Zusammenfassung der Ressource
DISCOURSE AND RACISM
- Discourse strands and
collective symbols
- STRANDS
- Several discourses are
tangled
- Knot discourse
- Encompasses
various subtopics
- Intensive
discourses
- COLLECTIVE
SYMBOLS
- Cultural Stereotypes
- Topoi
- Catachereses
- Technique for
collecting symbols
- The main focus of the
Duisburg studies is
- Semantics
- Siegfried Jäger and the
Duisburg group
- Their method leads people to tell
their personal stories in depth
- media analysis, in
particular of the
German tabloid
Bildzeitung
- The main focus of the
Duisburg is study
- Semantics discourse
- discourse levels” (i.e. science,
politics, media, education,
everyday life, business life, and
administra tion).
- That are immediately
understood by the
mem bers of the same
speech community
- The Loughborough group
- They tend to universilized
the conditions of racism
- Discourse is actively constitutive
of both social and psychological
processes
- prejudices and stereotypes
- What are prejudice and stereotype?
- prejudices are mental states in a social group
defining negative attitudes of stereotypic
convictions or beliefs.
- Prejudices and stereotypes are analytical approaches to racism
- there is another apprach which is
- the Sociocognitive
approach
- prejudice is not based on individual beliefs or emotions, on contrary is based on social communication and
interaction that conforms 8 categories of discrimination
- diversion
- dominance
- diffusion
- depersonalization
- differentiation
- distance
- destruction
- daily
discrimination
- the text suggests the long-term memory
keeps the production and retention of
social prejudices
- Which are those social prejudices?
- prejudices are influenced by status, appearance,
social cultural norms and socioeconomic status,
religion, language.
- The Social prejudices keep production and retention in
- long-term memory through
- the episodic memory that belongs in personal experiences narrated or
personally retained experiences
- Where come from prejudices?
- The elites produces and reproduces the racism
that is implemented and enacted in other social
fields.
- linguistically Quasthoff (2001) defines stereotype
as a verbal expression caused by convictions or
beliefs toward a social group.
- Racist discourses
- the text requires people do Racist discourses
dynamic and contradictory.
- which is the function of Racist discourses?
- to construct collective subjects such as:
- races
- nations
- ethnicities
- construction, perpetuating,
transformational, and destructive social
context
- play a decisive role in the genesis and
production of certain social conditions
- perpetuate, produce and justify a certain social status. "realized"
"natinalized" "ethnicized".
- The analytical discourse includes different studies such as
- the topic or the contents
- argumentation
- linguistic mean
- discriminatory stereotypes
- Conclusion
- it is possible to delimit racism from adjacent or
possibly overlapping discriminatory phenomena
- Antisemitism
- Nationalism
- Ethnicism
- Sexism
- Clear boundaries
between these
differences
- Despite the vast amount of
specialist literature in the areas
- social
science
- philosophy
- discourse
analysis
- history
- Definition of
race
- Synopsis of five discourse analytical approaches
- Problem of Racism, and a
illustration of the
discourse-historical
approach.
- Racism remains amultifaceled and theoretically
complex issue that leaves us without comprenhesive
ansewrs to many questions
- What exctly are we supossed to take "racist" and "racism" to mean?
- Which specific forms of “genetic,” “culturalist,” and “institutional
racism” do we nowadays face and what causes them?
- How do these different forms of racism manifest themselves in
discourse?
- Analytical
approaches
- Of the Historical
approach
- The problem of
racism
- Illustration
- The Concept of Race
- We can define it by 2 areas
- Biology
- Genetics
- From a social functional point of view,
“race” is a social construcion
- It has been used as a legitimating ideological tool to oppress
and exploit specific social groups
- To deny the access to
- Material resources
- Cultural
resources
- Political resources
- Work
- Welfare
services
- Housing
- Political rights
- The concept around and used it to construct
an alternative, positive self-identity
- Also used it as a basis for political
resistance and to fight for
- Political autonomy
- Independence
- participation