Working?class women in a middle?class world: The impact of television on modes of reasoning about abortion
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies in Mass Communication
- Vol. 8 (4) , 421-441
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15295039109366807
Abstract
This paper investigates how focus groups of working‐class and middle‐class women discuss abortion before and after viewing a television show that treats the issue. It describes differences between the discourse of the social classes about the issue, and differences or similarities in television's impact on abortion discourse in the two types of groups. Working‐class women use a more critical mode of speech than middle‐class women in discussing abortion, and the groups' speech becomes more similar following television viewing.Keywords
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