Owen Hargie
Biographic Data
| ID | 113396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Hargie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hargie |
| SIGNATURE | HARGIE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8030-4351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Combatting sectarianism from the ground up: The Northern Irish Green and White Army and the football carnival
This paper draws upon participant observation data conducted before and after all 10 qualifying matches for the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship to explore the dynamics underpinning the Northern Irish Green and White Army (GAWA) football carnival. Supplemented by interviews with Northern Ireland fans themselves and informed by the dramaturgical perspectives of Erving Goffman, the paper contends that the anti-sectarian 'norms' of GAWA foot…
Can Sport Build Peace After Conflict? Public Attitudes in Transitional Northern Ireland
The growth of the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement has provoked considerable scholarly interrogation of the claimed social benefits of sport. However, little is known of public attitudes to the topic. This article reports research carried out in Northern Ireland regarding sport as a means of bringing divided communities together. Respondents viewed sport as effective in breaking down barriers, yet the demographic reach in terms of t…
The structuration of a sporting social system? Northern Ireland fans, Football for All and the creation of the Green and White Army
In terms of the extant literature to date on sport and fandom in the divided society of Northern Ireland, academic attention has focused almost exclusively on its apparently contentious nature. However, until now, there has been a dearth of actual empirical data to inform such analyses. This article is designed to help rectify this deficit by drawing upon interviews with Northern Ireland football supporters and Irish Football Association staff to…
The Handbook of Communication Skills
Editorial Introduction. Part 1 Communication skill in theory and practice. O. Hargie, Skill in Theory: Communication as Skilled Behaviour. O. Hargie, Skill in Practice: An Operational Model of Communicative Performance. Part II Core communication skills. R.A. Gordon, D. Druckman, R.M. Rozelle, J.C. Baxter, Nonverbal Communication as Communication: Approaches, Issues and Research. D. Dickson, O. Hargie, Questioning. L. Cairns, Reinforcement. D. Di…
People have a knack of making you feel excluded if they catch on to your difference: Transgender experiences of exclusion in sport
While there is a growing literature in the field of gender, sexuality and sport, there is a dearth of research into the lived experiences of transgender people in sport. The present study addresses this research gap by exploring and analysing the accounts of transgender people in relation to their experiences of sport and physical activity. These are examined within the theoretical rubrics of social exclusion and minority stress theory. The findi…
Skilled Interpersonal Communication: Research, Theory and Practice
There is a fundamental, powerful, and universal desire amongst humans to interact with others. People have a deep-seated need to communicate, and the greater their ability in this regard the more satisfying and rewarding their lives will be. The contribution of skilled interpersonal communication to success in both personal and professional contexts is now widely recognised and extensively researched. As such, knowledge of various types of skills…
Sport for peace in Northern Ireland? Civil society, change and constraint after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Using the case of Northern Ireland, this article examines how post-conflict transition impacts sports organisations which have traditionally underpinned societal division and what factors facilitate or restrain such organisations from fulfilling peacebuilding functions. The article identifies three peacebuilding functions of sport: in-group socialisation, promoting social cohesion and symbolically representing new identities. Then, after outlinin…
Communication accommodation in a divided society: Interaction patterns between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland
Double-Bind Accountability Dilemmas: Impression Management and Accountability Strategies Used by Senior Banking Executives
This article considers issues of impression management and accountability in the context of the U.K. Banking Crisis Inquiry, which took place in February 2009. In this setting, the bankers' public image was under serious threat and successful impression management depended on their ability to avoid being held responsible for the crisis. However, in attempting to mitigate or deny their own accountability, they generated a further set of a set of c…
Constructions of Social Exclusion Among Young People From Interface Areas of Northern Ireland
The concept of social exclusion has attracted considerable interest and debate over the past 20 years. It is a multifaceted concept, which has been delineated in a variety of ways by different theorists. This article explores the main defining features of social exclusion, and proceeds to investigate the extent to which these are manifested in practice, in relation to the lived experiences of young people from deprived interface areas of Belfast.…
Interpretations of CEO public apologies for the banking crisis: Attributions of blame and avoidance of responsibility
This article analyses the public testimony of four banking CEOs to the Banking Crisis Inquiry of the Treasury Committee of the UK House of Commons in 2009. Utilizing a discursive and interpretive approach, we explore how they attributed responsibility and blame for the crisis through the medium of public apologies. A number of taxonomies of apology are employed to provide an interpretive framework for the analysis. We conclude that the CEO discou…
Skilled Interpersonal Communication: Classroom Management Techniques for Teachers
