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Symbolic Convergence Theory

Who developed this theory?

Ernest G. Bormann

1925-2008

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

"A meeting of the minds"

  • Rhetorical Vision

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
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