Discursive discrimination and panhandling in Winnipeg newspapers

dc.contributor.authorMacKinnon, Sarah G.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-12T20:14:13Z
dc.date.available2012-06-12T20:14:13Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.degree.disciplineSociologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractPanhandlers everywhere are a disenfranchised population. They lack the resources necessary to fulfill their basic needs and they encounter discrimination as they go about their daily business. While some people support panhandlers and advocate on their behalf, others believe that panhandlers are criminal, dangerous, illegitimately needy, lazy, morally lax individuals who are the agents of their own misfortune. This thesis uses qualitative analysis to examine how panhandlers are represented in Winnipeg newspapers. It explores what these representations mean in terms of a phenomenological orientation which assumes that we create the meaning of our world and those around us through social interaction. This thesis finds that panhandlers are predominantly represented in negative ways in Winnipeg newspapers but suggests that reading newspapers more critically, along with advocating for panhandlers, resisting anti-panhandling by-laws, and empowering panhandlers to represent themselves may improve panhandlers' status in Winnipeg.en_US
dc.format.extent6108894 bytesen_US
dc.identifier(Sirsi) a1891619en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/8043
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.titleDiscursive discrimination and panhandling in Winnipeg newspapersen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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