There is a fundamental, powerful, and universal desire amongst humans to interact with others. People have a deep-seated need to communicate, and the greater their ability in this regard the more satisfying and rewarding their lives will be. The contribution of skilled interpersonal communication to success in both personal and professional contexts is now widely recognised and extensively researched. As such, knowledge of various types of skills…
Learning together, living apart: The experiences of university students in Northern Ireland
Elementary (primary) and high (secondary) school education in Northern Ireland (NI) is essentially segregated along religious lines. The vast majority of young people from the Protestant/Unionist/British community attend state “Controlled” schools while Catholics/ Nationalists/Irish attend schools in the Catholic Church‐based “Maintained” sector. Going to university represents for many the first opportunity to share a significant educational expe…
Religious Difference, Inter-Group Trust, Attraction, and Disclosure Amongst Young People in Northern Ireland
This study examines the extent and pattern of out-group contact amongst a cohort of Catholic and Protestant first year university students in Northern Ireland (N.I.). Attitudes towards mixing with members of the out-group were also considered, together with a complex of constructs identified in the literature as being central to friendship development. These included group identification, self-disclosure, out-group attraction, and trust. Gender d…
Preparing Adolescents for Selection Interviews: The Impact of a Training Intervention on Levels of Worry and Locus of Control
This study evaluated the impact of an interview skills training intervention on adolescent school pupils in Northern Ireland. In particular, it explored their levels of interview-related worry and career locus of control orientations, and how they were affected by the programme concerned. A sample of 264 students aged 14–16 were assigned to a training (n = 132) or control (n = 132) condition. Trainees were significantly less worried than their co…
The Effects of Religious Affiliation in Northern Ireland upon Levels of Self-disclosure of Undergraduates
This paper investigates the relationship between self-disclosure levels and religious affiliation of undergraduates in Northern Ireland. Since self-disclosure is usually an indicator of degree of interpersonal trust and intimacy, the primary hypothesis in this study was that, given the political situation in N.I. wherein religious convictions reflect political affiliation, females within this age group would self-disclose more to females of the s…
Interpersonal Attraction and the Influence of Video-Mediated Advertising Presentations on Young People
Television is a potent advertising medium (Hobson, 1988). In the USA, Channel One is a television news programme which carries commercials explicitly targeting the youth market, directly into the classroom. This has provoked considerable debate over just how vulnerable students are to such attempts at influence (Greenberg and Brand, 1993). The physical attractiveness of the presenter or central character is a common influencing strategy (Cialdini…
Communication as a Focus in the Continuing Education of Pharmacists
This paper describes some of the problems of pharmaceutical continuing education, and examines the needs of pharmacists in relation to on-going education and training. Communication skills training is identified as a specific need to be addressed in both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Among the reasons for this are, the evolution of the clinical pharmacy movement, profession review, the legitimate claims of the behavioural sciences fo…
Training Teachers in Counselling Skills: The Effects of Microcounselling
S ummary . This paper examines the effects of a programme of microcounselling upon the training of in‐service teachers in specific counselling skills. It is argued that differences exist between the patterns of teacher questions common in classrooms and those appropriate in counselling, and that similar differences can be found between the proportion of teacher‐ and pupil‐talk in both settings. It was found that, following microcounselling, teach…
People have a knack of making you feel excluded if they catch on to your difference: Transgender experiences of exclusion in sport
While there is a growing literature in the field of gender, sexuality and sport, there is a dearth of research into the lived experiences of transgender people in sport. The present study addresses this research gap by exploring and analysing the accounts of transgender people in relation to their experiences of sport and physical activity. These are examined within the theoretical rubrics of social exclusion and minority stress theory. The findi…
Constructions of Social Exclusion Among Young People From Interface Areas of Northern Ireland
The concept of social exclusion has attracted considerable interest and debate over the past 20 years. It is a multifaceted concept, which has been delineated in a variety of ways by different theorists. This article explores the main defining features of social exclusion, and proceeds to investigate the extent to which these are manifested in practice, in relation to the lived experiences of young people from deprived interface areas of Belfast.…
Can Sport Build Peace After Conflict? Public Attitudes in Transitional Northern Ireland
The growth of the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement has provoked considerable scholarly interrogation of the claimed social benefits of sport. However, little is known of public attitudes to the topic. This article reports research carried out in Northern Ireland regarding sport as a means of bringing divided communities together. Respondents viewed sport as effective in breaking down barriers, yet the demographic reach in terms of t…
Double-Bind Accountability Dilemmas: Impression Management and Accountability Strategies Used by Senior Banking Executives
This article considers issues of impression management and accountability in the context of the U.K. Banking Crisis Inquiry, which took place in February 2009. In this setting, the bankers' public image was under serious threat and successful impression management depended on their ability to avoid being held responsible for the crisis. However, in attempting to mitigate or deny their own accountability, they generated a further set of a set of c…
