Doctoral Dissertation Research: Media, Social Context and Public Discourse

博士论文研究：媒体、社会背景和公共话语

• 批准号: 0828479
• 负责人: Pamela Oliver
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-15 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0828479&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Media; Social

Pamela E. Oliver (PI), Peter K. Brinson (Co-PI)Institution: University of Wisconsin, MadisonTitle: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Media, Social Context, and Public Discourse0828479AbstractThis research project will examine the process by which different groups of people draw from their cognitive beliefs, attitudes, feelings, and moral values to develop specific opinions about same-sex marriage and civil unions. Data will be gathered through focus group interviews of people living in the American Midwest to analyze how people talk about, conceive, and understand same-sex marriage and unions. One goal is to examine how people mobilize cultural understandings as they construct opinions about contentious issues. This project uses the case of same-sex marriage and civil unions to examine both how people are constrained by the ?structure? of culture, and how people use culture ?pragmatically? in order to make sense of the debate. Focus group participants will be drawn from a variety of already-existing groups in civil society to ensure a diversity of perspectives between groups. The transcripts of the focus group discussion will be coded and analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. One level of analysis will identify the discursive similarities and differences among group discussions, including the group dynamics, cultural attitudes and beliefs, frames, points of agreement and disagreement, and argumentative logics and resources. A second level of analysis will relate discursive similarities and differences to differences between groups. Special attention will be given to differences among the ideological and social context of interaction in each group, including discursive differences between the younger and older generations and those between the groups in civil society from which focus groups are drawn (e.g. recreational, religious). The results of this study will be publicized and disseminated broadly in order to shed light on politics of same-sex unions, and provide a greater depth of knowledge about where people?s attitudes about same-sex unions. This dissertation research will contribute both to the specific debate about legalizing same-sex relationships and to the more general understanding of the relationship between political discourse and democracy. More broadly, this research will be relevant to debates about the tenor of political discourse in the United States: whether political discourse today is too extreme or too tepid, whether ideological differences reflect irreconcilable ?culture wars,? or whether the political system artificially constrains the terms of political debate to the ideological ?middle.? Finally, this study will contribute to this debate by examining how people in different social contexts talk about one controversial issue in both similar and different ways?how culture both facilitates and constrains public discourse.

帕梅拉·E·奥利弗（Pamela E. 数据将通过焦点小组访谈来收集，以分析人们如何谈论，怀孕和理解同性婚姻和工会的人们。 一个目标是研究人们在构建有关有争议问题的观点时如何动员文化理解。该项目使用同性婚姻和民间工会的情况来检查人们如何受到“结构”的约束？文化以及人们如何使用文化？务实？为了理解辩论。 焦点小组参与者将从民间社会中已经存在的各个群体中吸引，以确保群体之间的观点多样化。焦点小组讨论的笔录将进行定性和定量分配和分析。一级分析将确定小组讨论之间的话语相似性和差异，包括小组动态，文化态度和信念，框架，一致性和分歧的点以及论证的逻辑和资源。 第二个分析将将话语相似性和差异与群体之间的差异相关联。将特别注意每个群体中互动的意识形态和社会背景之间的差异，包括年轻一代和年龄段之间的话语差异，以及在这些民间社会中吸引焦点群体的群体之间的差异（例如，娱乐，宗教）。 这项研究的结果将被广泛宣传和传播，以阐明同性工会的政治，并为人们对同性工会的态度提供更深入的知识。 这项论文研究将有助于有关使同性关系合法化的具体辩论，以及对政治话语与民主之间关系的更一般的理解。 更广泛地说，这项研究将与关于美国政治话语的辩论有关：当今的政治话语是太极端还是太乏味，意识形态上的差异是否反映了无法调和的文化战争，？还是政治制度人为地将政治辩论的条款限制在意识形态中？ 最后，这项研究将通过研究不同社会环境中的人们如何以相似和不同的方式谈论一个有争议的问题来为这场辩论做出贡献？文化如何促进和限制公众话语。