Question 1

Compare and contrast symbolic interactionism with dramatism. In your well-written essay, be sure to address each of the following:
a. Who is primarily responsible for developing each theory?
b. How do both theories attempt to explain humans as symbol-using creatures?
c. What do both theories assume about the nature of language and the use of symbols?
d. How, if at all, do the theories differ from one another?

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Question 2

Identify and explain the six levels of hierarchy embedded within the CMM. For each level, be sure to define the key concept that characterizes a given level and provide an example to help illustrate what the CMM is attempting to explain.

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Question 3

Why is scholarly research considered to be more reliable than everyday research?

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Question 4

Where does your knowledge about communication come from? Briefly describe the differences between knowledge that comes from authority, intuition, and personal experience, and knowledge that comes from research.

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Question 5

Identify and briefly describe seven steps in the research process.

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Question 6

Why is it important for researchers to replicate their studies?

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Question 7

Compare and contrast deductive and inductive approaches to communication research.

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Question 8

Compare and contrast quantitative and qualitative research methods. In your well-written essay, be sure to address the following:
a. What is the primary goal or purpose of each method? What types of data do both methods use to accomplish their goals?
b. Identify and briefly discuss three examples of each method.
c. Finally, clarify the difference between claims that are generalizable and claims that are transferable, and identify which method seeks to establish one type of claim over the other.

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Question 9

Identify and describe four criteria researchers use to evaluate good research. Then, evaluate the degree to which the three schools of thought (i.e., post-positivists, interpretive, and critical scholars) in the communication field are more or less concerned with each criterion.

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Question 10

Identify and briefly describe the four identifiable parts of every communication theory.

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Question 11

How are communication models different from communication theories?

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Question 12

Identify and describe three general functions that all good theories perform for the people who use them.

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Question 13

List seven specific purposes that theories can have. Then, identify which purposes are most likely accomplished by post-positivist theories, by interpretive theories, and by critical theories, respectively.

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Question 14

Compare and contrast a realist ontology with a social constructionist ontology. What implications does adopting one view of reality over the other have for our investigations of human communication?

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Question 15

Identify and describe three paradigms that encompass the vast majority of theories in the communication field. In your well-written essay, be sure to address the following:
a. What are the ontological and epistemological positions of each paradigm?
b. How does each paradigm view the role of the researcher?
c. How does each paradigm view the role of communication?
d. Finally, if you were to become a communication theorist, which paradigm would you most likely adopt and why?

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Question 16

Compare and contrast the term theory with the terms conceptual framework, model, and paradigm. Define each term and discuss why the first term is distinct from the other three terms. Then, explain how conceptual frameworks, models, and paradigms work in the development of a theory.

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Question 17

Define metacommunication. Then, briefly explain how Tannen's genderlects theory uses the concept of metacommunication to explain differences in how men and women communicate.

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Question 18

What does Tannen mean when she compares report talk with rapport talk? And how do both forms of talk explain the socialization of men and women in Western society?

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Question 19

How useful is face negotiation theory? Construct an argument for or against the use of this theory to understand intercultural conflict.

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Question 20

What are self-construals? How do individualistic and collectivistic cultures differ in individuals' self-construals?

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Quiz 16: Concept of Communication Accommodation Theory