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The Pragmatic Foundation of Symbolic Interactionism
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College Wheelchair Basketball Players' Construction Of Identities: A Symbolic Interactionism Approach
… of collegiate 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; …
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U.S. Military Student Veterans Identity Formation: Policy Feedback and Symbolic Interactionism
… articles 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 …
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"The Popular Press As Symbolic Interactionism: A Socio-cultural Analysis Of ""ebony,"" 1945-75"
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A Theoretical Study of the Interactive Communication Process in Video Game Playing: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
… communication 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 …
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Testing Gouldner's coming crisis theory: on the state of contemporary sociological theory
… Erving 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.
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The auditor and fraud detection : an interpretation of the Companies Acts from 1844 to 1989.
… approach 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 …
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From student to newly qualified teacher : a study of beginning teacher's training experience and how this impacts on practice
This thesis 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 …
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The Formation of Cultural Capital using Symbolic Military Meanings of Objects and Self in an Adult Agricultural Education Program serving Military Veterans
… learning spaces for military veterans. Utilizing Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Capital Theories this study illustrates how military veterans use and making new meanings of military symbols in an agricultural educational context. After leaving their military service, veterans often discharge …
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Discontinuance from the Ministry by Seventh-day Adventist Ministers : a Qualitative Study
… the ministry. The theoretical approach was symbolic interactionism. Attribution theory was taken to be an aspect of symbolic interactionism and used in the data analysis.</p> <p><em>Results.</em> The survey did not find any one reason for discontinuance common to all ministers. Each pastor …
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Reconstructing the Meaning of Fidelity: A Qualitative Inquiry into Swinging Relationships
… the secrecy and privacy practiced by swingers. Symbolic interactionism and social constructionism provide the theoretical frameworks the study. Computer mediated communication was used to conduct the interviews. Analysis of the data revealed three themes: swinging is only for committed couples, …
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Becoming a Sister: The Socialization of Women into a Sorority
… have bonded with each other. A synthesis of symbolic interactionism and social exchange theory helps to break down the socialization process and shows how the new members move through the stages of sorority membership. By the time this research ended at the sorority formal, the new members …
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Is intuition an influential factor in marital partner selection? A qualitative study
… that guided this study were phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, and symbolic experiential family therapy. The research included 20 participants who completed individual face-to-face interviews that were audio taped. The participants were 10 couples (each spouse completed an individual …
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Social isolation in intubated and nonintubated patients in the ICU
Based on the theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism, verbal communication was identified as a necessary component of human social interaction. The problem of this study was to compare levels of nurses' verbal communication directed at intubated and nonintubated patients. Fourteen critical …
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The effects of message direction and sex differences on the interpretation of workplace gossip
… politicalism, and believability. Applying symbolic interactionism and social exchange theory, seven relationships between variables are proposed. The seven hypotheses are tested via a web-based questionnaire that manipulated the message direction and sex of the gossiper and gossip receiver. …
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Biculturalism and Identity in Contemporary Gullah Families
… Carolina area were extensively interviewed. Symbolic interactionism provided the theoretical framework for the study. Findings included the recognition of the Gullah as a unique cultural group and the possible effects of slavery on identity formation for individuals as well as the Gullah …
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Scuds and Patriots: A Content Analysis of Letters to the Editor in The Tennessean and The Washington Post During the Persian Gulf War
… between papers. A qualitative analysis based on symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology revealed symbol use and use of ethnomethods among writers. Almost 2 5% of the letters were coded as personal attacks. Significant differences were found with the newspaper in which the letter was …
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“They Talk the Talk but They Don’t Walk the Walk”: A Qualitative Inquiry into Police Officers’ Perceptions of Stress and Stress Management
… law enforcement agency in Ontario. By drawing on symbolic interactionism, the present study concludes that police officers gravitate toward the “me” or the socialized aspect of the self (Goffman, 1969) when constructing their perceptions of stress and stress management in order to protect their …
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A Comparative Study on Rumah Kanak-Kanak (Children Residential Home) and Rumah Tunas Harapan (Foster Home) in Malaysia: A Child-Centric Perspective
… not fully articulated by an initial framework of Symbolic Interactionism and Bronfenbrenner?s Ecological System Theory, but are explainable from a new perspective of conflict. Overall, more foster children were found to have better experiences and views as compared to their counterparts in …
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