This book presents a collection of chapters that describe how mass media has been a social force in various contexts. Section One addresses political contexts that have involved visual images, music and international venues. Section Two focuses on propaganda illustrations where well defined messages have been conveyed to various types of audiences. Section Three emphasizes military scenarios to exemplify how mass media influences impact a single arena of global relations. Section Four describes how the interplay of mass media and diversity has played out in U.S. culture. Section Five...
This book presents a collection of chapters that describe how mass media has been a social force in various contexts. Section One addresses political ...
This book is divided into three sections: 1) Global Impressions; 2) Cross-Cultural Journeys Within the U.S. Culture; and 3) Unique Cross-Cultural Considerations. Global Impressions presents observations from Schnell's visits to the six humanly inhabited continents. The observations are dated and offer insights to the functioning of each culture at a given point in time. Cross-Cultural Journeys Within the U.S. Culture shares his observations of varied locations in the United States that involved unique cultural constructs: a hippie commune, social fraternity, church camp, small college and...
This book is divided into three sections: 1) Global Impressions; 2) Cross-Cultural Journeys Within the U.S. Culture; and 3) Unique Cross-Cultural Cons...
This report describes the results of a study that employed a symbolic interactionist perspective to compare and contrast conflict resolution communication approaches used by a countercultural food cooperative and a Greek lettered social organization. As such the food cooperative is recognized as being representative of countercultural perspectives and the Greek lettered social organization is recognized as being representative of dominant culture perspectives. Other normative variables, in relation to the food cooperative and Greek lettered social organization, are also described. Recognition...
This report describes the results of a study that employed a symbolic interactionist perspective to compare and contrast conflict resolution communica...