Communication Theory and Social Change Robert T. Craig University of Colorado at Boulder A keynote presentation to the Indonesian International Conference on Communication Universitas Indonesia‚ Jakarta 22 November 2010 The theme of this conference‚ “Global Challenge to the Future of Communication: Digital Media and Communication Freedom in Public Discourse‚” is fundamentally concerned with communication in relation to social change. In this paper I reflect on communication theory as an element
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Evaluating the Cola Cultures An organization’s culture is its personality. Organizational culture serves several functions: it gives members an organizational identity‚ facilitates collective commitment‚ promotes social system stability‚ and shapes behavior by helping members understand and make sense of their surroundings. The initial culture of any organization is shaped by its founder(s). Over time the original culture is embedded as created by the founder(s) or is modified to match environmental
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What If You Were Blind? Imagine if you were blind Complete darkness No colors No views No beauty Just pitch black If you were blind‚ ask yourself how badly you’d want to see? If pushing yourself to your limits‚ could give you sight‚ would you do it? If there were a cure‚ would you let anything stand in your way? Would you listen to the haters‚ and the critics to see again? Do you really want to succeed? Would you really care if they mocked you? Laughed at you? Pointed at you? Bad-mouthed
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Theories of Retail Change How Retailers grow‚ develop‚ expand‚ and change • Theories of retail change show patterns in retailing over time… What is useful about looking at the past? Theories of Retail Change Cyclical Environmental Conflict-4 stages Wheel of Retailing Retail Life Cycle Retail Accordion Evolution Theory Institutional Theory • • • • Shock Defensive retreat Acknowledgement Adaptation Marketing man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E29A7BK z9B8 Wheel of retailing chart Retail
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at the theories of social change. There is no one way of looking at the effects of sociological change so I will be looking and explaining at two theories‚ namely the conflict theory by Karl Marx and Darendhoff and the second theory called the socio-psychological theory by theorists McClelland‚ Hagen and Weber. “Social change is the significant alteration of social structure and cultural patterns through time (Harper‚ 1993:04)”. Harper (1993:05) goes on to explain that Conflict theory The conflict
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Motivational interviewing is a method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. It is important and underused model that can provide career counselors with strategies to create change (Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan‚ 2017). Motivational interviewing has been shown to be an effective intervention across a range of different health-related behaviors compared with non directive counseling‚ it is more focused and goal directed. The main purpose is to examine
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