Drawing on interviews with people from various backgrounds strauss identifies and describes 59 conventional discourses about immigration and social welfare and demonstrates how we acquire conventional discourses from our opinion communities making sense of public opinion american discourses about immigration and social programs explains what . Click on the article title to read more. Skip to main content menu search browse resources authors librarians editors societies. Making sense of public opinion american discourses about immigration and social programs by strauss claudia cambridge cambridge university press 2013 439pp gbp6000 isbn 978 1107019928 liam stanley. Making sense of public opinion american discourses about immigration and social programs claudia strauss format book published new york cambridge university press 2012 description xxviii 424 p ill 24 cm notes including mexican american discourses and the theory of divergence by hannah pick