Darmairal Rahmad, Yanuar Kiram, Ahmad Kosasih
The student world and the campus social system are two different things. The world of students is not entirely within the campus social system. Students become elements of the social system when they apply student affairs and lectures. Students' world is everyday life, and the reality is mostly in the campus social system. One of the worlds of students' daily lives in the form of a campus social system is the reality of gossiping. Students' reality pattern of gossiping based on the research results by applying the survey method obtained a continuous pattern starting from zero from gossiping to real gossip. The gossip pattern is obtained from the presence or absence of the gossip factor in configuring the gossip pattern. The gossip factor consists of interesting experiences (PM), topic (Tp), reasons (Al), and goals (Tj). The gossip reality patterns found are as follows: 1) Non-Gossip (harmonious), 2) Latent/Potential PM Gossip (+/-), 3) Latent/Tp Potential Gossip (+/-), 4) Latent/PM Potential Gossip and Tp (+/-), 5) PM Trigger Gossip (+/-), 6) Tp Trigger Gossip (+/-), 7) Real gossip, and 8) pseudo/fake gossip. Based on the gossip pattern, what goes into the act of gossiping is a pattern that fulfills reasons and goals that work simultaneously or synergistically. The gossip pattern with all gossip factors equal to zero is a harmonious conversation (non-gossip). The opposite of non-gossip is real gossip (all gossip factors work in full). Latent gossip is that there is no gossiping act because there are no reasons (Al) and goals (Tj) for gossiping even though the gossip actor owns the PM and Tp factor. Latent gossip is an actor's effort not to build or find reasons and goals to gossip about the gossip target object (OSG). Vague gossip (non-category) is gossip that has a reason (+/-) and a purpose (+/-) but does not have a concrete PM and Tp. PM and Tp against OSG are kept secret, and only the gossip actors in question know about it. Gossip as a social act consists of three types, namely 1) the act of gossiping because it triggers interesting experiences (PM), 2) the act of gossiping because of topic triggers, and 3) actual gossip (real gossip). © 2023 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Padang, Padang, Indonesia
