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Why Poor and Why Rich: International Surveys Validate Attribution Theory
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Harmon, Mark D. |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Political communication research recently has taken a promising and interesting turn, examining whether political conservatives and political liberals process messages very differently. This turn has been led by George Lakoff who lately has been prompting U.S. liberals about how they must frame their messages; he also has chastised them for surrendering political discourse to political conservatives, specifically letting the conservatives frame the terms of debate (Lakoff, 2010). The Lakoff claims fit well within Attribution Theory and largely have been advanced regarding the United States. This research seeks to test whether these phenomena are culture-specific to the U. S. or if such processing of political messages is a more universal phenomenon. Specifically the researcher conducts a secondary analysis of four large international polls and one national poll, the Polish General Social Survey. The polls all featured questions about why others are poor or wealthy. All these polls also asked questions about political philosophy, liberal to conservative. If the Lakoff points “travel well,” then political conservatives, true to Attribution Theory, will see both poverty and wealth as a consequence of individual traits. Political liberals would point to social conditions for both wealth and poverty. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=ccisymposium |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
