Annotated Bibliography On Symbolic Convergence Theory

These themes are typically not seen when it comes to teenage girls coming of age stories and this brings about the issue of the glorification of male youth coming of age. ““these young men are entitled to misbehave,. to destroy, by virtue of who they are: white, male, and middle-upper class Americans. They are doing what society, their parents and the audiences expect them to do.” (Speed).

1. 140 years ago, in Maysville, South Carolina, Mary McLeod, a child of former slaves was born. Coming up from very simple beginnings, would later in life become a renowned educator and college founder, an advocate, for civil and human rights, and a valued advisor to several United States presidents? As a young girl toiling in the fields alongside of her parents, Ms. McLeod knew that education and knowledge would eventually open her eyes to the world outside of South Carolina. At the tender age of 10, Ms. McLeod, began her educational journey by entering Trinity Presbyterian Mission School, followed by Scotia Seminary in North Carolina, and Moody Bible Institute, in Chicago, Illinois. Ms. McLeod, at first wanted

While his work did not engage directly with the topic, a tinge of anti-intellectualism was fostered within the movement this book examined. In Spiritual Mobilization’s magazine, Faith and Freedom, the editor devoted an entire issue to confronting clergymen who supported the Social Gospel, a movement which he claimed was led by, “a small, unusually articulate minority who feel political power is the way to save the world. . .” If the articles of the 1930’s demonstrated a distrust of the “unusually articulate,” the embracing of religious identity and language publicly by the Eisenhower administration had created an atmosphere in the 1950's whereby the Gideons International, Inc. was actively trying to influence curriculum in U.S. schools. Traveling preachers successfully utilized marketing techniques to blend entertainment, education, and religion into a single message. Sadly, that single message forbade the kind of discourse or dissent which fosters intellectual growth. Rather, the libertarian ideologies, which had inspired the original rebellion against the Social Gospel, had come to full fruition in snuffing out dissenters and making commonplace the existence of state-sanctioned

Intro: Molly Worthen is an accomplished PhD graduate from Yale University, and novelist of “Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism” and “The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill.” (Worthen). Spending most of her life studying religion and namely ideology in North American Society.

In today’s society, the sexualization of young females can seem as the most understated concern. Almost everything sexualizes women to an extent and stopping it at the beginning of the tracks can seem complicated. Through the use of statistical facts and personal stories from affected people, Stephanie Hanes makes an argument that young girls grow up too soon, and effectively convinces her audience that it is a result of sexualization. Hanes makes an appeal on why the first step into this loop involves Disney Princesses and that parent entailment is crucial to a child’s life.

While the answer to this exact question is rather subjective, through the investigation of young adult three novels with the role of daughter/male figures relationships and the ideology of teen rebellion is present, an answer as to why society’s constructs about to teens is skewed is more obtainable. Through the combination of the Youth Lens and Psychoanalysis Lens reading of Bronx Masquerade by Nikkie Grimes, This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp, and Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero, the female authors writing these female character to appear as rebellious teenagers is not rebellion at all, but rather consequences of societal pressures that ultimately result in the Neo-Freudian’s complexes being projected on to each of these girl’s relationships with male

Flannery O 'Connor’s works are nothing short of extraordinary. They frequently step into the realm of the extreme to make a statement or prove a point. The result is that her messages are stark and vivid, and O 'Connor is able to make bold positions on controversial subjects. She achieves this effect through a number of means, which consist primarily of Christian symbolism, character foils, and literary irony. Combined, they create rich, intense environments in which radical events push and twist characters. As a result of this stress, the characters are defined more clearly. In many instances, they achieve a kind of self realization, and their revelations usually come with an ironic factor or consequence. O 'Connor’s stories, notably

Writers and journalists like Mahler and, later, Haskins and Roberts explore the aspects that attract the preteen/teenage group

Ernest Bormann's Symbolic Convergence Theory offers a promising method of looking at small group interaction and cohesiveness. When individuals who are not familiar with each other come together for the sake of achieving a common goal, be it a group in an organization or students working on a school project, the symbolic convergence theory presents an understandable and generally accurate stance on how cohesiveness within the group is attained.

I found the article by using the Angelo State University library. I used the U-Search, typed in “teen” in one search box

When a group of individuals have similar thoughts about a certain topic in a group conversation, they can relate to similar issues, experiences, and situations. This phenomenon has a term called symbolic convergence theory, developed by Ernest Bormann, John Cragan, and Donald Shields This theory has different levels of communication, which enhance the relationships between people. The symbolic-convergence theory is also known as the fantasy-theme analysis, which can be created in small groups or interaction between two people, thus creating a similar perspective.

Popular culture has an undeniable influence on how society perceives itself. When examining mass culture, one must keep in mind the equilibrium between how much we, as a society, affect the way popular culture is constructed and to what extent popular culture influences the way we view ourselves and shapes our ideologies. An aspect of popular culture that may serve to greatly exemplify this theory of society as both the affecter and the affected is the genre of magazines targeted at young women. Though these publications are targeted as the representation of our society’s adolescent females, they actually have a great influence over the ways in which teens view and construct

I enjoyed your story about how your brother was trying to convince your dad that Bosch is the better tool brand. This was always a disagreement between my grandfather and dad when I was going up. I think when you have two people with both strong opinions of what they believe is right, you need to use Symbolic Convergence Theory to ensure that it doesn't get heated. Adding own personal stories or humor takes the intensity off the fact that this issue is truly a real disagreement. I think to protect ourselves and relationships with others, we need to use that as a buffer to ensure that the disagreement remains powerless. Sometimes this isn't expressed and the disagreement gets way to out of hand and becomes a full fledged argument. Once this

In the recent history, feminism and pop culture have become more closely entwined than ever before. This can be partially because of the growing interest in culture studies as an academic discipline, but it can also be explained by the fact that, there’s a whole lot more popular culture to watch. Pop culture has become our common language, a universal way of uniting the world. Pop culture is also a key route to making the concept of feminism both resonant and relatable. In this paper, I am interested in the relationship and connections between pop culture’s representations of women and girls and the depiction of feminism through the lens of pop culture. There’s a

New media has emerged from the print media. But its target audience is different from that of print media. Today, we have young readers getting attracted towards new media. This is because they feel that they really don’t need to waste their time reading when they