Which perspectives on communication explicitly emphasize resistance and change?
a. critical theory, modernism
b. critical theory, ethnography
c. modernism, feminisms
d. critical theory, feminisms
e. modernism, ethnography
Answer: D
Communications
- Competent communication is a principal means of counteracting ______.
- (Groups) Groups that allow you to find a creative outlet. Bands, choirs, quilting circles.
- (Groups) Acquire an identity and achieve pleasure from helping others through sororities, fraternities, rotary, Lions etc.
- (Groups) Gain a sense of community. Homeowners associations group.
- (Group) Class study groups, college seminar groups, bible study groups etc.
- (Group) Task forces, self-managing work teams. Gain satisfaction from solving challenges.
- (Group) Self help groups, AA, Cancer survivors groups etc.
- (Group) Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.
- (Group) Family and friends.
- Sorensen coined this term to describe how troublesome the group experience is for many people.
- Final definition of this. Collection of 3 or more individuals whose behavior is guided by the potential to influence each other through interaction as they seek a common or compatible goal.
- (Group Approach) A collection of individuals who have at least 3 individuals and not more than __? (not a dyad, not too large)
- (Group Approach) A collection of individuals who interact with eachother on a regular and consistent basis. (Verbal or nonverbal, face to face or mediated, how often and still a team?)
- (Group Approach) A collection of individuals who become interdependent with one another. (Share a common fate, what happens to one happens to all, difficult to "punctuate")
- (Group Approach) A collection of individuals who develop a unique set of shared attitudes, values, and beliefs. (Groups can have personality, consistent joint behavior, norms reflect personality)
- (Group Approach) A collection of individuals who possess an identifiable structure. (Status, member roles, shared norms, key terms, predictable behavior, regulation of behavior).
- (Group Approach) A collection of individuals who act in a unitary manner to accomplish a common goal. (Work as a single unit, each contributes to the task, working toward same end)
- When you're in this, you have perceived belonging to same collectivity, perceived boundaries, perceived unity, and use we/they language.
- A collection of individuals who are perceptually aware of their relationships with other members of this.
- We spent time in one of our perspectives classes showing how the idea that anyone can be President of the United States is false. What perspective below best explains the American idea (some might say "mythology") that anyone can rise to the highest office in the land with intelligence and hard work, and why?
- In a study of residents at an extended care nursing facility in central California, a researcher is seeking to learn how the culture of the facility might actually prevent residents from getting the best possible care even though the residents don't really complain. The researcher quickly learns that in some ways this is a nursing facility of last resort—most of the residents cannot afford to go anywhere else. Based on this description, what qualitative method is the researcher using, and what context is the researcher likely to place a lot of emphasis on?
- Though it puts our rough timeline out of whack, what ideological term from the list below best describes the Sophists' willingness to argue either or both sides of an issue without buying into truth or grand narratives?
- To build a sophisticated, critical argument for a solution to rising national debt, what would be the most important element?
- In the lecture on conversation analysis, you were asked to do nothing. Why?