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Understanding public school teachers' accounts of conflicts: An ethnographically based, ethnomethodological investigation.
(2001)
The data for this project are narrative descriptions or accounts of conflict episodes written by public school teachers. Two categories of research within the Language and Social Interaction tradition---the ethnography of ...
Communication skills training and development: What is the state of the art?
(2001)
This exploratory/descriptive study investigates communication skills training provided by companies between 1998 and 2000 and perceptions of human resource practitioners (managers and trainers) as to the importance of ...
Strategic communication during relationship dissolution: Disengagement resistance strategies.
(2001)
Research in relationship disengagement has focused almost exclusively on strategies used by the initiator of the breakup to the neglect of studying communication strategies employed by partners undesirous of the breakup. ...
Communication ecologies and contemporary African American families: A study of Black family death rituals.
(2001)
African American families are shown to include an extended group as family during the death ritual process, with a primary relationship among the family, church and funeral directors.
Male Internet pornography consumers and their attitudes toward men and women.
(2001)
Grounded in pornography literature from the conservative-moralist, liberal, and feminist perspectives, and utilizing traditional theories of media effects, this study examined habitual male consumers of Internet pornography ...
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 analysis of talk in four first-year composition cooperative learning groups.
(2001)
This dissertation considers the question, "in what ways do students in cooperative learning groups in First-Year Composition courses create social contexts that allow positive, constructive criticism to take place?" Social ...
An examination of parental knowledge of adolescent media consumption and parental mediation.
(2001)
Overall, the results revealed that parents are generally knowledgeable about the types and quantity of media their adolescents' use. Furthermore, parents may try to employ parental mediation strategies, but may not be ...
(Re)engaging the other half of America in electoral politics :
(2001)
This dissertation outlines both qualitative and quantitative methods to address the underlying phenomenon. Specifically, 22 focus groups and 54 in-depth personal interviews were conducted to address the causes and solutions ...