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Type of Document Dissertation Author Bishai, Sally A. Author's Email Address sallybishai@yahoo.com URN etd-05142010-180114 Title Collectivism, Communication, And Cultural Conflict: The Dialogical Acculturation Of Christian Egyptians In The Diaspora Degree Doctor of Philosophy Department Communication, School of; Communication Science and Disorders, School of; and the Library and Inform Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Felecia Jordan-Jackson Committee Chair Stephen McDowell Committee Co-Chair Davis Houck Committee Member Peter Garretson University Representative Keywords
- Qualitative Research
- Salon Marriage
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Ethnic Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Cultural Shift
- Traditional Culture
- Collectivism
- High Context Communication
- Communication Style
- Culture Clash
- Struggle
- Americopt
- Egyptian American
- Bicultural
- Immigrants
- Diaspora
- Christian Egyptian
- Coptic
- Copts
- Egypt
- Intercultural Communication
- Communication
- Cross-Cultural Communication
- Culture
- Identity
- Acculturation
- Blogs
- Online Research
- Online Interviews
- Identification
- Arab American
- Hyphenated American
- Dialogical Acculturation
- Dialogical Model
- Generational Struggle
Date of Defense 2010-04-21 Availability unrestricted Abstract Many Egyptians—hyphenated and not—have begun to publicly articulate theirstruggles with identity confusion, collectivist clash, and communication incapability;
these (and similar) issues have, in fact, taken center-stage in both Arabic-language and
bilingual (English/Arabic, Arabic/French, etc.) media outlets.
The dissertation’s two general purposes were, therefore, to:
1) Expand the dialogical model of acculturation (DM), and
2) Discover current cultural climates common among Christians in Egypt and
in the diaspora—regardless of where they were born and raised.
The general purposes were divided into three narrower goals, including:
1) An exploration of the acculturation strategies of Christian Egyptians,
2) An understanding of current attitudes, anxieties, and/or "dreams" held by
Christian Egyptians (living in Egypt or the diaspora), as well as
3) A discovery of participants' manifestations of the dialogical model of
acculturation through an examination of three communication dimensions
(Identification, Cultural Orientation, and Communication Style).
These goals were, in part, accomplished by asking three main research questions (one
of them divided into two segments):
RQ1—What are the acculturation strategies that Egyptian Christians in Egypt
and the diaspora use to negotiate their identities?
RQ2a—What are some of the positive (goals, wishes, desires, "dreams"),
negative ("cultural anxieties," conflicts, tensions) and/or neutral issues in the
lives of Christian Egyptians in Egypt and the diaspora?
RQ2b—How do Christian Egyptians in Egypt and the diaspora negotiate any
tensions or conflicts associated with their own desires and/or cultural
anxieties?
RQ3—How is the dialogical model of acculturation manifested in Christian
Egyptians in Egypt and the diaspora with respect to the "three communication
dimensions" (Identification, Cultural Orientation, and Communication Style)? The questions were investigated through descriptive questionnaires administered
online, and qualitative interviews that were either administered online (synchronously
and asynchronously) or conducted face-to-face and video-taped, while the review of
online blogs from eight bloggers (one Coptic Orthodox, seven Egyptian Muslim)
provided additional insights, achieving validity through corroboration and
triangulation.
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