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Title
Dialogue as a way of life: moral turning points in emerging adulthood
Description
ABSTRACT This study explored the functions of dialogue in emerging adults' moral turning points. Through purposive sampling, the researcher interviewed 10 emerging adults between 25 and 30 years old about experiences of turning point conversations during the years of 18 and 25. This study employed constant comparative and grounded theory methodologies to analyze messages reported in memorable conversations during this period. Results indicated that dialogue functioned to educate, disturb, and maintain emerging adults' moral perception during this period of moral reorientation. Subcategories under each included dialogue that functioned to explain, invite, warn, direct or instruct, challenge, persuade, agitate, expose, inquire, legitimize, co-reflect, redefine, and affirm or reinforce. This report cites passages from interview data to highlight how dialogic themes informed or shaped changes in moral perception. In each participant's self-reported turning point conversations there was an admixture of dialogic functions at work. Notably, participants' experience of moral turning (degree and trajectory) varied despite there being similarity in intended functions of dialogue.
Date Created
2010
Contributors
- Danaher, Joshua (Author)
- Waldron, Vincent R. (Thesis advisor)
- Ramsey, Ramsey E (Committee member)
- Kelley, Douglas L. (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Extent
viii, 143 p
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8603
Statement of Responsibility
by Joshua Danaher
Description Source
Retrieved on Dec. 6, 2011
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2010
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-142)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Communication studies
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- 2021-08-26 09:04:40
- 2 years 8 months ago
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