Who is expected to make contact? Interpretative repertoires related to an intergroup encounter between Finnish majority mothers and immigrant mothers

Riikonen, R, Finell, E, Suoninen, E, Paajenen, P and Stevenson, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2438-6425, 2022. Who is expected to make contact? Interpretative repertoires related to an intergroup encounter between Finnish majority mothers and immigrant mothers. British Journal of Social Psychology. ISSN 0144-6665

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Abstract

Although the benefits of contact for positive intergroup relations are widely acknowledged, less is known about how group members construct the agency and responsibility of contact participants in intergroup encounters. Using critical discursive psychology, we analysed the interpretative repertoires that Finnish majority mothers (N=13) and mothers with an immigrant background (N=10) used when talking about a hypothetical intergroup encounter among Finnish and immigrant mothers in a ‘family café’ (a group for mothers and children). Our analysis identified five interpretative repertoires that differed in terms of the levels of categorisation used (individual, group, motherhood) and how agency and responsibility for initiating contact were discursively attributed to the parties in the intergroup encounter. Overall, constructing someone as agentic did not automatically result in their being portrayed as more responsible for making contact. Respondents described contact to occur with only two repertoires, in which both agency and responsibility for initiating contact were discursively attributed to the same party. This highlights the need to consider both agency and sense of responsibility as possible factors preceding intergroup contact.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	British Journal of Social Psychology
Creators:	Riikonen, R., Finell, E., Suoninen, E., Paajenen, P. and Stevenson, C.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	22 September 2022
ISSN:	0144-6665
Identifiers:	Number Type 1596141 Other 10.1111/bjso.12580 DOI
Rights:	© 2022 the authors. British Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	09 Sep 2022 13:13
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2022 14:44
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/47007

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