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Interest, Ideology, and Claims-Making Activity.
- Source :
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Sociological Inquiry . Fall91, Vol. 61 Issue 4, p452-470. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 1991
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Abstract
- Social constructionists have produced a rich theoretical and empirical literature on the rise and fall of public issues. By focusing exclusively on claims-making behavior in a micro interactive context, social constructionists, in the tradition of Spector and Kitsuse, generally have rejected efforts to link claims-making to antecedent variables. Thus they often treat claims-making participants as activities, devoid of motives, meanings, and intentions. In this paper, ideology and interest are offered as antecedent variables to claims-making and as the critical factors which determine why some claims are more marketable than others. Interest and ideology also are examined as both subjective and structural/cultural phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00380245
- Volume :
- 61
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Sociological Inquiry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28778610
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00173.x