The Social Construction of Discrimination Across Cultural Groups

• In Event: Making Sense of Collective Identities and Uncertainties: The Construction of Social Worlds from a Narrative Perspective

Abstract

Through an inductive, qualitative methodological frame, this study examines 957 stories of discrimination collected as part of a larger study on uncertainty in oppressive forms of communication. Using a coordinated management of meaning theoretical frame of analysis, several thematic insights are explicated demonstrating the (1) core elements of communicative discrimination across narratives, and (2) diverse nature of meaning-making across different cultural groups.

Authors

• Mark Orbe, Western Michigan University

• Sakile Camara, California State University, Northridge