Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 197 for “"Interactionism"”.
-
The Pragmatic Foundation of Symbolic Interactionism
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:45:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7616155.pdf: 16155091 bytes, checksum: d570d597fe3a1468d70813609aa98910 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
-
Dialogic Interactionism: the Construction of Self in the Secondary Choral Classroom.
… classroom, is described in the study as dialogic interactionism. In order to examine the concept of dialogic interactionism, three constructs upon which dialogic interactionism is based were developed and philosophically analyzed. They include the construction of self through the construction of …
-
College Wheelchair Basketball Players' Construction Of Identities: A Symbolic Interactionism Approach
… wheelchair basketball players. Symbolic interactionism served as the theoretical framework for helping to create a deeper understanding of collegiate wheelchair basketball players' identity under the creation of symbols and meanings through social interactions (Blumer, 1965; Burbank & …
-
U.S. Military Student Veterans Identity Formation: Policy Feedback and Symbolic Interactionism
… offer a new perspective by applying symbolic interactionism as a method for capturing the two-way interaction between the target population and the policy's intent. The articles focus on the policy feedback mechanism in the SCTP framework to explain why and how policies shape the identities of …
-
"The Popular Press As Symbolic Interactionism: A Socio-cultural Analysis Of ""ebony,"" 1945-75"
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:18:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7913384.PDF: 11511881 bytes, checksum: 35cf858ba2c190e065203b66bdaa9976 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
-
A Theoretical Study of the Interactive Communication Process in Video Game Playing: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
… context. To achieve this goal, symbolic interactionism is used as a theoretical ground to explicate the interactive communication during video game playing. Once the pertinence of symbolic interaction theory to the player-video game interaction is demonstrated, the conceptual framework of …
-
The everyday Bogans: Identity and community amongst Heavy Metal fans
… identity formation. The application of social interactionism provides one method through which to remedy the partiality of preferred approaches to community as practised in contemporary social psychology. Opening up analysis to the consideration of processes of communing exposes the …
-
The Meaning of Stress in Men Who Have Sustained a Myocardial Infarction
… Man-Living-Health. Denzin's (1989) interpretive interactionism methodology was used for data analysis. Results showed chronic stress followed by a period of no stress, then another period of stress followed shortly by MI in the study group. Although the control group experienced significant …
-
"""Where will we talk about these things next year, when we're not in this class anymore?"": Exploring the role of community in teacher education"
… discourse analysis, postmodernism, interpretive interactionism, phenomenology, and my own teaching practice."
-
Life scraps/a patchwork quilt: Vignettes from the lives of Brenda and Jim
… by the mother. Applying the interpretative interactionism perspective, this dissertation describes the meaning of the problematic everyday life with interacting humans. The experience of the individual is connected to public responses to personal troubles.
-
A study of psychological abuse of women in marriage
This feminist interpretative interactionism study explored the lived experience of sixteen women, from diverse backgrounds, who were or are in psychologically abusive relationships. Moving beyond previous definitions, psychological abuse was explained as domination, oppression, unrealistic …
-
The Child's Emotionality: A Naturalistic Investigation
… preschool-age children. Following interpretative interactionism, children were observed in natural settings, interacting with relatives, friends, and strangers, using the ordinary language of their everyday life-world. This approach was based on the premise that the embeddedness of children in …
-
Testing Gouldner's coming crisis theory: on the state of contemporary sociological theory
… Goffman (the dramaturgical wing of symbolic interactionism), and Harold Garfinkel (ethnomethodology). The findings provide illuminations of both the past and current state of sociological theory.
-
Differentiated instruction: The effect on student achievement in an elementary school
… portion of this study followed a social interactionism orientation adopted by social interactionism theorist (Blumer, 1969). This approach allowed the researcher to analyze relationships between the differentiation variables. The quantitative data methods of surveys and test scores, …
-
The auditor and fraud detection : an interpretation of the Companies Acts from 1844 to 1989.
… called 'EIS!' (Epiphanic Interpretive Symbolic Interactionism). It is built on phenomenological symbolic interactionism with hermeneutics as the basis for satisfying the epistemological concerns of this research. The third part applies this 'ElS1' model towards an understanding and …
-
From student to newly qualified teacher : a study of beginning teacher's training experience and how this impacts on practice
… sets out a case for using a combined symbolic interactionism, cultural historical activity theory model to explore the experiences of beginning teachers working within the training standards (QTS) framework which defines teacher training in the England. Research has been carried out using a …
-
Caring for aging parents in Canadian nursing homes : an ethnographic study on immigrant families’ experiences
… with three participants. Building on symbolic interactionism theory, the analysis explored how the participants lived through the transition when placing their parent(s) into nursing homes. The findings supported the idea that elderly Chinese immigrants’ children maintained crucial roles during …
-
eReadiness and eCommerce success: developing and exploring an antecedent model in developing countries context
… and institutional theories and based on an interactionism perspective, the study proposes a theoretical framework for eReadiness and eCommerce success with particular relevance to established businesses in developing countries. From the framework, a model relating nine organizational …
Page 1 of 10