2. Cross-Culture & Sociology

Masculinity as a Social and Symbolic Construction in the United States, India, Korea, and Germany: Issues When Creating Cross-Cultural Communication Research

2007 Distinguished Lecturer, Rudolph F. Verderber Distinguished Lecture Series
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Strategic Transformations in Power and the Nature of International Communication Theory

James W. Chesebro, Jung Kyu Kim, and Donggeol Lee
 
Ball State University
 
Abstract: This essay explores the proposition that a massive transformation in strategic power is underway in the world. This transformation is likely to affect the nature and direction of cross-cultural and international communication theory. This essay proceeds in five parts. In part one, multiculturalism is [...]


Transformations in the Study of Intercultural Communication

Transformations in the Study of Intercultural Communication1
 
James W. Chesebro 2 the Speech Communication Association of Puerto Rico, and he has been an active member ever since.  From 1988 to the present, he has served as the SCAPR Vice President for Convention Planning and as the Chair of the Selection Committee.  In 1982, he received SCAPR’s “Distinguished [...]


Does a General Theory of Homosexuality/Gay/Queer Communication Exist?

Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 6, 2002
The topic specified in the title of this program encourages us to explore a social, political, and even a religious issue, that continues to remain problematic.  Rather than diminishing in significance or resolving itself, homosexuality continues [...]


Cross-Cultural Communication—Retrospective and Prospects

Keynote Address at the Speech Communication Association of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 1, 2000
This convention marks the twentieth anniversary of the Speech Communication Association of Puerto Rico. My purpose in this address is to celebrate this anniversary. I want to celebrate both the past twenty years and look [...]