initial substrate molecule, or when an excited state undergoes an intermolecular addition to another reactant molecule in the ground state.
    • These local S1 states quickly relax to a common lower energy twisted configuration (θ ≅ 90º).
    • Molecules occupying this new excited state then relax to either DHP or cis-stilbene ground states.
    • Thus, a sensitizer triplet (Zt), generated from sensitizer molecule Zs, reacts with a ground state stilbene molecule (Ms) in the following manner:
    • These competing excitations and subsequent decay to cis and trans ground states lead to remarkable variations in isomer ratios.

  • Stem Anatomy

    • Parenchyma cells are the most common plant cells .
    • In monocot stems, the vascular bundles are randomly scattered throughout the ground tissue .
    • The stem of common St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) is shown in cross section in this light micrograph.
    • In (a) dicot stems, vascular bundles are arranged around the periphery of the ground tissue.
    • Summarize the roles of dermal tissue, vascular tissue, and ground tissue