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Filtering by: Creator Rinehart, Ronald E. Committee Member Farber, Vreneli Degree Field Sociology

The rhetorical dynamics of culture : an interdisciplinary approach to a synthesis between rhetoric and culture

Creator:

Tobey, Toni K.

Abstract:

The frame of reference for understanding the rhetorical significance of cultural acts lies in the identification and explication of the diversity of theories which encompass sociological and anthropological definitions of culture. The paradigms presented in this thesis range from unilinear evolution, biological and environmental determinism, materialism, historical ethnology and reductionism...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

post World War II neo-evolutionary movement which included Leslie A. White (1949), E. E. Evans