Being Ascribed, and Resisting, Membership of an Ethnic Group

Reasoning with cultural categories in understanding student diversity

“…It informs our actions and behaviours (even in the face of evidence to the contrary as we will see below) and our understanding of others' actions and behaviours. For example, Day (1998) demonstrates the moral dimension of category work within a workplace when a participant resists categorisation on the basis of ethnicity and works to establish a category system that does not mark them as different on the basis of ethnicity, but rather marks them as similar, as just one of the staff.…”

The construction of word meaning in a multicultural classroom. Mediational tools in peer collaboration during mathematics lessons

“…The Dutch children take this ascribed role for granted. This division of roies in which members of the dominant culture take the position of cultural and linguistic specialists has been found frequently in studies of intercultural communication (e.g.. Koole & Ten Thije, 1994;Day, 1998).…”

‘New Zealand passport holder’ versus ‘New Zealander’? The marginalization of ethnic minorities in the news – A New Zealand case study

“…Therefore, it is easy to see that 'the dissemination and reification of figurative discourses that make the nation seem real' (De Cillia, Reisigl and Wodak, 1999: 153) is used by politicians, intellectuals and the mainstream media to portray the dominant ethnicity as the in-group and the norm in contrast to ethnic minorities who are represented as different and the out-group. The objective of this analysis is to not only understand more recent representation of ethnic minorities by the news media, but to also facilitate an understanding of the audience interpretation of and their resistance to the use of a specific 'label' as a membership categorization device (Day, 1998;Sacks, 1992).…”