Degradation, Accreditation, and Rites of Passage

Schwartz, Wynn

doi:10.1080/00332747.1979.11024017

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“…Moral indignation consequently gives birth to a degradation ceremony. The nature of the degradation ceremony, according to Garfinkel (1956) and Schwartz (1979), entails making visible the true nature of the public character that is engaged in corrupt actions. In other words, the ceremony of degradation seeks to prove that the public character has not changed from being honest to being corrupt all of a sudden; rather, that he or she has always been a corrupt individual (Garfinkel, 1956: 423).…”

Section: Shitstorm On the Web: The Discourse Construction Of The Co-pmentioning

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The construction of anger in comments on the public behavior of members of the social elite in Chile

Arancibia

Montecino

2017

Discourse & Society

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Digital media is a platform of immediate presence that rests on a demediatized communication. It favors virtual collective action that allows digital citizens, in contexts of accentuated social inequality, to construe themselves as anti-establishment. Our research explores the co-participative construction of an online shitstorm, in comments posted on websites generated to respond to power abuse and inequity in Chilean society. The construction of citizens' anger in digital discourse will be analyzed in light of the postulates of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and in the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The corpus analyzed consists of 500 comments issued between April and July 2016 to contest a powerful Chilean businessman who uploads a video to YouTube to defend himself from the public verbal attacks of a congressman. The results of the analysis show representations related to corruption, power abuse and inequity from people who conceal in the economic power they have to assert they are ordinary citizens.

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Section: Shitstorm On the Web: The Discourse Construction Of The Co-pmentioning

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The construction of anger in comments on the public behavior of members of the social elite in Chile

Arancibia

Montecino

2017

Discourse & Society

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“…By this term, we mean that his actions have the effect of confirming them in new positions or "statuses" that carry with them expanded eligibility for full participation in society. We choose the term "accreditation" because of the parallel between this sort of relationship and certain formal "accreditation ceremonies" (Garfinkel, 1957;Ossorio, 1976Ossorio, , 1978Ossorio, , 1982Schwartz, 1979) such as investiture of a person into office, clerical ordination, or conferral of a professional degree. The essence of such ceremonies is that one person engages in actions that have the effect of confirming a second person in a new community position which conveys expanded eligibilities to engage in community practices.…”

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“…"Status" means "position in relation to." The totality of a person's statuses is simply the totality of that person's positions in relation to everything, including himself or herself (Ossorio, 1976(Ossorio, , 1982Schwartz, 1979). For example, John Smith may be father to his child, teacher to his pupils, adherent to his faith, rejecter of himself, and envier of Jones's good fortune.…”

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“…Second, the therapist may act from this position to accredit the client as one who can also disqualify society in its unreasonable status-assigning practices. To pursue the same example, when the therapist negotiates with the incest survivor the reasonableness of regarding herself as a discredited person, the therapist treats her as someone who is herself eligible to undermine unreasonable cultural status assignments (Schwartz, 1979).…”

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The positive therapeutic relationship as accreditation.

Bergner¹,

Staggs²

1987

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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“…The term "status" as employed in this article means position-in-relationto. The totality of a person's statuses is simply the totality of that person's positions in relation to everything, including himself or herself (Bergner, 1982(Bergner, , 1985Ossorio, 1976Ossorio, , 1982Schwartz, 1979). For example, Mary Smith may be a captain in the military, a psychotherapist to her clients, a wife to John Smith, a mother to Susie Smith, an adherent to her faith, and a critic of herself, among countless other relations to self and world.…”

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Status dynamic psychotherapy with depressed individuals.

Bergner¹

1988

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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The great majority of depressions are precipitated by a status loss. Classical symptoms of depression such as sadness, loss of motivation, anhedonia, self-reproach, and more, are intelligible on this view. Therapeutic approaches which address themselves to a) restoring the status lost, and/or b) helping the person to exploit compensatory statuses are suggested.Depression is a pathological state in which there is a significant restriction in the ability of persons to behave in ways which require that they envision for themselves a viable future. The usual (but not universal) precipitating events for depressed states are persons perceiving, correctly or incorrectly, that they have undergone status changes entailing significant net losses of valued behavior potential (Ossorio, 1976). Depression, Pathological States, and Status LossThe Deficit Model of Pathological States. In this model, a pathological state is one in which there is a significant restriction in the ability of a person to engage in deliberate action (Ossorio, 1985). That is, there is a significant restriction on one's ability to "behave" in the full sense of that term-to engage in some behavior B, knowing that one is doing B rather than other behaviors which one distinguishes, and having chosen B as B from among a set of distinguished behavioral alternatives as being the thing to do. In the vernacular, we characterize such behavior as "acting on purpose, in ways that make sense, knowing

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Degradation, Accreditation, and Rites of Passage

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

The construction of anger in comments on the public behavior of members of the social elite in Chile

The construction of anger in comments on the public behavior of members of the social elite in Chile

The positive therapeutic relationship as accreditation.

Status dynamic psychotherapy with depressed individuals.

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