Novek, Eleanor
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Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:
A communication-based perspective of the construction of social reality of women in non-traditional occupations, 1999
Item — Call number MU Thesis Ros
Identifier: b2271054
Abstract
This research seeks to conceptualize how the communication messages that women received as they entered the workplace during the tumultuous seventies have impacted their own self-images, their perceptions of reality and, by extension, their lives. The aim of this research is not just to provide an overview of the lives of women in male-dominated professions nor to encourage young women to enter non-traditional occupations. Rather, this study seeks to recognize and understand the reasons...
Dates:
1999
Ahead of their time : Girl Scout promotional materials, 2004
Item — Call number MU Thesis Bas
Identifier: b2195805
Introduction [excerpts]
By conducting a contextual analysis of Girl Scout materials including handbooks, periodical literature and videos from 1913 to 1959 it can be demonstrated that the organization was on the frontier of the women's civil rights movement. Through the Girl Scouts and their female centered environment, young women developed sound minds, strong bodies and a social consciousness that extended far beyond the traditional domain. This study will illustrate the forward thinking of the Girl Scout...
Dates:
2004
Attitudes toward tattooed people : living with tramp stamps, sinking ships and symbolic communication, 2007
Item — Call number MU Thesis DeN
Identifier: b2271226
Introduction [excerpt]
This study examined how onlookers formed an impression of a tattooed person. The attitudes to be examined is [sic] that tattooed people are of low class and credibility, uneducated, deviants, convicts, members of biker gangs, sexually promiscuous, and unattractive (Armstrong, 1991; DeMello, 1995; Sanders, 1988). The goal is to demonstrate that tattoos should be studied as visual texts in the communication field due to the lack of scholarly research...
Dates:
2007
Barking in unison : shared stories of volunteer workers at a local SPCA shelter, 2008
Item — Call number MU Thesis Cas
Identifier: b2271260
Introduction [excerpt]
Animal shelter volunteers represent an interesting group to study for several reasons. These volunteers often work in stressful surroundings. They are caretakers for the very animals they sometimes must put to death. Resources are often scarce. There never seems to be enough money, enough space, enough time. And yet these unpaid lovers of animals keep coming back, day after day,...
Dates:
2008
Bilingualism and biculturalism in a group of Cambodian refugees, 2001
Item — Call number MU Thesis Son
Identifier: b2195838
Statement of Purpose
This study proposed to look at the initiatives and results obtained by a group of Cambodian refugees to promote bilingual proficiency and biculturalism in their children. The parents' background characteristics included the educational and personal history as well.
Dates:
2001
Black English : the language of African-American identity, 2003
Item — Call number MU Thesis Cab
Identifier: b2271263
Introduction [excerpts]
As a young child I was raised in the Bronx. I can remember my close-knit community like it was yesterday. There were different cultures in my community, but the prominent culture was African-American. The community members had shared common beliefs, culture, and language. This was seen from the eyes of a child. Now as an adult I see things differently. I see how many of my African-American community members were failed: failed by an education system that labeled many of us as uneducated...
Dates:
2003
Blurring the boundaries between feminism and motherhood : how contemporary "stay-at-home" mothers are reconstructing their social identity, 2000
Item — Call number MU Thesis Car
Identifier: b2271261
Introduction [excerpt]
The popular media has often been criticized for creating and sustaining the cultural battlefield of the so-called "Mommy Wars." However, I argue in this paper that these two opposing social images of "traditional" versus "contemporary" mothers are rooted in the internal conflict over issues of motherhood that have divided the feminist movement and scholarship since its beginning. Many of the online communiities of stay-at-home mothers have called attention to...
Dates:
2000
CODEPINK : the transference of computer mediated messages into social protest behaviors, 2005
Item — Call number MU Thesis Sur
Identifier: b2195882
Abstract
Through the method of textual analysis, this research examines the non-traditional organizational structure, web content of computer-mediated messages and overall function of CODEPINK, a women initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement. For the expansion of organizational communication theory and practice, CODEPINK will be analyzed to show its influence and effectiveness at advancing the social justice movement for peace. Relying on prior research from scholarly journals, the...
Dates:
2005
College students' perceptions of black and white criminality on local TV news, 2007
Item — Call number MU Thesis Gen
Identifier: b2271184
Introduction [excerpt]
The framing of stereotypical images on television news not only harms the viewers in the short term by having a false understanding of the world they live [sic], but, in the long term, it also has the ability for all races of people to further employ hatred, resentment and violence towards other groups of people, including police officers. Furthermore, it also has the capability to create a more sustainable problem from generation to generation. Thus, this...
Dates:
2007
Communication hurdles for women in the workplace, 2003
Item — Call number MU Thesis Cor
Identifier: b2271236
Introduction [excerpt]
The focus of this literature review will be on the same gender (women) superior and subordinate work relationship within an organization and if the types of communication styles and behaviors used are effective. Evaluating the issue of effectiveness will play a small role in determining if discrimination still exists for women in the workplace. Sometimes women establish their own way of effectively communicating in their organization and establish a network to protect them and create...
Dates:
2003