Hermeneutics and Objective
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Wernet, Andreas

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“…Reconstructing them requires reconstructing the 'latent sense structures' or the 'objective meaning structures' of expressions. Analysing these 'hidden' meaning structures is the central aim of objective hermeneutics (Oevermann et al 1987;Wernet 2013). Unlike different types of content analysis, this approach does not focus on the information content of a text (e.g.…”

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Identity, ethnic boundaries, and collective victimhood: analysing strategies of self-victimisation in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Mijić

2020

Identities

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Characteristics from the social construction of 'self' and of 'others' in Bosnia-Herzegovina show that the creation of a positive self-image in this postwar society is strongly connected with collective self-victimisation of one's own ingroup. An objective hermeneutical analysis of narrative interviews conducted with Bosniaks, Bosnian Croats, and Bosnian Serbs reveals five self-victimisation strategies: Two dissociative strategies, which conspicuously reproduce the dichotomy of victim and perpetrator along ethnic lines and candidly reinforce the ethnic boundariesmoral alchemy and double relativisationand three strategies, which seem to transcend the boundaries between ethnic in-group and out-groupthe associative strategies of subjectification of war, the externalisation of responsibility, and silence. A subsequent contextualisation of the identified strategies indicates, however, that, ultimately, associative strategies are equally conducive to the further manifestation of ethnic boundaries.

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Identity, ethnic boundaries, and collective victimhood: analysing strategies of self-victimisation in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Mijić

2020

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“…Furthermore, this approach does not ask about the speaker’s intention, but rather for the ‘objective’ meaning of the text. The key strength of the objective hermeneutics approach is its capacity to uncover this ‘how’ – the structures or ‘strategies’ for coping with specific challenges that people usually deploy unconsciously and that therefore cannot be ascertained simply through direct questions (Oevermann et al., 1987; Wernet, 2013).…”

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Together divided–divided together: Intersections of symbolic boundaries in the context of ex-Yugoslavian immigrant communities in Vienna

Mijić

2019

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The inspiration for the following research arose from an identified ambivalence regarding the question of how relevant ethnic belonging – being Bosniak, being Croat, being Serb – is in everyday life of ex-Yugoslavian Viennese people. A qualitative analysis of narrative interviews as well as participant observations on Vienna’s Ottakringer Straße, a neighbourhood highly frequented by immigrants from the former Yugoslavia and their descendants, indicates that ethnicity indeed matters, particularly when it comes to questions of partner choice. The research, however, also reveals that there are further, intersecting boundaries encompassing or dividing the ‘ex-Yugoslavian community’: In light of being othered by the Austrian majority society and defined as ‘incomplete self’ Maria Todorova, i.e. as representatives of a sphere between the own and the foreign, educationally alienated young adults across ethnic boundaries notably celebrate the culture of ‘turbo folk’ on Ottakringer Straße – a lifestyle that emphasises their own ‘glamour and passion’ as opposed to Austrian ‘bleakness’. Therewith they reinforce the image of the ‘Balkan Other’. Simultaneously, ‘ex-Yugoslavian’ Viennese with higher education levels exhibit a substantial need to not only distinguish themselves from turbo folk and (night-)life on Ottakringer Straße, but also from the image of the ‘Balkan Other’. By emphasising their own ‘more sophisticated’ taste, they express their social position in terms of a specific lifestyle and set themselves apart from the ‘uneducated and common immigrants’. Hence, the analysis shows that, with regard to the ‘ex-Yugoslavian communities’ in Vienna, different symbolic boundaries are at work: the ethnic boundaries – (re-)constructed and (re-)enforced by the wars in the former Yugoslavia – the ‘Balkanised’ symbolic boundaries between ex-Yugoslavian minorities and the Austrian majority as well as the milieu-specific symbolic boundaries within the community itself.

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“…Basic Methodological Assumptions In objective hermeneutics it is assumed that the traces and protocols left by the practice of life have an expressive character (Zizek, 2012a;Wernet, 2014). This means that the expressions and actions of the life practice reflect the attitudes of the respective individuals.…”

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Analysis of Youth-Oriented Websites

Zizek

Andermann

2020

Beijing Int. Rev. Educ.

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The following paper is an introduction to the image-analytical methods of objective hermeneutics based on an exemplary analysis of a youth-oriented website. In a methodological sketch, the constitutional and fundamental methodological assumptions, procedures and principles are first explained and substantiated. These will then be carried out using the example of an analysis of the mtv website "A Thin Line" in order to illustrate their practical implementation and to enable self-study.

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Hermeneutics and Objective Hermeneutics

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Identity, ethnic boundaries, and collective victimhood: analysing strategies of self-victimisation in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Identity, ethnic boundaries, and collective victimhood: analysing strategies of self-victimisation in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Together divided–divided together: Intersections of symbolic boundaries in the context of ex-Yugoslavian immigrant communities in Vienna

Analysis of Youth-Oriented Websites

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