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Assimilation And Accommodation In Family Discourse: A Longitudinal Analysis, Marcia Summers
Assimilation And Accommodation In Family Discourse: A Longitudinal Analysis, Marcia Summers
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Assimilative behavioral strategies provide continuity through maintenance of similarities, traditions, and interactions, while accommodative strategies result in social innovation through the creation of new modes and interactive patterns (J. Block, 1982; J. H. Block, 1983). It was hypothesized that females would show assimilative discourse patterns through the maintenance of conversational topics, while males would show accommodative patterns through more frequent changes in conversational topic, and that the roots of this pattern lie in family conversation. Nineteen families were videotaped at one month, four months, and four years following the birth of their second child. Results showed that gender-differentiated use of …