Learning together, living apart: The experiences of university students in Northern Ireland
Elementary (primary) and high (secondary) school education in Northern Ireland (NI) is essentially segregated along religious lines. The vast majority of young people from the Protestant/Unionist/British community attend state “Controlled” schools while Catholics/ Nationalists/Irish attend schools in the Catholic Church‐based “Maintained” sector. Going to university represents for many the first opportunity to share a significant educational expe…
The structuration of a sporting social system? Northern Ireland fans, Football for All and the creation of the Green and White Army
In terms of the extant literature to date on sport and fandom in the divided society of Northern Ireland, academic attention has focused almost exclusively on its apparently contentious nature. However, until now, there has been a dearth of actual empirical data to inform such analyses. This article is designed to help rectify this deficit by drawing upon interviews with Northern Ireland football supporters and Irish Football Association staff to…
Sport for peace in Northern Ireland? Civil society, change and constraint after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Using the case of Northern Ireland, this article examines how post-conflict transition impacts sports organisations which have traditionally underpinned societal division and what factors facilitate or restrain such organisations from fulfilling peacebuilding functions. The article identifies three peacebuilding functions of sport: in-group socialisation, promoting social cohesion and symbolically representing new identities. Then, after outlinin…
Communication accommodation in a divided society: Interaction patterns between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland
Combatting sectarianism from the ground up: The Northern Irish Green and White Army and the football carnival
This paper draws upon participant observation data conducted before and after all 10 qualifying matches for the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship to explore the dynamics underpinning the Northern Irish Green and White Army (GAWA) football carnival. Supplemented by interviews with Northern Ireland fans themselves and informed by the dramaturgical perspectives of Erving Goffman, the paper contends that the anti-sectarian 'norms' of GAWA foot…
Training Teachers in Counselling Skills: The Effects of Microcounselling
S ummary . This paper examines the effects of a programme of microcounselling upon the training of in‐service teachers in specific counselling skills. It is argued that differences exist between the patterns of teacher questions common in classrooms and those appropriate in counselling, and that similar differences can be found between the proportion of teacher‐ and pupil‐talk in both settings. It was found that, following microcounselling, teach…
Communication as a Focus in the Continuing Education of Pharmacists
This paper describes some of the problems of pharmaceutical continuing education, and examines the needs of pharmacists in relation to on-going education and training. Communication skills training is identified as a specific need to be addressed in both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Among the reasons for this are, the evolution of the clinical pharmacy movement, profession review, the legitimate claims of the behavioural sciences fo…
The Effects of Religious Affiliation in Northern Ireland upon Levels of Self-disclosure of Undergraduates
This paper investigates the relationship between self-disclosure levels and religious affiliation of undergraduates in Northern Ireland. Since self-disclosure is usually an indicator of degree of interpersonal trust and intimacy, the primary hypothesis in this study was that, given the political situation in N.I. wherein religious convictions reflect political affiliation, females within this age group would self-disclose more to females of the s…
Interpersonal Attraction and the Influence of Video-Mediated Advertising Presentations on Young People
Television is a potent advertising medium (Hobson, 1988). In the USA, Channel One is a television news programme which carries commercials explicitly targeting the youth market, directly into the classroom. This has provoked considerable debate over just how vulnerable students are to such attempts at influence (Greenberg and Brand, 1993). The physical attractiveness of the presenter or central character is a common influencing strategy (Cialdini…
Preparing Adolescents for Selection Interviews: The Impact of a Training Intervention on Levels of Worry and Locus of Control
This study evaluated the impact of an interview skills training intervention on adolescent school pupils in Northern Ireland. In particular, it explored their levels of interview-related worry and career locus of control orientations, and how they were affected by the programme concerned. A sample of 264 students aged 14–16 were assigned to a training (n = 132) or control (n = 132) condition. Trainees were significantly less worried than their co…
Religious Difference, Inter-Group Trust, Attraction, and Disclosure Amongst Young People in Northern Ireland
This study examines the extent and pattern of out-group contact amongst a cohort of Catholic and Protestant first year university students in Northern Ireland (N.I.). Attitudes towards mixing with members of the out-group were also considered, together with a complex of constructs identified in the literature as being central to friendship development. These included group identification, self-disclosure, out-group attraction, and trust. Gender d…
Learning together, living apart: The experiences of university students in Northern Ireland
Elementary (primary) and high (secondary) school education in Northern Ireland (NI) is essentially segregated along religious lines. The vast majority of young people from the Protestant/Unionist/British community attend state “Controlled” schools while Catholics/ Nationalists/Irish attend schools in the Catholic Church‐based “Maintained” sector. Going to university represents for many the first opportunity to share a significant educational expe…
