Communicationhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/56562024-03-28T17:54:32Z2024-03-28T17:54:32Z“I Feel Like it’s Almost Deeper than Family in a Way”: Creation and Maintenance of Voluntary Kin RelationshipsVulich, Nicolehttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2110382020-04-20T23:07:18Z2019-05-01T00:00:00Z“I Feel Like it’s Almost Deeper than Family in a Way”: Creation and Maintenance of Voluntary Kin Relationships
Vulich, Nicole
This study explores the creation and maintenance of voluntary kin relationships. Through purposeful and snowball sampling 24 participants took part in two phases of data collection; the first being an online questionnaire, followed by an interview. The online open-ended questionnaire asked the participants to provide the story of their voluntary kin relationships, and the follow-up interviews were unstructured with the goal of expanding on the information proved in their open-ended questionnaire. An iterative approach was taken to identify how the participants created their voluntary kin relationships, and once these relationships were created, how these relationships were maintained using relational maintenance behaviors. The largest portion of the participants created their voluntary kin through time, which was either how long they have known their voluntary kin or how much time they have spent with their voluntary kin. Followed by being born into a previously established voluntary kin relationship and traumatic events that served as positive turning points in their relationship. The most common way that the participants maintained their voluntary kin relationships was through declaration of family, or using biological and legal family titles to identify their voluntary kin; the second being through shared activities together. The goal of this study was to add to the research on how individuals create their families outside of biological and legal means, furthering the research in relational maintenance, while in addition provide a glimpse into how two different relational communication phenomena come together and affect each other.
2019-05-01T00:00:00ZI can’t speak: social control and the iww free speech movementBartram, James Khttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2038292020-04-20T23:07:18Z2018-08-01T00:00:00ZI can’t speak: social control and the iww free speech movement
Bartram, James K
Beginning in the spring of 1910, downtown Fresno became the center of a heated free speech strike. Police Chief Shaw ordered the arrest of members of the Industrial Workers of the World, known as Wobblies, for giving speeches on downtown street corners without a permit. Wobblies flocked to Fresno to protest the policy by attempting to give speeches and being themselves arrested. This thesis offers a rhetorical criticism of the rhetoric of control that was expressed by the ruling class of Fresno. The policies restricting speech on public streets, and local newspaper reports that were written during the strike comprised the rhetoric of control that sought to silence the Wobblies. This thesis also critiques the rhetoric of resistance produced by the IWW. This rhetoric of resistance was composed of the rhetorical acts, firsthand accounts and contemporaneous stories published in the IWW’s own press.
This study examines the use of the war metaphor as found in each of these rhetorics, and it identifies the images that were used in each of these rhetorics to support the metaphor. The thesis makes the argument that in the rhetoric of control the war metaphor and the images used in its support, restricted the popular understanding of the strike resulting in negative outcomes. In the rhetoric of resistance, the war metaphor and images used by the IWW worked to build support for the union and galvanize the union membership.
2018-08-01T00:00:00ZLove stories: a narrative look at how couples jointly construct love in romantic relationshipsRowen, Amandahttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2012102020-04-20T23:07:18Z2018-05-01T00:00:00ZLove stories: a narrative look at how couples jointly construct love in romantic relationships
Rowen, Amanda
The goal of this thesis was to understand how love in romantic relationships is constituted through the stories couples tell. Two research questions were asked: How do couples co-construct love? And, how do couples narratively define love? The stories were collected through open-ended dyadic interviews with 15 heterosexual couples. Couples ranged in ages and relationship length and some were dating, some were married. Narrative theory was used to understand how couples make sense of their love through the stories they told together.
2018-05-01T00:00:00ZRevelation and revelation: the development and utilization of privacy rules by individuals who have adopted significantly different religious beliefs than their exclusivist christian familiesWorman, Braedonhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1994752020-04-20T23:07:18Z2018-05-01T00:00:00ZRevelation and revelation: the development and utilization of privacy rules by individuals who have adopted significantly different religious beliefs than their exclusivist christian families
Worman, Braedon
Exclusivist Christians are defined as people who hold that their religious beliefs are exclusively correct and that all those who do not believe and/or practice Christianity as they do are lost and/or damned. Communication Privacy Management theory is employed as a sense-making tool for understanding how people who have adopted religious beliefs that significantly differ from the exclusivist Christian religious beliefs of their family members develop and utilize rules surrounding this private information. Sixteen individuals who have significantly different religious beliefs than their exclusivist Christian family members were interviewed in an effort to discern the privacy rules that guide their
decisions regarding the revelation and concealment of their religious beliefs from their family members. An analysis of interview transcripts demonstrated that participants created rules that guided their decisions about what information about their religious beliefs to reveal, reasons to conceal their religious beliefs, when to reveal information about their religious beliefs, to whom they could reveal information about their religious beliefs, how to reveal information about their religious beliefs, and whether family members that were informed of the participant’s differing religious beliefs could be allowed to tell others. These results are considered in light of preceding literature on privacy management.
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