Democracy Justifies the Means: Political Group Structure Moderates the Perceived Legitimacy of Intergroup Aggression

Discourses are mostly used by the elites as a means of controlling public discourse and hence, the public mind. In this way, they try to legitimate their ideology, values and norms in the society, which may result in social power abuse, dominance or inequality. The role of a critical discourse analyst is to understand and expose such abuses and inequalities. To this end, this paper is aimed at understanding and exposing the discursive construction of an anti-immigration Europe by the elites in the European Parliament (EP), through the example of Kristina Winberg, a member of the Sweden Democrats political party in Sweden and the political group of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy in the EP. In the theoretical and methodological framework, the premises and strategies of van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach of critical discourse analysis make it possible to achieve the aim of the paper.

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Top Management Team Group Structure as a Determinant of Company Performance: Empirical Evidence from Poland

Journal of Business and Economics ◽

10.15341/jbe(2155-7950)/05.06.2015/015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (5) ◽

pp. 996-1002

Author(s):

Małgorzata Marchewka

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Group Structure ◽

Top Management Team ◽

Management Team ◽

Top Management ◽

Company Performance

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A performative network theory of attitudes

10.31234/osf.io/mh4z8 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Quayle

Keyword(s):

Attitude Change ◽

Network Structure ◽

Network Theory ◽

Social Group ◽

Group Structure ◽

Social Identities ◽

Bipartite Network ◽

Identity Change ◽

Multilayer Network ◽

Dynamic Phenomena

In this paper I propose a network theory of attitudes where attitude agreements and disagreements forge a multilayer network structure that simultaneously binds people into groups (via attitudes) and attitudes into clusters (via people who share them). This theory proposes that people have a range of possible attitudes (like cards in a hand) but these only become meaningful when expressed (like a card played). Attitudes are expressed with sensitivity to their potential audiences and are socially performative: when we express attitudes, or respond to those expressed by others, we tell people who we are, what groups we might belong to and what to think of us. Agreement and disagreement can be modelled as a bipartite network that provides a psychological basis for perceived ingroup similarity and outgroup difference and, more abstractly, group identity. Opinion-based groups and group-related opinions are therefore co-emergent dynamic phenomena. Dynamic fixing occurs when particular attitudes become associated with specific social identities. The theory provides a framework for understanding identity ecosystems in which social group structure and attitudes are co-constituted. The theory describes how attitude change is also identity change. This has broad relevance across disciplines and applications concerned with social influence and attitude change.

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Estimation of Panel Group Structure Models with Structural Breaks in Group Memberships and Coefficients

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3617416 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Robin L. Lumsdaine ◽

Ryo Okui ◽

Wendun Wang

Keyword(s):

Structural Breaks ◽

Group Structure ◽

Group Memberships

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The Centralizer

10.1093/oso/9780198821656.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ercüment H. Ortaçgil

Keyword(s):

Lie Group ◽

Group Structure ◽

Diffeomorphism Group ◽

Group Diff ◽

Local Solutions

The pseudogroup of local solutions in Chapter 3 defines another pseudogroup by taking its centralizer inside the diffeomorphism group Diff(M) of a manifold M. These two pseudogroups define a Lie group structure on M.

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