Ethnic Differences in Interpretive Conventions and the Reproduction of Inequality in Everyday Life |
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Authors: | Stephen O. Murray |
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Abstract: | Failure of conversational involvement based on compounding unrecognized clashes of interpreting the intent of utterances has serious consequences in gatekeeping encounters, and also in excluding those socialized within ethnic minorities from easy participation in the informal organizations within workplaces. Examples of some divergent social meanings of interactional features and some interactional breakdowns suggest how unconscious patterns of interpreting the intent of interlocutors can lead to reinforcing stereotypes about ethnic groups. |
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