COMM 2100 exam II

Chapters

Negating (what happens to the competing discourse)

mentioned, then dismissed.

Countering (what happens to the competing discourse)

replaced by the alternative or undermined by presenting a stronger argument.

Entertaining ((what happens to the competing discourse))

Unresolved and acknowledged as a valid perspective

Transforming

Reframed to incorporate elements of the competing discourse, creating a new perspective

the basic activity of behavioral scientists

testing hypothesis

objectivist research methods

experiments, survey's, questionnaires, observation, statistical analysis

objectivist research methods

ethnography, participant observation, interviews, focus groups, case studies

scientific standard 1

prediction of future events

scientific standard 2

explanation of the data (events or human behavior)

scientific standard 3

relative simplicity

rule of parsimony; AKA

given two plausible explanations for the same event, we should accept the simpler version; Occam’s Razor

scientific standard 4

hypotheses that can be tested

falsifiability

the requirement that a scientific theory can be stated in such a way that it can be tested and disproved if it is indeed wrong; Karl Popper

scientific standard 5

practical utility; Kurt Lewin

scientific standard 6

quantitative research

interpretive standard 1

clarification of values; makes hidden values visible

interpretive standard

aesthetic appeal; feels right

interpretive standard 4

community of agreement

interpretive standard 5

reform of society

interpretive standard 6

qualitative research

ethnography

a method of participant observation designed to help a researcher experience a culture’s complex web of meaning

textual analysis

an interpretive research method that describes and interprets that characteristics of any text

games

sequences of behavior governed by rules

punctuate

interpreting an ongoing sequence of events by labeling one event as the cause and the following event as the response

symmetrical interchange

interaction based on equal power

complementary interchange

interaction based on accepted differences of power

double bind

a person trapped under mutually exclusive expectations; specifically, the powerful party in a complementary relationship insists that the low-power party act as if it were symmetrical

reframing

the process of instituting change by stepping outside of a situation and reinterpreting what it means

enabler

within addiction culture, a person whose nonassertive behavior allows others to continue in their substance abuse; someone who cushions the one with the problem from feeling pain

dramatizing messages

imaginative language by a group member describing past, future, or outside events; creative interpretations of there-and-then

fantasy chain

a symbolic explosion of lively agreement within a group response to a members dramatizing message

fantasy theme

content of the fantasy that has chained out within a group; SCT’s basic unit of analysis

symbolic cue

an agreed-upon trigger that sets off group members to respond as they did when they first shared the fantasy

fantasy type

a cluster of related fantasy themes; greater abstractions incorporating several concrete fantasy themes that exist when shared meaning is taken for granted

symbolic convergence

two or more private symbol worlds incline toward each other, come more closely together, or even overlap; group consciousness, cohesiveness.

rhetorical vision

a composite drama that catches up large groups of people into a common symbolic reality