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Dr. Vernon E. Cronen

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Vernon E. Cronnen Office: 304 Machmer Hall
Phone: (413) 545-3682
Email: vec@comm.umass.edu
   

Communication, social interaction, and culture; the analysis of and intervention into patterns of communication, with application in organizations, families, casual encounters, political discussions; integration of the instrumental, moral and aesthetic dimensions of communication in patterns of conjoint action, based on Coordinated Management of Meaning theory; standards for practical theory based on philosophical pragmatism.

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1970
M.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1968
B.A., Ripon College, 1963

Background

Author or co-author of: "Pragmatism and the Naturalistic Approach to Inquiry," "Communication Theory for the 21st Century: Cleaning up the Wreckage of the Psychology Project," "Language and Action: Wittgenstein and Dewey in the Practice of Therapy and Consultation," "Coordinated Management of Meaning: The Consequentiality of Communication and the Recapturing of Experience," "Coordinated Management of Meaning and Post Enlightenment Ethics," "Grammars of Identity and their Implications for Discursive Practices In and Out of Academe," "Paradoxes, Double-Binds and Reflexivity: An Alternative Perspective," "A Dialectical View of Personal Change," "Communication, Action, and Meaning: The Construction of Social Realities." Current research focuses on the interactive production of coherent action, and the means by which professions can join with others in the co-creation of new possibilities for creative living.

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