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Making Sense of Public Opinion : American Discourses About Immigration and Social Programs.
Proposes that Americans form views on immigration and social welfare programs from conventional ways of speaking rather than from ideologies.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Making Sense of Public Opinion: American Discourses About Immigration and Social Programs; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Tables; Transcription Conventions; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I OVERVIEW; 1 Conventional Discourses, Public Opinion, and Political Culture; HOW AMERICANS TALK ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL PROVISION; WHAT ARE CONVENTIONAL DISCOURSES?; MYSTERIES OF OPINION; POLITICAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATION AND LARGER GOALS; 2 Analysis of Conventional Discourses: Background and Methods; AN OFT-REPEATED, SHARED SCHEMA.
- CONVENTIONAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS METHODS: DRAWING UP THE LISTIssue 1: No Conventional Discourses on the Topic in an Opinion Community; Issue 2: Comments That Are Not from a Conventional Discourse; Issue 3: Similar Attitudes on a Topic Do Not Necessarily Indicate a Shared Conventional Discourse; Issue 4: Shared Keywords Are Neither Necessary nor Sufficient as Indicators of a Shared Discourse; Issue 5: A Conventional Discourse Expresses a Particular Social Identity; Issue 6: People on Opposite Sides of an Issue Can Use the Same Discourse.
- Issue 7: Decisions About When to Lump and When to Split Also Depend on the Analyst's PurposesIssue 8: What Considerations Go into Choosing a Name for a Discourse?; SUMMARY; 3 Conventional Discourses and Personal Lives; DO PEOPLE JUST PASSIVELY ABSORB CONVENTIONAL DISCOURSES? ACQUIRING, INTERPRETING, AND BECOMING INVESTED IN DISCOURSES; People Are Influenced by Discourses in Their Opinion Communities; But People Are Selective Among Discourses; People Select Among Discourses on the Basis of Their Identities, Self-Interest, and Other Beliefs; People Interpret the Same Discourse Differently.
- People Differ in Their Investment in a DiscourseDiscourses, Opinion Communities, Identities, Formative Experiences, and Self-Interest Interact; Multiplicity of Discourses; How People Deal with Heterogeneous Conventional Discourses; Compartmentalized Discourses; True Ambivalence; Integration; HOW OPINIONS ARE CONSTRUCTED; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; PART II IMMIGRATION; 4 Public Opinion About Immigration; EXPLANATIONS OF PUBLIC OPINION IN THE SCHOLARLY LITERATURE; CONVENTIONAL DISCOURSES AND AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION ABOUT IMMIGRATION; Heterogeneous Discourses; NONCONFORMING DISCOURSES; SUMMARY.
- 5 ""Too Many Immigrants"" and Discourses About Economic Costs and BenefitsTOO MANY IMMIGRANTS DISCOURSE; FOREIGNERS TAKING OUR JOBS DISCOURSE; HELP OUR OWN FIRST DISCOURSE; BENEFITS FOR CONTRIBUTORS DISCOURSE; JOBS AMERICANS DON'T WANT DISCOURSE; IMMIGRANTS' WORK ETHIC DISCOURSE; FREE MARKET DISCOURSE; 6 Discourses About Legality, Illegality, and National Security; ILLEGAL IS WRONG DISCOURSE; NATIONAL SECURITY DISCOURSE; COMPREHENSIVE REFORM DISCOURSE; 7 Discourses About Immigration and American Culture; SPEAK ENGLISH AND ASSIMILATE DISCOURSE; NATIONAL SYMBOLS DISCOURSE.