Prejudice, categorization and particularization: From a perceptual to a rhetorical approach

Billig, Michael

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“…For example, a rhetorical move can have a range of rhetorical counter moves. In an argument about race, a categorization, say, can be countered by particularization (Billig, 1985); or in a relationship counselling dispute a man criticised for pathological jealousy may turn the negative potential of that description around and argue that his partner is insensitive to his jealousy problem (Edwards, 1995).…”

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Discursive Social Psychology: From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

Potter

1998

European Review of Social Psychology

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This chapter reviews the major theoretical and methodological features of discursive social psychology, and illustrates the scope and nature of this approach through showing the way it can respecify the social psychology of attitudes. It reviews discourse research on attitude variability; it describes conversation analytic studies on the way evaluations are managed in interaction and shows how our understanding of political oratory can be improved; it discusses the way evaluations are bound up with broader, culturally defined, systems of discourse; it discusses the relation between assessments and factual accounts; and finally it shows how a discursive approach can rework notions of function, consistency, vested interest, and emotion.The aim of this chapter is to introduce a discursive approach to social psychology to people who are more familiar with the mainstream experimental social cognition tradition.After making some preliminary remarks about the history, aims and theory of discursive social psychology I will focus on what would traditionally be called the social psychology of attitudes. This topic has the virtue of being at the heart of social psychology for much of the century, and thus provides a familiar startpoint for anyone wishing to understand what is distinctive about the discursive approach, and how radical its respecification of traditional notions will be.

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Discursive Social Psychology: From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

Potter

1998

European Review of Social Psychology

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153

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“…This second analysis aimed at exploring the rhetorical mechanisms and functions of the discourses (Billig 1997;1985) that constituted the themes identified through the thematic analysis, based on the assumption that discourses do not provide just a factual description of the situation or object, but are used instead to present the issue in particular ways. Discourses are made through formulations that cannot be captured only by its underlying semantic meaning as they have a certain inexplicit intentionality (Cronick 2002), critical to understand the motivations behind certain sentences and what they try to achieve.…”

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Making energy visible: sociopsychological aspects associated with the use of smart meters

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Abstract:This study aims to improve the understanding of the socio-psychological and technological aspects that influence the use of smart meters -innovative electricity meters that provide real-time data on consumption and are instrumental in increasing energy efficiency. Few studies have examined the socio-psychological factors that influence their use. We argue that the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and other specific factors from the social psychology literature, such as perceived procedural justice and risk perception, can help understand what determines the use of smart meters. To empirically examine that, first a quantitative survey was conducted with 515 households with smart meters installed. Results indicate that smart meter use is influenced by subjective norms, perceived utility, health-related risk perception, procedural justice and time of usage. In a second study, internet blogs discussing smart meters were analyzed. This study corroborated some of the results of the first study and suggested additional factorssuch as perceived distributive injustice and loss of control and privacy-related risk perception -that may influence the use of smart meters. Results indicate that smart meter use is influenced by subjective norms, perceived utility, health-related risk perception, procedural justice and time of usage. In a second study, internet blogs discussing smart meters were analyzed. This study corroborated some of the results of the first study and suggested additional factors -such as perceived distributive injustice and loss of control and privacy-related risk perception -that may influence the use of smart meters.

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“…Conversely, it has long been known that inter-group contact can lead to reduction in prejudice (Allport, 1979), and more recently that contact contributes to allowing the Other multiple identities (Brown & Hewstone, 2005) and to increased perception of outgroup variability (Swart, Hewstone, Christ, & Voci, 2010). Increasing the complexity of the Other is a kind of 'particularization', contrasted by Billig with categorization (Billig, 1985(Billig, , 1996.…”

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The dialogic construction of self and other in response to terrorism.

Cameron¹,

Maslen²,

Todd³

2013

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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and on a bus. It was not just the violence and death that shocked people in UK, but the fact that the young men, the first suicide bombers in UK, were British, three of them born and brought up in a long-established Muslim community. After this event (which became known as 7/7), government and community leaders worked hard to prevent a violent backlash in Muslim communities in UK, and were, by and large, successful. However, the event caused much social and personal disruption, shifting notions of both Self and Other.The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of that disruption on people's personal and social landscapes through an applied linguistic study of talk in focus groups. If, as a society, we can better understand how people and groups respond to an ongoing threat of terrorist attack, we should be better able to offer support towards resilience and protection against fragility.The study forms part of a larger project investigating the dynamics of empathy in dialogue in times of uncertainty. 1 Empathy concerns how one person (the Self) emotionally and cognitively responds to another, how they understand how it is to be 'the Other'. 2 In this study, where focus groups discuss the risk of terrorism and its effects on their everyday lives, we attend to one particular aspect of empathy in dialogue: how the Other is dialogically constructed in relation to the Self. By tracing patterns of stabilization and variability in dialogic construction of Self and Other, post 7/7 and 9/11, the study aims to understand the impact of increased uncertainty on people's emotions, and on the voices and positions that people construct for themselves and for others.The study is innovative in applying a complex dynamic systems view of society, culture, cognition and discourse which allows researchers to attend to interdependencies of affective, cognitive and social factors in people's lives. This approach highlights the fluidity of constructions CONSTRUCTION OF SELF AND OTHER AFTER TERRORISM 1 of Self and Other as voiced in people's accounts, and how people move in and out of multiple social identities.

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Prejudice, categorization and particularization: From a perceptual to a rhetorical approach

Cited by 312 publications

References 26 publications

Discursive Social Psychology: From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

Discursive Social Psychology: From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

Making energy visible: sociopsychological aspects associated with the use of smart meters

The dialogic construction of self and other in response to terrorism.

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