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Critical analysis and business communication texts

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Date Issued:
1990
Summary:
Since World War II, the number of college educated, white-collar workers has grown substantially. A critical analysis of the college training these workers receive will show a "professional" ideology with a strong pro-management bias. It will show a world view dominated by fear of failure and by strong intragroup competition. To the extent this ideology becomes accepted as common sense, graduates come into the workforce alienated from their fellow workers, identifying with an elite of which they are not a part. Using Fredric Jameson's methodology, we can analyze the narrative framework and content of one aspect of this training, the business communication course. Although part of an educational system that prides itself on intellectual independence, it is actually an adjunct of contemporary capitalism and its ideological structure.
Title: Critical analysis and business communication texts.
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Name(s): Lobasz, Miroslaw Thomas.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Budd, Michael N., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1990
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 101 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Since World War II, the number of college educated, white-collar workers has grown substantially. A critical analysis of the college training these workers receive will show a "professional" ideology with a strong pro-management bias. It will show a world view dominated by fear of failure and by strong intragroup competition. To the extent this ideology becomes accepted as common sense, graduates come into the workforce alienated from their fellow workers, identifying with an elite of which they are not a part. Using Fredric Jameson's methodology, we can analyze the narrative framework and content of one aspect of this training, the business communication course. Although part of an educational system that prides itself on intellectual independence, it is actually an adjunct of contemporary capitalism and its ideological structure.
Identifier: 14654 (digitool), FADT14654 (IID), fau:11446 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1990.
Subject(s): Business communication--Textbooks
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