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dc.contributor.advisor | Shaffir, William | en_US |
dc.contributor.advisor | Pawluch, Dorothy | en_US |
dc.contributor.advisor | Miall, Charlene | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | McLuhan, Arthur | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T17:06:22Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T17:06:22Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2014-04-29 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2014-04 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/8949 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 10029 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 5531779 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14120 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>In the social sciences, the dominant approach to the study of character—people’s</p> <p>essential interactional dispositions, especially of a moral and durable nature—has been to</p> <p>treat it as a set of objective dispositions lodged within the individual. This dissertation</p> <p>challenges the objectivist orthodoxy in the study of character by examining it from a</p> <p>symbolic interactionist perspective (Mead 1934; Blumer 1969; Strauss 1993). Drawing on</p> <p>14 months of ethnographic research in two Protestant Christian seminaries as an</p> <p>empirical case, I find that character is ultimately a matter of audience definition, a selfother</p> <p>dispositional designation achieved in social interaction. Three empirical papers</p> <p>examine specific aspects of the character-making process. The first paper considers</p> <p>character as a contingency influencing people’s trajectories of involvement in group life.</p> <p>The second paper examines how ministry students define and experience character</p> <p>formation in the seminary. The third paper analyzes how character problems are</p> <p>identified and responded to in the seminary.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Character | en_US |
dc.subject | ethnography | en_US |
dc.subject | symbolic interaction | en_US |
dc.subject | seminary | en_US |
dc.subject | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject | Sociology | en_US |
dc.title | CHARACTER AS A SOCIOLOGICAL PHENOMENON: AN INTERACTIONIST ANALYSIS OF SEMINARY LIFE | en_US |
dc.type | dissertation | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Sociology | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
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