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Discrimination imbedded in social theory
Título Evento
British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2015
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2015
Língua
Inglês
País
Reino Unido
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Abstract/Resumo
This paper seeks to underscore how present sociological characteristics favour the naturalizing of
current discriminations. Starting with the example of the axiological discrimination between experts
(observers) and the groups they themselves stratify (objects of study). Favouring the naturalization of
the normal (i.e. objects of study whose behaviour is similar to that of the observers’) and of moralism
(i.e. the implicit strangeness imbedded in the social theories and the classifications of the objects of
study). Favouring the search for the causes of misery and violence in individual free will, evading the
configurational co-responsibility of social conditions in the construction of the mechanisms and
environments with which people live and to which they react.
The dissimulation of intentions and socio-political views that legitimize institutional violence is one of
the characteristics of our times. It is worthwhile remembering how the separation between the action
and its representations, the nomination of those against whom violence may be exercised, is ancestral.
What should the role of the social sciences be: simply to monitor stigmatized violence (its negative
form) or to participate in the construction of violence as instrument of social orientation (sometimes
positive others negative)?
Agradecimentos/Acknowledgements
“This paper was supported by the Portuguese Government through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Strategic Financing of the R&D Unit UID/SOC/03126/2013”
Palavras-chave
social theory,violence,human nature,orientation processes,resilience