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Beyond Words: Newspapers, Language Usage And Disability Stigma, Laura Kruczinski
Beyond Words: Newspapers, Language Usage And Disability Stigma, Laura Kruczinski
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Sociology has a long history of documenting socio-political views that are used by media to portray stereotypes and perpetuate the potential stigmas associated with race, social class, gender, and other disadvantaged social categories. There is comparatively little existing research that discusses how media coverage is connected to disability-related stigma. In this thesis, I use grounded theory to construct a content analysis of newspapers coverage of the 2016 United States Presidential Election. From the data, I examine how stereotypes related to disability may be used in political discourse, drawing from the refined theory of stigma, as outlined by Link and Phelan …