Pdf the otherness of social work under neoliberal governance. Social action can be oriented to the past, present or expected future of ones behavior 1978. In the theory proposed by berger and luckmann 1999, the concept of otherness is a social construct, being subject to the forces implied in the sociology of knowledge. This volume presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of otherness in seven european countries. The book contributes to the contemporary epistemological and ethical debate about the question of otherness, and would be of interest to educationalists. The struggle for social equality and animal rights are not mutually exclusive, but you prefer to position your biases this way. Otherness and identity in the victorian novel much recent journalism to the contrary, migrations, diasporas, and even globalization are not phenomena originating in the postcolonial, postindustrial, postcold war period of our own day crossette. Referring to habermas classic theory, i argue that the basis for opening the borders of otherness is to recognise that differences exist between the functional system of social work and the. Otherness definition of otherness by merriamwebster.
This comparison has been used to deny the humanity of racial minorities. How biology became social, and what it means for social theory. However, the experience of otherness can be divided into two separate but interrelated components. It was also determined that the severity of otherness experiences was shaped by the contexts of phenotype, sociogeographic location, and. Cosmopolitanism, sociology and the otherness of the other. Download pdf entangledotherness free online new books.
Miroslav volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. In this introductory chapter i present some of the most relevant contributions of social theory to the understanding of the emergence of the self and its relation to. Typically, the proponents of the theory examine the ways in which writers from. The significant issue here is less the phenomena in themselves than their eruption into public space, and the consequences for french selfperception and for french peoples relationship to otherness. Social imaginary is also underpinned by a dialectic between self and otherness, which can be understood through the concept of narrative identity. Theories, models and perspectives cheat sheet for field instructors major theories used in social work practice systems theory. Ottherrnneesss cullttuurraall nmmaarrggiinnalliizzaattiioon aanndd ddeevvaalluuaattiioonn other and otherness are technical terms used in the social sciences and humanities for the way people tend to view others people or nature that are dissimilar and separated.
The proper characters can be distinguished by their difference from the. In order for it to justify the otherness of man, darwins theory needs. Otherness definition is the quality or state of being other or different. The conflict theory is a macrolevel theory designed to study the larger social, national, regional, or global levels of sociological phenomena. Jamesons rhetoric of otherness and the national allegory european languages creates very fulsome circuits for the circulation of texts, so that even a us scholar who does not command much beyond english can be quite well grounded in the various metropolitan traditions. Othering, an analysis lajos brons i understand now that nothing but otherness killed jews, and it began with naming them, by reducing them to the other. Otherness in hispanic culture download ebook pdf, epub.
Using a social space approach to analyse the social structuring of lifestyles. Some feminist theory provides an analytic framework for understanding how womens location in and experience of social situations differ from mens. Even the worst atrocities like concentration camps or the slaughtering of civilians in croatia or bosnia. Other and otherness are technical terms used in the social sciences and humanities for the way. Marx was a witness to oppression perpetrated by societys elite members against the masses of poor. Media and social representations of otherness springerlink. The book reveals how social theory can illuminate many contemporary issues in theology, whilst the examination of theological methods can shed light on problematic issues in sociology. Download citation otherness in social theory in this introductory chapter i present some of the most relevant contributions of social theory to the.
This book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of otherness in seven european countries. The otherness of social work under neoliberal governance. Although othering is a theme in continental philosophy, critical theory, and fields of. I therefore think it important to provisionally, but clearly, distinguish between hybridity as a theoretical concept and a political stance that we can argue, and hybridity as a social reality with historical specificity. As a social psychological phenomenon, this hostility has often been understood either as a decontextualized fear of otherness, or as a form of prejudice against an outgroup somewhat confounded with racism. Advancing otherness and othering of the cultural other. Media and social representations of otherness psycho.
