Researchers are examining underlying processes of interaction between social scientific and everyday lay discourses. The goal is to determine if the principles used in social sciences to explain the social world can be combined with interpretative resources used by lay social actors.
The project LSSDMIC (Lay and social science discourses on identity, citizenship and migration) is focusing on different ways in which social-scientific discourses are synthesised and filtered back to lay discourses, and how they are taken up by lay social actors. To achieve this, the researchers are drawing on critical discursive psychology and social network analysis.
Further details: Making sense of our world through discussion