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     The theory was introduced by Stella Ting Toomey in 1985, a professor of human communication at California State University.  It states about the careful and imaginative administration of passionate dissatisfactions because of social or ethnic gathering enrollment character contrasts.  Negotiating is the to convince people around them to the point they need.  Negotiation doesn’t mean arguing or creating the point we like. It’s a discussion between people creating an agreement

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    European settlers moved into Canada, the Aboriginal people’s traditions and values were largely stripped away and were deemed a lower status to the perpetrators. The sociological perspective that will be used will be the conflict theory: presented by Karl Marx, the conflict theory is the contrast to the functionalist perspective where it embraces that social order is maintained by supremacy and authority instead of obedience and unity. While the Aboriginal people are slowly regaining their rights

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    There are concepts of the Conflict theory that can be found in the movie itself. Capital is the goal and source the society hungers for, it is what controls the society (Baker, Para 11). In Mean Girls reaching maximum popularity would be considered the capital, this is reinforce by the fact that Cady considers joining the mathletes but the Plastics consider it a complete “social suicide” (Mean Girls, 2004). The Bourgeois are mostly business owners, means of productions or those who are above in a

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    An analysis of American – Chinese movie ‘Saving face” by using Face Negotiation Theory Table of contents Face Negotiation Theory 2 An application of face-negotiation theory in the movie “Saving face” (2004) 3 Advantages and disadvantages of face theory 6 Conclusion 7 References 8 The term “face-negotiation theory” was first introduced by Stella Ting-Toomey, a Professor of Human Communication Studies at California State University, in 1988 based on amazing works of Goffman in 1955

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    1. What is the conflict in this case? Please include the conflict between the clients and any conflicting forces from outside the client system. The conflict in this case is that Irma and Timothy were working together in order to improve their relationship. Irma was having a hard time dealing with the divorce and Timothy felt that he lost his dad. Currently, it seems like spending time together was helping them building again their relationship. However, Irma now is in a new relationship, and Timothy

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    A typical conflict situation I have experienced would be when one party misunderstands the other parties goals, motives, or attitudes about a given situation. The framing perspective states that conflicts may be influenced by the way the conflict was initially framed. Also, the way a conflict is framed may be affected by the interaction between the parties and frames may shift as the conflict progresses (Folger, Poole, Stutman 89). Fractionation is a good way to break down conflicts into smaller

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    The critical race theory gives a better explanation than the conflict theory because the critical race theory directly focuses on race while the conflict theory focuses more on the individual's social status and other factors unrelated to the individual’s race. Generally speaking, both theories emphasize that racial discrimination is part of society and is also a permanent social issue. However, the conflict theory is flawed because it merely focuses on social class, gender, education, and age more

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    negotiation through bargaining. This is assessed within the recalibrational theory of anger which theorises there is an evolutionarily derived anger system that is used in bargaining to gain favourable outcomes by incentivising others to re-assess the worth they place on the angry individual’s welfare. Welfare Trade Ratios (WTRs) compute how much worth is placed on the welfare of another compared to the self within the recalibrational theory. Anger works to gain the highest cost-effective WTR from others depending

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    nonviolent when addressing the responsible parties. There are many types of social movements that include but not limited to civil rights, animal rights and environmental rights movements. The basis of these movements would derive from the conflict theory. The conflict theory

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    meeting and the “group leaders” reaction afterwards. There is not much to go on beyond this information. It is clear though, that the group will fail unless actions are taken to create more effective communication, proper motivation, and constructive conflict management. Is This an Effective Team and is Communication Effective? This team consists of, what appears to be, people of similar status within the company. No one is a subordinate to the other. In order for us to determine whether or not this

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