Comparative Cultural Inequality and Undoing Differences Stefan Hirschauer

Comparative Cultural Inequality and Un/doing Differences Stefan Hirschauer

1. Starting point: un/doing gender

1. Starting point: un/doing gender • class–ification: the distribution of persons over categories

1. Starting point: un/doing gender • class–ification: the distribution of persons over categories • undoing gender: limiting and interrupting gender coding

2. Extensions: doing cultural distinctions

2. Extensions: doing cultural distinctions Mainz: comparitive studies in human categorization

2. Extensions: doing cultural distinctions Mainz: comparitive studies in human categorization Not ‚differences‘ and ‚kinds of people‘, but

2. Extensions: doing cultural distinctions Mainz: comparitive studies in human categorization Not ‚differences‘ and ‚kinds of people‘, but a) processes of differentiation

2. Extensions: doing cultural distinctions Mainz: comparitive studies in human categorization Not ‚differences‘ and ‚kinds of people‘, but a) processes of differentiation b) multiple memberships in competition

3. Cultural in/equality

3. Cultural in/equality • Social inequality: mathematics (≠) + normativity

3. Cultural in/equality • Social inequality: mathematics (≠) + normativity • Cultural in(e)quality: each categorisation creates equals and unequals

3. Cultural in/equality • Social inequality: mathematics (≠) + normativity • Cultural in(e)quality: each categorisation creates equals and unequals • unequal: a heterosocial relation

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human kinds as cultural species

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human kinds as cultural species Four points of contact:

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human kinds as cultural species Four points of contact: bodily invariants

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human kinds as cultural species Four points of contact: bodily invariants biographical anchors

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human kinds as cultural species Four points of contact: bodily invariants biographical trajectories biographical anchors

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human kinds as cultural species Four points of contact: bodily invariants biographical anchors biographical trajectories situative achievements

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human differentiation

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human differentiation distinction

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human differentiation distinction categorisation

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human differentiation distinction categorisation classification

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Specifics of human categorisation:

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Specifics of human categorisation: 1. humans participate in their categorisation

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Specifics of human categorisation: 1. humans participate in their categorisation 2. latent asymmetry by self-positioning in distinguishing

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Specifics of human categorisation: 1. humans participate in their categorisation 2. latent asymmetry by self-positioning in distinguishing a) differentiated own – totalised other

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Specifics of human categorisation: 1. humans participate in their categorisation 2. latent asymmetry by self-positioning in distinguishing a) differentiated own – totalised other b) normality of the own – marked deviance of the other

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human differentiation distinction categorisation classification alterisation

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human differentiation distinction categorisation classification alterisation asymmetric distinctions

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries asymmetric distinctions: la distinction,

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries asymmetric distinctions: la distinction, devaluation,

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries asymmetric distinctions: la distinction, devaluation, discrimination,

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries asymmetric distinctions: la distinction, devaluation, discrimination, stigmatisation

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human differentiation distinction categorisation classification alterisation asymmetric distinctions social boundaries

4. Human differentiation: Building Differences and Asymmetries Human differentiation distinction categorisation classification alterisation asymmetric distinctions social boundaries polarisation

5. Conclusion: Inclusion needs in–difference

5. Conclusion: Inclusion needs in–difference • ‚diversity‘ essentializes differentiation

5. Conclusion: Inclusion needs in–difference • ‚diversity‘ essentializes differentiation • ‚identity‘ reifies self-understandings

5. Conclusion: Inclusion needs in–difference • ‚diversity‘ essentializes differentiation • ‚identity‘ reifies self-understandings • the opposite of stigmatisation isn‘t recognition, but in–difference

Funktionale Differenzierung der Gesellschaft Soziale Differenzierung von Gesellungsformen Formen der Humandifferenzierung

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