Interpretations of CEO public apologies for the banking crisis: Attributions of blame and avoidance of responsibility
This article analyses the public testimony of four banking CEOs to the Banking Crisis Inquiry of the Treasury Committee of the UK House of Commons in 2009. Utilizing a discursive and interpretive approach, we explore how they attributed responsibility and blame for the crisis through the medium of public apologies. A number of taxonomies of apology are employed to provide an interpretive framework for the analysis. We conclude that the CEO discou…
Skilled Interpersonal Communication: Classroom Management Techniques for Teachers
There is a fundamental, powerful, and universal desire amongst humans to interact with others. People have a deep-seated need to communicate, and the greater their ability in this regard the more satisfying and rewarding their lives will be. The contribution of skilled interpersonal communication to success in both personal and professional contexts is now widely recognised and extensively researched. As such, knowledge of various types of skills…
Double-Bind Accountability Dilemmas: Impression Management and Accountability Strategies Used by Senior Banking Executives
This article considers issues of impression management and accountability in the context of the U.K. Banking Crisis Inquiry, which took place in February 2009. In this setting, the bankers' public image was under serious threat and successful impression management depended on their ability to avoid being held responsible for the crisis. However, in attempting to mitigate or deny their own accountability, they generated a further set of a set of c…
Constructions of Social Exclusion Among Young People From Interface Areas of Northern Ireland
The concept of social exclusion has attracted considerable interest and debate over the past 20 years. It is a multifaceted concept, which has been delineated in a variety of ways by different theorists. This article explores the main defining features of social exclusion, and proceeds to investigate the extent to which these are manifested in practice, in relation to the lived experiences of young people from deprived interface areas of Belfast.…
Communication accommodation in a divided society: Interaction patterns between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland
Skilled Interpersonal Communication: Research, Theory and Practice
There is a fundamental, powerful, and universal desire amongst humans to interact with others. People have a deep-seated need to communicate, and the greater their ability in this regard the more satisfying and rewarding their lives will be. The contribution of skilled interpersonal communication to success in both personal and professional contexts is now widely recognised and extensively researched. As such, knowledge of various types of skills…
Sport for peace in Northern Ireland? Civil society, change and constraint after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Using the case of Northern Ireland, this article examines how post-conflict transition impacts sports organisations which have traditionally underpinned societal division and what factors facilitate or restrain such organisations from fulfilling peacebuilding functions. The article identifies three peacebuilding functions of sport: in-group socialisation, promoting social cohesion and symbolically representing new identities. Then, after outlinin…
People have a knack of making you feel excluded if they catch on to your difference: Transgender experiences of exclusion in sport
While there is a growing literature in the field of gender, sexuality and sport, there is a dearth of research into the lived experiences of transgender people in sport. The present study addresses this research gap by exploring and analysing the accounts of transgender people in relation to their experiences of sport and physical activity. These are examined within the theoretical rubrics of social exclusion and minority stress theory. The findi…
The Handbook of Communication Skills
Editorial Introduction. Part 1 Communication skill in theory and practice. O. Hargie, Skill in Theory: Communication as Skilled Behaviour. O. Hargie, Skill in Practice: An Operational Model of Communicative Performance. Part II Core communication skills. R.A. Gordon, D. Druckman, R.M. Rozelle, J.C. Baxter, Nonverbal Communication as Communication: Approaches, Issues and Research. D. Dickson, O. Hargie, Questioning. L. Cairns, Reinforcement. D. Di…
The structuration of a sporting social system? Northern Ireland fans, Football for All and the creation of the Green and White Army
In terms of the extant literature to date on sport and fandom in the divided society of Northern Ireland, academic attention has focused almost exclusively on its apparently contentious nature. However, until now, there has been a dearth of actual empirical data to inform such analyses. This article is designed to help rectify this deficit by drawing upon interviews with Northern Ireland football supporters and Irish Football Association staff to…
Can Sport Build Peace After Conflict? Public Attitudes in Transitional Northern Ireland
The growth of the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement has provoked considerable scholarly interrogation of the claimed social benefits of sport. However, little is known of public attitudes to the topic. This article reports research carried out in Northern Ireland regarding sport as a means of bringing divided communities together. Respondents viewed sport as effective in breaking down barriers, yet the demographic reach in terms of t…
Combatting sectarianism from the ground up: The Northern Irish Green and White Army and the football carnival
This paper draws upon participant observation data conducted before and after all 10 qualifying matches for the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship to explore the dynamics underpinning the Northern Irish Green and White Army (GAWA) football carnival. Supplemented by interviews with Northern Ireland fans themselves and informed by the dramaturgical perspectives of Erving Goffman, the paper contends that the anti-sectarian 'norms' of GAWA foot…
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