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  2. Narrative paradigm - Wikipedia

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    The narrative paradigm instead asserts that any individual can judge a story's merits as a basis for belief and action. [ 4 ] Narration affects every aspect of each individual's life in verbal and nonverbal bids for someone to believe or act in a certain way.

  3. Symbolic convergence theory - Wikipedia

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    SCT explains that meanings, emotions, values, and the motives for action are in the communication contexts by people trying to make sense out of a common experience. [4] It explores the human tendency of trying to understand events in terms of the people involved, who have certain personality traits and motivations, and have agency over how the ...

  4. Walter Fisher (professor) - Wikipedia

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    Narrative theory was not totally accepted by the discipline (Miller, 2005, p. 92): It clashed with several pre-existing beliefs as to the nature of human beings and how they communicate and act. Fisher describes this contrast by identifying the tenets of what he sees as two universal paradigms: the rational world paradigm, and the narrative ...

  5. Narrative criticism - Wikipedia

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    Narrative criticism focuses on the stories a speaker or a writer tells to understand how they [clarification needed] help us make meaning out of our daily human experiences. Narrative theory is a means by which we can comprehend how we impose order on our experiences and actions by giving them a narrative form.

  6. Todorov's narrative theory of equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    The narrative theory of equilibrium derives from narratology. [2] This discipline examines story construction and its effect on human consciousness. [3] Narratology perceives stories as sense-making mechanisms, [4] which allow citizens to understand history, [4] morality, [4] and contemporary social structures. [4]

  7. Symbolic interactionism - Wikipedia

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    The emphasis on symbols, negotiated meaning, and social construction of society brought attention to the roles people play. Role-taking is a key mechanism that permits people to see another person's perspective to understand what an action might mean to another person. Role-taking is a part of our lives at an early age, for instance, playing ...

  8. Essentialism - Wikipedia

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    An essence characterizes a substance or a form, in the sense of the forms and ideas in Platonic idealism. It is permanent, unalterable, and eternal, and is present in every possible world. Classical humanism has an essentialist conception of the human, in its endorsement of the notion of an eternal and unchangeable human nature.

  9. Dramatism - Wikipedia

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    Burke asserts that all things have substance, which he defines as the general nature of something. Identification is a recognized common ground between two people's substances, regarding physical characteristics, talents, occupation, experiences, personality, beliefs, and attitudes.