Social integration of Australian Muslims

A dramaturgical perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID2399282
AuthorsHadi Sohrabi (0000-0002-8499-8212, Swinburne University of Technology, corresponding author), Karen Farquharson (0000-0001-5848-865X, Swinburne University of Technology)
Year2016
Volume52
Issue2
Pages387-402
Publication date2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1440783314562415
OpenAlexW2026845218
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited14

This article presents a dramaturgical view of the social integration of minorities. Based on 30 interviews with prominent Australian Muslim leaders, we argue that they explain and approach the problem of social integration largely in presentational terms. As a corollary, their chief collective and political strategy towards social integration is to put forward alternative discourses to counter the dominant anti-Islam discourses. We use Goffman's (1959, 1963) dramaturgical model to analyse their strategies. In a striking difference from dominant narratives that situate Islamic values and western values as incompatible, the analysis we provide shows that Muslim leaders do not see Islamic teachings or texts as a problem for social integration; rather they view the problem as negative media representations and the solution as putting forward alternative images

Aesthetics · Corollary · Dramaturgy · Epistemology · Islam · Narrative · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Presentational and representational acting · Social integration · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Education and Islamic Studies · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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