Narrative Structures and the Catholic Church Closings in Detroit

Jeffrey C. Bridger; David R. Maines

doi:10.1023/A:1022198604543

Narrative Structures and the Catholic Church Closings in Detroit

Jeffrey C. Bridger, David R. Maines

Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education

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Abstract

We distinguish narrative structures as master frames from stories as actual telling of events, and show how they operated in the case of the Catholic church closings in Detroit in the late 1980s. Narrative structures drawn from Detroit industrial history and from reform in the Catholic church were imposed on the actual events constituting the closing process, and powerfully defined the terms of public discussion and debate about the meaning of the closings.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	319-340
Number of pages	22
Journal	Qualitative Sociology
Volume	21
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022198604543
State	Published - 1998

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Sociology and Political Science

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