Memberships in a superordinate level: re-thinking European Union as a multi-national society
✍ Scribed by Xenia Chryssochoou
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 120 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1052-9284
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✦ Synopsis
This paper attempts to understand how people give meaning to the social categories they belong to in the context of superordinate group formation[ The context of investigation is the European Integration[ Participants were Greek and French nationals aged between 17 and 49[ First\ the lay theories within which the social categories acquire their meaning were investigated through the analysis of qualitative data[ 26 open!ended interviews "08 French\ 07 Greek participants# were analysed using an interpretative phenomenological approach "Smith et al[\ 0888#[ Second\ a questionnaire type study investigated the perception of the status!position of each national group "n 182\ French 034\ Greeks 037#[ It is argued that\ within commonly shared theories about European integration\ the status!position of the subgroups guides the selection of elements upon which di}erent representations of social categories are constructed[