Symbolic Convergence Theory
Who developed this theory?
Rich: Group Cohesion
Symbolic Convergence Theory
Symbolic Convergence in History
- Majors: Communication & Health Studies
- Agreement
- No I in Team
- Positive Attitudes
- Cooperation
- Communicated
- Email
- Face-to-face
- Shared Input/Voted
- Voice
- Collective Consciousness: emotions, motives, meanings
University of Minnesota, 1972
This theory of communication explains how certain types of communication shape a group's identity, culture, which in turn influence other dynamics such as norms,roles,and decision making.
- Civil Rights Movement (1955-68)
- Women's Suffrage Movement (1848)
Nicole: Conclusion
Melissa: Example 3
The Conversion Theory and Our Examples
- Ernest G. Bormann
- Group cohesion
- Shapes the group as a whole
- We see it all around us
- Movies of teams and friends coming together in the end
- We've learned about it in history
- Civil Rights movement
- Woman's Suffrage Movement
- Can be found in different movies
- Remember the Titans & Pitch Perfect
- In Remember the Titans, the team has to put their differences aside in order to get the team to a fantasy chain, which would be winning and showing their town what they're capable of.
- Pitch Perfect is pretty similar to Remember the Titans in this aspect.
- In Pitch Perfect, the girls have to collaborate and see eye-to-eye to eventually come together to beat the other a cappella group.
- Connecting the conversion theory to our examples
- Symbolic Convergence in History
- Group Cohesion
- Reference to Movies
- Why did we choose these examples?
- Different, yet similar