Deep stories provide culturally rooted lenses for interpreting social worlds.

Evidence

White Christian nationalism writes a “deep story” in which “we” deserve power and “they” do not. Deep stories are powerful because they give people ready-made narratives rooted in culture that provide organization and structure to the world around them. They are effectively the lenses through which we see and interpret our social worlds. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 228

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concise definition of the deep-story concept, which extends the earlier chapter’s treatment of deep stories and nostalgia.
• ADDENDUM: Connects to themes in the complaint-about-morality articles: ready-made cultural narratives explaining whose side one should be on.
• XREF: connects to: Nearly every people independently creates culture-hero stories to explain origins — , A Year of World Stories, 15277; National identity is constructed through stories, memories, and images — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 123; Narrative knowledge transmits the pragmatic rules that constitute the social bond — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 200 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceptions of the Other are always filtered through one’s own cultural narrative forms. #exemplifies (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 351
• Perceptions of the Other are always shaped by available cultural tools #exemplifies (0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 351
• Uncontacted peoples on opposite sides of the earth independently created culture-hero stories #exemplifies (0.80) — , A Year of World Stories, 15276
• Nearly every people independently creates culture-hero stories to explain origins #exemplifies (0.78) — , A Year of World Stories, 15277
• National identity is constructed through stories, memories, and images #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 123
• Narrative knowledge transmits the pragmatic rules that constitute the social bond #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 200
• National consciousness forms through language and literature, not only through shared ancestry #expands (0.73)
• Social science interprets the interpretations that culture makes of life #corroborates (0.72) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 250
• Media orient citizens by sifting out intersubjectively shared interpretations of the world #exemplifies (0.72) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 41
• Cultural meaning shifts with the social field it enters #qualifies (0.72)