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INFERIORIZATION
Sociologyindex, Sociology Books 2012
Inferiorization refers to the process of imposing a stigmatized or inferiorized identity on a group of people.
The people stigmatized tend to adopt a sense of
inferiority that leads to a sapping of confidence and ability, inhibits political
organization and results in a host of personal and collective social problems.
The inferiorization concept can be linked to the theory
of a ‘culture of poverty’.
Inferiorization and "Self-Esteem" Adam,
Barry D., Social Psychology, 41, 1, 47-53, Mar 78
Abstract: In this century, the concept of the self-esteem of subordinated groups was
transformed from its original orientation toward coping strategies to inferiorization; to
a psychological construct of the personalities of subordinated people; and to a rejection
of any view which could move into the perspective of blaming the victim. - eric.ed.gov
Non-persone. L’esclusione dei migranti in una società globale, Dal Lago
Alessandro
Publisher: Feltrinelli, Milano, Year of publication: 1999
Abstract: The book is a well-documented, polemical and im-passioneted essay about the
transformation undergoes about the immigrants from a status of “strangers” to
the status of “social enemies”, trough the double spiral of panic and social
exclusion. The book deeply analyses the substantial convergence of the italian political
right and lefton the making of the cultural and psychological attitude of
“inferiorization” of the immigrants; this attitude runs the risk of generate
some kind of “cultural racism”. - ais-sociologia.it/opere/Teoriesociologiche.pdf
The Survival of Domination: Inferiorization and Everyday Life - Barry D. Adam.
Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 8, No. 3 (May, 1979), p. 465
"There is continuity between the operation of the labour
markets thanks to the inferiorization of exogenous work and the constitution of minorities
on the civic and political level. The rule of passage from the one to the other is as
follows: the stronger the institutional and legal inferiorization will have been in the
first operational mode, the more probabilities that there will be a blossoming of systems.
How should one understand this gradation in the legal inferiorization? It will be said for
example that the system of slavery that ended by molding the structure of the family
according to the right of ownership of children is more inferiorizing than the European
system of migrations of permanent labor; that the American system of migration of
definitive installation (of settlement) is lighter than the two precedents; or that of the
South-African system before its very recent dismantling was stronger than its three
precedents and less extremely so than the first)." - Lowe Laclau lowe.laclau at
gmail.com
"Afrikan genetic potential is destroyed and profoundly influences the whole life
experience of every Afrikan person when the introduction of the
"inferiorization" process is present. Inferiorization is the conscious,
deliberate and systematic process utilized specifically by a
racist (white supremacy) social system, is conducted through all of its major and minor
institutions (including the institution of marriage/family, education, government,
shelter, food, clothing, health care etc.) which molds Afrikan people within that system
(namely, all of us classified by the racist system) into "functional inferiors,"
in spite of our true genetic potential of functioning. Simply put, inferiorization is the
brainwashing process that We as Afrikans in the Diaspora use as our learned behavior and
thinking process. This brainwashing in ingrained in the very fabric of every life
sustaining institution that effects the Afrikan person's life that the Afrikan person does
NOT control.
With inferiorization defined, what is the genetic potential that is destroyed by this
process? How do the various institutions of the infrastructure contribute to this
destruction? Who benefits from such a deliberate and systematic attack? How is this
benefit manifested?" - Mama Khandi, khandi.kickinthedoorprod.com
"This methodical disenfranchisement is a basis for violence in the Black community.
This foundation of aggression, referred to as the “Inferiorization Process” is
described by William Oliver as:
the systematic stress attack involving the entire complex of political, legal,
educational, economic, religious, military, and mass media institutions controlled by
Whites; designed to produce dysfunctional patterns of behavior among Blacks in all areas
of life. Through the inferiorization process, Blacks are socialized to be incapable of
solving or helping to produce solutions to problems posed by the environment. However, for
Whites, the inferiorization process is designed to facilitate their development as
functional superiors. Thus, under the system of White supremacy, Whites are conditioned to
solve or help to provide solutions to problems posed by the environment…As a result
of their exposure…a substantial number of Black males have opted to re-define manhood
in terms of toughness, sexual conquest, and thrill seeking.” [William Oliver, Black
Males and Social Problems: Prevention Through Afrocentric Socialization, Journal of Black
Studies (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc. 1989), 15-39.]
