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  title info:
    title: Making sense of public opinion
    sub title: American discourses about immigration and social programs
  name:
    name part: Strauss, Claudia
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxviii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Americans express contradictory views on immigration and social welfare programs. Claudia Strauss proposes that these views are formed not from standard ideologies or broad values, but from conventional ways of speaking about topics. The wording of a survey question or political message may cue one specific discourse, while a slightly different wording can trigger opposing opinions held by the same speaker. By identifying and describing common vernacular discourses, this book illustrates how discourses construct our opinions on immigration and social welfare. This study draws on interviews with people from various backgrounds to demonstrate how we acquire conventional discourses from our opinion communities. Immigration and Social Programs explains what conventional discourses are, how to study them and why they are fundamental elements of public opinion and political culture.
  table of contents: Part I. Overview -- 1. Conventional discourses, public opinion, and political culture -- 2. Analysis of conventional discourses: backgrounds and methods -- 3. Conventional discourses and personal lives -- Part II. Immgration -- 4. Public opinion about immigration -- 5. 'Too many immigrants' and discourses about economic costs and benefits -- 6. Discourses about legality, illegality, and national security -- 7. Discourses about immigration and American culture -- 8. Discourses about immigration causes and contexts -- Part III. Social Welfare Programs -- 9. Public opinion about social welfare programs -- 10. Discourses about limitations of government programs -- 11. Discourses about personal responsibility and benefits for the deserving -- 12. Discourses about caring for self, family, community, and nation -- 13. Discourses about social causes of economic insecurity -- Part IV. Conclusion -- 14. Questions and implications.
  note: Claudia Strauss.
  note: "Including 'Mexican American discourses and the theory of divergence' by Hannah Pick"--Title page.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-402) and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    geographic: United States
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Public welfare
    geographic: United States
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Public opinion
    geographic: United States
  classification: JV6456 .S77 2012
  classification: 362.89/9120973
  identifier: 9781107019928 (hardback)
  identifier: 1107019923 (hardback)
  identifier: 2011045123
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 111028
    record change date: 20150922144725.0
    record identifier: in00002783313