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National Symbols and Social Change: A Case Study of Poland
(2014-05-09)
This study focuses on national symbols and the communicative role they play in social change as it manifests itself in social movements and revolutions. Symbols in social movements and revolutions play a crucial role in ...
The effects of information flow, seniority and status on communication satisfaction within a United States federal bureaucracy.
(2000)
The effects of information flow on communication satisfaction within a federal bureaucracy were investigated. Specifically, this study investigated the effects of receiving quality information, feedback, and timeliness of ...
Ethnic identity and intergroup communication among Korean Americans and Vietnamese Americans in Oklahoma.
(1998)
Ethnic identity is frequently characterized as having objective, subjective, and situational components. Separating these components becomes difficult especially when research taps into the personal, diverse experiences ...
Effects of debate viewing and citizen discussion on political malaise.
(1998)
The last Presidential election of the twentieth century is over; and, as the United States quickly approaches the next millennium, it is appropriate to examine the state of political attitudes. This study examines the state ...
The interpersonal communication of racism: Racism and responses.
(2001)
The focus of this dissertation is on racist messages as they are received and interpreted by ethnic group members and the on the structure of responses to those messages. Specifically the research questions addressed in ...
An investigation of the development of compliance-resisting behaviors in first-, fourth-, and tenth grade children /
(1984)
The study investigates the development of compliance-resisting behaviors as a function of age, agent, and the types of compliance-gaining requests received by the target. Subjects were first-, fourth-, and tenth-grade ...
Institutional review boards: Politics, power, purpose and process in a regulatory organization.
(2002)
Alternatives are offered for consideration: (1) use of more precise terms, for example, distinctions between participant/patient, doctor/researcher, and therapy/research); (2) developing different rules for social research, ...
Caught in the crossfire: Non-combatant communicative practices in Northern Ireland.
(2003)
This dissertation in the area of Language and Social Interaction (LSI) study, approved by the University of Oklahoma Institutional Review Board (IRB) as #2003-233, investigates language use and cultural identity of ...
Communicated values as indicators of organizational identity: An examination of the United Church of God, an International Association's first five years.
(2000)
From these conclusions, recommendations are made first to the organization in light of the results, and second to communication scientists committed to extending organizational identity research. The three recommendations ...