Discourse objectivization, social variation and style of Spanish second-person singular tú

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
María José Serrano ◽  
Miguel Ángel Aijón Oliva
Keyword(s):  
Social Identities ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Professional Affiliation ◽  
Social Variation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Subject Pronoun ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This investigation aims to uncover the variation of the Spanish second-person singular subject pronoun tú ‘you.sg’ when it displaces its content away from the particular circumstances of the speaker and changes its deictic meaning to a resource for the objectivization of the utterance. The multiple repercussions of the formal variation (expression and omission) of this subject on internal and external levels of meaning will be explored. Essential to understanding this case of variation is the consideration of prominent features of the communicative situation, as well as the social identities and roles assumed by the speakers within it (including professional affiliation, transactional vs. interpersonal communicative stance and gender). The results of the analysis allow us to sketch basic interactional and discursive tendencies governing objectivizing uses of the second-person singular tú along the oral-written continuum

Gendered Understanding of Disability and Aging

2018 ◽  
pp. 241-253
Author(s):  
Vaijayanti Bezbaruah ◽  
Nilika Mehrotra
Keyword(s):  
Medical Model ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
North India ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Science Discourse ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
And Gender

In its early conventional sense, disability was largely understood in bio-medical model which subsequently was supplemented with the psycho-social underpinnings of disability. In recent times, the social identities in terms of race, religion, class, caste, and gender add other dimensions to the social science discourse on disability studies. The chapter attempts to inform through the dimensions of age and aging in relation to the disability discourse, drawing from ethnographic cases over a period of research in North India. In the process, this chapter offers an analysis of disability and aging with focusing on the lack of access to social and familial resources for people with disability who are old and people who acquire any kind of disability in their old age. This chapter examines uncertainties experienced by the older disabled and the disabled older persons in relation to the extent of family ties and other social resources in both the rural and urban context.

scholarly journals ‘Men fall like boiled eggs. Women fall like raw eggs.’ Civilised female bodies and gender relations in British National Hunt racing

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippa Velija ◽  
Lucinda Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Equestrian Sports ◽  
The Social ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk

This purpose of this article is to contribute to the existing research on the gendered nature of equestrian sports by discussing how power relations continue to position females on the margins of National Hunt (NH) racing. In the UK, NH racing is the most male-dominated form of racing; at the time of writing, 100 males hold a professional jockey licence, compared to just 4 females. In this article we draw on figurational sociology, specifically the concepts of the civilised body, interdependence and habitus to offer a critical analysis of the gendered experiences of eight amateur and professional female jockeys. The experiences of female jockeys cannot be understood without considering their networks of interdependencies with trainers, owners, male jockeys, breeders and the wider racing industry. We argue that early involvement in the figuration through family ties supports the development of a gendered racing habitus that influences the social identities of female jockeys who normalise their own limitations. Civilised female bodies are positioned in the figuration as weaker than males and needing protection from potentially risky horses. We argue that because safe horses are chosen by trainers and owners, these limit the opportunities and number of rides for female jockeys, these (gendered) decisions obscure issues of power that enable male jockeys to dominate in the NH figuration.

Gendered Understanding of Disability and Aging

2022 ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
Vaijayanti Bezbaruah ◽  
Nilika Mehrotra
Keyword(s):  
Medical Model ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
North India ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Science Discourse ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
And Gender

In its early conventional sense, disability was largely understood in bio-medical model which subsequently was supplemented with the psycho-social underpinnings of disability. In recent times, the social identities in terms of race, religion, class, caste, and gender add other dimensions to the social science discourse on disability studies. The chapter attempts to inform through the dimensions of age and aging in relation to the disability discourse, drawing from ethnographic cases over a period of research in North India. In the process, this chapter offers an analysis of disability and aging with focusing on the lack of access to social and familial resources for people with disability who are old and people who acquire any kind of disability in their old age. This chapter examines uncertainties experienced by the older disabled and the disabled older persons in relation to the extent of family ties and other social resources in both the rural and urban context.

scholarly journals Intersectionality, British criminology and race: Are we there yet?

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alpa Parmar
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religion And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Missed Opportunity

Intersectionality is the study of overlapping social identities and related systems of oppression, discrimination and domination. From an intersectional perspective, aspects of a person’s identity, for example race, class and gender are understood to be enmeshed. To understand how systemic injustice operates and is produced, a multi-dimensional framework which captures how forms of oppression intersect and are shaped by one another, is necessary. Although the merits of an intersectional approach in criminology have been widely shown and discussed in US scholarship, within British criminology, there have been few analyses that have implemented an intersectional lens – either explicitly or implicitly. Correspondingly, close examination of the social construction of race within the criminal justice system has been largely absent in British criminology. In the following paper, I suggest that these two developments are co-constitutive – that British criminology’s unwillingness to engage with race has resulted in the reticence towards an intersectional approach and vice versa. This is both problematic and a missed opportunity. At a time when much criminological research convenes around the intersection of race, class, religion and gender, the absence of intersectional approaches and the lack of discussion about the racializing consequences of the criminal justice system serve to stymie meaningful debate and advancement of the field.