Jamesons rhetoric of otherness and the national allegory. Auguste comte coined the term sucioi0 gie in france in the 1840s, but sociology too did not gain widespread currency as a term. As we will see in what follows, social thought, although always concerned with the other, has failed to theorize radical otherness. Rush, autumn grubbswetnam, and christina lane the focus of this chapter is the ways in which communication theory and method can provide a richer, more complex and enlightening canvas of. The study of the controlling power of representation in colonized societies began in the 1950s with the work of frantz fanon and reached a climax in the late 1970s with edward saids orientalism. Otherness is the condition or quality of being different or other, particularly if the differences in question are strange, bizarre, or exotic. No such term exists in english or in any other language before the twentieth centuryi and even io the twentieth century it is not common before about the 1940s.
This project has taken me two years from start to finish, with a lot of heart ache and bumps along the way. The discussion of issues in radical otherness moves from the personal to the political, to the hermeneutic, to the ultimate otherness of metaphysics. Ive cited bauman, who notes that animal is the other of man. Othering, identity formation and agency sune qvotrup. Otherness has emerged as a widely discussed mental construct of pragmatic significance in the humanities and social sciences over. Therefore, the condition of otherness is a persons nonconformity to and with the social norms of society. Stereotypes and prejudice in the perception of the other. Essays on otherness presents for the first time in english many of laplanches key essays and is the first book to provide an overview of his thinking. Referring to habermas classic theory, i argue that the basis for opening the borders of otherness is to recognise that differences exist between the functional system of social work and the life world lebenswelt of citizens. For example, cultural feminists look at the different values associated with womanhood and femininity as a reason for why men and women experience the social world differently. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil.
In keeping with the theoretical premises of the overall research project on. For the two authors the daily life reality is a construed reality, a reality interpreted by people, which for them has got subjective meaning and shows them a coherent world. Jean laplanche essays on otherness world of digitals. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.
Payne 1997 argues that social work theory succeeds best when it contains all three elements of perspective, theory and model. In spite of the influence of his work over the last thirty years, remarkably little has been available in english. I focus in particular on three areas of investigation. An introduction to postcolonialism, postcolonial theory and. The construction of the other in saids orientalism and fanons black skin white masks. Since the death of jacques lacan, jean laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers. It focuses on the analysis of press discourses produced over a fifteenyear period 20002015 on three contemporary figures of otherness. Download pdf show page numbers in the social sciences, grand theory refers to those efforts devoted to abstract, analytical theory building. Postcolonial theory became part of the critical toolbox in the 1970s, and many practitioners credit edward saids book orientalism as being the founding work. Population transfer, at least, was already a prominent feature of the post. This resource is split into five pages, for the purposes of improving reading experience. In this introductory chapter i present some of the most relevant contributions of social theory to the understanding of the emergence of the self and its relation to the other. Such themes have been increasingly both in psychoanalytic thought and in continental philosophy, social and cultural theory, and literature making essays on otherness indispensable reading for all those concerned with the implications of psychoanalytic theory today.
Inglis, d 20 cosmopolitanisms sociology and the sociologys cosmopolitanism. Issues of social representation, communication, dialogical self, and human subjectivity are represented in this book. The theory is based around concepts of otherness and resistance. Scholars who work with structuralist, poststructuralist, feminist, marxist, and other methodologies which depend on binary oppositions often look for works in which characters are created by invoking some rhetoric of otherness. Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Identity, otherness and their postmodern ethical discourse 33 choosing to degenerate by displaying a preference for more egoistical forms of authenticity such as hedonism, anthropocentrism and social atomism, or to raise their level by electing superior forms of freedom such as social action, political changes and solidarity. Entangled otherness thus makes a unique and timely contribution to the growing body of knowledge and debate in the areas of gender, sexuality and the body in caribbean studies.
Otherness is a concept describing social relations and social stratification. Yet, the more recent forms of enmity against immigrants. The other sociologist sociology of difference by zuleyka. Postcolonial theory ashcroft major reference works. Theories, models and perspectives cheat sheet for field. The meaning of theory as a term of art, kocial theory is a distinctly recent invention. How biology became social, and what it means for social theory maurizio meloni abstract in this paper i.