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    • 76 11. ¿Te cuentan historias miembros de tu familia? Con frecuencia A veces Casi nunca Nunca 12. ¿Quien? Circula todos que te cuentan Padres Abuelos Hermano Hermana Tíos Primos Otro (identificar) 13. ¿Que materia tienes en la casa pare leer?...
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    • 77 22. ¿Con que frecuencia te ayudan tus padres con tus tareas? Siempre La mayoría del tiempo A veces Casi nunca Nunca 23. ¿Hay otros familiares que te ayudan con tus tareas? Si No 24. Si respondes si, quien? Abuelos Hermano Hermana Tíos Primos...
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    • 79 Appendix D Home-Visit Questionnaires Home Visit #1 Name: ______________________ Date: _____________________ Family Dynamics Evidence of Literacy Home Organization/Structure Attitudes about Education & Educational Experience Family pastimes Life...
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    • 80 Home Visit #1 Name: ______________________ Date: _____________________ Dinámica Familiar La Evidencia de la Alfabetización Organización y Estructura Las actitudes acerca de Formación y Experiencia Educativa Pasatiempos de la familia...
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    • 1 Straight is the Gate: An Ethnographic Study of the Centennial Park Polygamist Community A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Professional Communication at Southern Utah University May...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 5 Table of Contents Abstract i Acknowledgements ii Chapter 1) Rationale 7 a) Background 10 2) Review of Literature 25 a) Polygamy 25 b) Power Differentiation 28 c) Co-cultural Theory 34 3) Method 39 a) Ethnography 39 b)...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 6 g) Church 82 h) Centennial Park 84 5) Discussion 88 6) References 102 7) Appendix 1 108 8) Appendix 2 109 9) Appendix 3 111 iv
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 7 Chapter 1: Introduction and Rationale In mainstream America, conversations about “my first marriage” or “my second wife” are commonplace and would hardly be cause for pause. With the divorce rate in the United States...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 8 Since the incorporation of polygamy into the LDS Church’s faith in the 1830’s, there has been strong opposition to it. In the 1856 Republican Party convention (GOP convention of 1856, 1856), members of the Republican...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 10 headquarters of the FLDS Church. There are many reasons to study this small community, some of these include understanding their lifestyle, their beliefs, how they try to differentiate themselves from the often negative...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 13 became the fourth president of the Church. In the LDS Church’s biannual General Conference in April of 1890, where leaders of the Church gathered to speak to the general Church members about issues relating to doctrine and...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 25 Chapter 2: Review of Literature In order to clearly organize the literature to be reviewed, I organized the literature into three categories, (a) polygamy, (b) power differentiation, and (c) co-cultural...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 30 understanding of why social inequality exists (McCall, 2005). For example, instead of focusing on gender by itself, many feminists are evaluating various biological, social and cultural categories such as gender, race,...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 33 Important to standpoint theory is the idea that a person who has constructed an oppositional position is more aware not only of her own position and role in society, but also aware of the positions and roles of those within...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 34 Co-cultural Theory As human beings we are trained to understand the world around us by the use of language (Foss & Littlejohn, 2011). The use of language creates a structure for interpretation of information and gives us a...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 44 no wives. Most of these men expected to be asked by the community leaders to marry another wife sometime in the future. Contraceptives were discouraged because the Work preached that the main purpose of life on earth is to...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 46 allowed total freedom in asking questions and they openly explained their perspectives. These informal interviews lasted on average between two and three hours and were conducted with as few as one person and as many as...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 48 (1) Meanings about being, personhood and identity. The first radiant answers the question, who am I or who are we? In addition to the actual words communicated by participants, there is additional information that they...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 51 Chapter 4: Findings The main purpose for the community of Centennial Park’s transition from assertive separation to assertive accommodation was to gain greater acceptance and understanding from the dominant culture....
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 55 While members of the Centennial Park community recognized that there are differences between their way of life and the way people in mainstream America live, they believe that outsiders do not view them as real people....
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