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As theories of social classes evolved during the 19th century, some scholars concluded that public opinion was primarily the domain of the upper classes. In 1849, the English author William A. Mackinnon defined it as “that sentiment on any given subject which is entertained by the best informed...
"Theaccommodationmodel ascribes style shifts to the speaker's evaluation of the addressee's social identity. A positive evaluation results in 'convergence,' where a speaker begins to sound more like the addressee (conversely, a negative evaluation results in 'divergence,' where the speaker marks s...
sense of placeThis article applies social constructionist theorizing and narrative analysis to study senses of place expressed by a sample of Bosnian immigrants in Vermont. Sense of place is theorized as a complex of emergent meanings, made visible in stories about people's everyday experiences, ...
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By looking at the scales of politics from a social constructionist perspective the article shows that this widely‐used metaphor does not adequately capture much of the political history of region building, nor is it able to identify the relations of power involved in regionalisation in the era ...
“strict constructionist.” In 1970, for example, Black refused to join in the attempts of other Court justices to abolish capital punishment. He argued that references to the takings of “life” and to “capital” crimes in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments made approval of the death ...
“populist” approach acknowledges the tendency of public opinion to shift as individuals interact with each other or respond to media influences. It has been opposed by theories of the “elitist” or social constructionist category, which emphasize the manipulative aspects of communication and ...