Cosmetic Surgery in a Different Voice: The Case of Madame Noël - by Kathy
Davis
Abstract: Cosmetic surgery emerged at the end of the 19th century in the U.S. and Europe.
Like most branches of surgery, it is a 'masculine' medical specialty, both numerically and
in terms of professional 'ethos'. Given the role cosmetic surgery - and, more generally,
the feminine beauty system - play in the disciplining and inferiorization of women's
bodies, a feminist cosmetic surgeon would seem to be a contradiction in terms. It is hard
to imagine how cosmetic surgery might be practiced in a way which is not, by definition,
disempowering or demeaning to women. In this paper, I explore the unlikely combination of
feminist cosmetic surgeon, using one of the pioneers of cosmetic surgery, Dr.Suzanne
Noël, as an example. She was the first and most famous woman to practice cosmetic
surgery, working in France at the beginning of this century. She was also an active
feminist. Based on an analysis of the handbook she wrote in 1926, La Chirurgie
Esthétique, Son Rôle Social in which she describes her views about her profession, her
techniques and procedures, and the results of her operations, I tackle the question of
whether Noël's approach might be regarded as a 'feminine' or even feminist way of doing
cosmetic surgery - in short, an instance of surgery in 'a different voice'. -
let.uu.nl/~Kathy.Davis/personal/cosmetic_surgery.html
UNEMPLOYMENT AS A DRAMATURGICAL PROBLEM: TEACHING IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT IN A WORK
INCENTIVE PROGRAM
Gale Miller, Marquette University
Abstract: This article is an analysis of aspects of everyday life in a Work Incentive
Program (WIN). It is intended to apply and extend Adam's (1978) political phenomenology of
domination by analyzing inferiorization as a feature of contemporary human service work.
The analysis focuses on dramaturgical instruction of unemployed welfare recipients as a
process of inferiorization through which clients are cast as disadvantaged in their
dealings with area employers. Clients were taught to strategically manipulate impressions
of self in order to positively impress area employers and get jobs. The analysis addresses
five primary questions: (1) How is the dramaturgical perspective organized as an ideology
of inferiorization in WIN and other human service organizations; (2) What was the context
within which dramaturgical instruction was defined by the WIN staff as a legitimate
response to their clients' problems; (3) What were the assumptions and claims associated
with the staff's dramaturgical framing of unemployment; (4) How was the dramaturgical
frame used by the staff to identify concrete rules for proper job-seeking: and (5) How did
the staff legitimate the perspective and rules associated with it in their interactions
with clients? - blackwell-synergy.com
"‘Sexism’, as a term, has gained increasing currency, as ‘male
chauvinism’ (as a term) has somewhat declined. The concept is a clear analogy with
‘racism’ and indicates the inferiorization (attitudinal and actual) of one sex
by the other." - Juliet Mitchell
Black immigrants in Portugal: Luso-tropicalism and prejudice, Jorge Vala &
Diniz Lopes
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology,
Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisboa -
ics.ul.pt/corpocientifico/jorgevala/pdf/vala-lopes-lima_jsi.pdf
Extract: "In fact, democratic societies abandoned the explanations based on racial
differences and replaced them by cultural differences, i.e., racial inferiorization was
substituted by cultural inferiorization. However, we put forward the hypothesis that
nowadays it is not only no longer socially acceptable the idea of racial inferiorization
but also, although to a lesser extent, the idea of cultural inferiorization.... the
expression of cultural inferiority of “another” is not voiced today in an overt
way, but rather in a covert way. "perception of cultural differences hides a process
of inferiorization since it correlates with racialization, discrimination and negative
evaluation of “black”." "Our findings also contradict the contentions
of Coenders, Scheepers, Sniderman, and Verberk (2001). Re-analysing in part the data used
by Pettigrew and Meertens (1995, 2001), these authors maintain that general prejudice
(explicit cultural inferiorization and explicit racial inferiorization) is independent of
the “perception of cultural differences”." "If the results of this new
study show that the perception of being seen as different is associated with
discrimination, then we have new evidence that the attribution of differences is not a
simple process of group description but a process of implicit group
inferiorization."people.
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