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| A social process in which individuals use symbols to establish and interpret meaning in their environment. |
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What is the purpose of a theory? |
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| Help us understand and improve human communication. |
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| Turners definition of a theory: |
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| A process of developing ideas that can allow us to explain how and why events occur. |
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| What standards should guide you when judging the worth of theories? |
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- Scope: boundaries of a theories explanation
- logical consistency: theories should make sense
- Parsimony: simplicity
- Utility: how useful is the theory
- Testability: our ability to test accuracy
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= Interpretive
- Requires datat to be interpreted through sensemaking analyses
- Truth seeking is interpretive/ subjective
- cant seperate the knower from the known
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=Converted to numbers and analysed
"SOCIAL SCIENTIST"
- objective
- 1 truth
- focus on habits that shape behavior
- universal laws of human behavior
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GEORGE HERbERT MEAD
"meaning is the construction of social reality" |
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| How are meanings created? |
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| Meanings are created via language |
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| SIT: how is our self concept developed? |
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| Through interaction with others |
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| Edward Halls term for the study of peoples use of space |
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-People will react to space violations
-expectancies drive human interaction
-expecancies for human behavior are learned
-people make predictions about nonverbal behavior |
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| A Main focus of Altman and Taylors social penetration theory: |
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| Self disclosure is the path to intimacy |
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| Berger assumes that when strangers meet, their primary concern is to do what? |
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Basic premise of uncertainty reduction theory is what?
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| Communication is used to reduce uncertainties between strangers |
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| 2 types of uncertainty a person faces are what? |
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| Something positive out of a relationship |
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| Something negative out of a relationship that makes you feel a loss |
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| Assumption about relational dialects |
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-Relatinoships are not linear
-Relational life is characterized by change
-Contradiction is the fundamental fact of relational life
-communication is central to organizing and negotiating relational contradictions |
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| Baxter and Montomery are convinced that personal relationships are: |
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| indeterminate processes of ongoing flux |
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| Baxter and Montgomery suggest that all people desire to have what taken out of their relationships? |
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| individuals prefer exposure to arguments supporting their position over those supporting other positions |
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| After we have made a decision, we will feel dissonance regarding the possibility of it being wrong. |
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| uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance. |
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| Festinger and the $1/$20 experiment |
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| dissonance is created by a person doing something for a smaller reward. |
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| requisite functions of effective decision making |
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| analysis of the problem. goal setting. identification of alternatives. evaluations of positive and negative consequences. |
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| Scientific research strategy in anthropology |
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| 3 types of stories that Pacanowsky claims dramatizes organizational life? |
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1. Corporate stories
2. Personal Stories
3. Collegial Stories |
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| Why is Deetz's theory considered a "critical theory" |
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| tries to insure the finanial health and stability of a corporation while increasing the representation of the employees and their human interests. |
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| is the belief that organisations have more similarities than differences |
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| An informally stated syllogism (3 part argument) with an implied premise |
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| appeal to an audiences emotions |
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