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‘You don't compare horrors, you just don't do that’: Examining assumptions and extending the scope of comparative victim beliefs

Johanna Ray Vollhardt; Helin Ünal, and Rashmi Nair · 2022

Catalogue summary

Eight focus groups across four U.S. minority communities, including Armenian Americans, reveal that participants both accepted and resisted comparative victimhood measures while describing shifting ingroup and outgroup power after collective harm.

Why this matters

The qualitative findings complicate standard survey constructs and give diaspora-memory research a comparative account of how Armenian Americans discuss victimization.

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Published in
British Journal of Social Psychology
Year
2022
Language
English
DOI
10.1111/bjso.12554

Citation

Johanna Ray Vollhardt; Helin Ünal, and Rashmi Nair 2022. ‘You don't compare horrors, you just don't do that’: Examining assumptions and extending the scope of comparative victim beliefs. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12554

Topics

DiasporaGender, family, memory, and oral historySociety, science, and public health

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