"Vordergründig war ich für die gar nicht frau": Zur sprachlichen Repräsentation von Geschlecht

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Fetzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Identities ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
German Language ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
Validity Claim ◽  
The Social ◽  
Validity Claims ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
Linguistic Means

This contribution argues for an investigation of gender in an interactive multicausal framework with multiple social identities. Depending on the participants' communicative goals, these social identities are highlighted or attributed to the background. Part I analyses the linguistic means the German language offers for the linguistic representation of gender and occupation and illustrates how these means are employed to reconstruct the corresponding identities. In German, speakers can represent their gender identity explicitly by (1) gender-specific lexical items and gender-specific collocations, and (2) adding the gender-specific morpheme -in to occupation. Part II adapts the results obtained to a discursive frame of reference based on the communication act plus/minus-validity claim, i.e. speakers postulating validity claims which are ratified by hearers. Thus, coparticipants negotiate the communicative status of validity claims. Interlocutors have a dual function: firstly, they represent the discourse-inherent category of discourse identity, and secondly, the discourse-creating category of coparticipant. Here, the social indexes of gender and occupation represent valdity claims and therefore require ratification. If they are accepted they are assigned a presuppositional status and do not have to be made explicit any longer. If they are rejected they initiate a negotiation-of-validity sequence. For this reason, the explication of social indexes at a later stage in discourse indicates that the corresponding communicative status is at stake.

scholarly journals Stil som social identitetsmarkør - en flerperspektivistisk tilgang til unges stil

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christel Stormhøj
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Identification With School ◽  
Significant Factors

Christel Stormhøj: Style as a marker of social identity – a multi-perspective approach to young people’s style. This article analyses the relations between social identities and style among youth in contemporary Danish society. It deals with the social sources and functions of style. It is based on a study of young men and women from two social classes: working class youths and youth from academic families (middle and upper-middle class). While social class and gender are basic positional factors in the taste patterns of the young people to a certain extent, there are other significant factors. Among the important generative forces are individual choice, age, and identification with school culture and with different kinds of sub- and micro-cultures. Young people employ style in different ways: as a status marker, as a instrument of resistance, as a way of expressing autonomy, in positioning themselves in relation to others and in developing social groups. Because of this plurality of sources to style and taste, it is necessary to employ a “multi-perspective“ in this kind of research.

scholarly journals Postmortem Identity Work in Territorial-colonialist Alaska

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-203
Author(s):  
Sine Anahita
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Dead ◽  
And Gender ◽  
State Library ◽  
Historical Photographs ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical ideas about impression management are applied to analyze four historical photographs of deceased children. The photographs are archived at the Alaska State Library and were taken during Alaska’s territorial-colonialist era. This article explains how living photographic subjects, who are often unseen but are symbolized through items visible in the photograph, work with viewers to co-construct social identities of themselves and of the dead children in the photographs. I propose that participants—the seen and unseen subjects, the photographer, and the receiving audience—engage in what Goffman calls frontstage and backstage work to co-construct social identities for the dead children and for the living survivors and to manage the impressions given by the visual images. Further, I propose that the social identities portrayed in the photographs were shaped by social forces and symbol systems external to the persons and settings visible in the images. This article demonstrates that the social systems of family, religion, ethnicity, and gender are especially powerful in co-constructing the symbolic social identities of the participants in the photographs under study. Other issues considered are the social systems of racism, ethnocentrism, and assimilationist policies that targeted Native and immigrant peoples.

Understanding attributes of social identities as a function of race and gender

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isis H. Settles ◽  
William A. Jellison ◽  
Joan R. Poulsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Identities ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

PAR Method

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Billies
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

The work of the Welfare Warriors Research Collaborative (WWRC), a participatory action research (PAR) project that looks at how low income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming (LG-BTGNC) people survive and resist violence and discrimination in New York City, raises the question of what it means to make conscientization, or critical consciousness, a core feature of PAR. Guishard's (2009) reconceptualization of conscientization as “moments of consciousness” provides a new way of looking at what seemed to be missing from WWRC's process and analysis. According to Guishard, rather than a singular awakening, critical consciousness emerges continually through interactions with others and the social context. Analysis of the WWRC's process demonstrates that PAR researchers doing “PAR deep” (Fine, 2008)—research in which community members share in all aspects of design, method, analysis and product development—should have an agenda for developing critical consciousness, just as they would have agendas for participation, for action, and for research.

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