James Schnell

Conflict Resolution in the Counterculture: a Symbolic Interactionist Interpretation of Conflict Resolution Communication in the Counterculture James Schnell

This report describes the results of a study that employed a symbolic interactionist perspective to compare and contrast conflict resolution communication approaches used by a countercultural food cooperative and a Greek lettered social organization. As such the food cooperative is recognized as being representative of countercultural perspectives and the Greek lettered social organization is recognized as being representative of dominant culture perspectives. Other normative variables, in relation to the food cooperative and Greek lettered social organization, are also described. Recognition of these normative variables is beneficial in that they provide context for the conflict resolution communication findings and they also reveal behavioral trends within each organization.