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1 online resource (454 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Proposes that Americans form views on immigration and social welfare programs from conventional ways of speaking rather than from ideologies |
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Racial differences/cultural inferiority discourse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- United States -- Public opinion
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Public welfare -- United States -- Public opinion
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Public opinion -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Immigrants -- Public opinion
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Public opinion
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Public welfare -- Public opinion
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011045123 |
| ISBN |
9781139779661 |
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1139779664 |
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9781139782654 |
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1139782657 |
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1107019923 |
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9781107019928 |
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