False Consciousness

Meyerson, Denise

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“…False or ideological consciousness is often characterized as a set of attitudes that are epistemically, functionally, and genetically 'false' (Geuss 1981, Meyerson 1991, Shelby 2003. That is, it is a set of of 3 23 [PREPRINT] evidence-resistant ignorant beliefs, that constitute the motivating, and/or (putatively) normative, reasons for an individual to act in ways that maintain a structure of oppression, and that systematically form in virtue of a given structure of oppression.…”

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Does False Consciousness Necessarily Preclude Moral Blameworthiness?: The Refusal of the Women Antisuffragists

Wilson

2021

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Social philosophers often invoke the concept of false consciousness in their analyses, referring to a set of evidence-resistant, ignorant attitudes held by otherwise sound epistemic agents, systematically occurring in virtue of, and motivating them to perpetuate, structural oppression. But there is a worry that appealing to the notion in questions of responsibility for the harm suffered by members of oppressed groups is victim-blaming. Individuals under false consciousness allegedly systematically fail the relevant rationality and epistemic conditions due to structural distortions of reasoning or knowledge practices, undermining their status as responsible moral agents. But attending to the constitutive mechanisms and heterogeneity of false consciousness enables us to see how having it does not in itself render someone an inappropriate target of blame. I focus here on the 1889 antisuffragist manifesto “An Appeal against Female Suffrage,” arguing that its signatories, despite false consciousness, satisfy both conditions for ordinary blameworthiness. I consider three prominent signatories, observing that the irrationality characterization is unsustainable beyond group-level diagnoses, and that their capacity to respond appropriately to reasons was not compromised. Following recent work on epistemic injustice, I also argue that culpable mechanisms constituted their false consciousness, rendering them blameworthy for the Appeal.

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Section: False Consciousnessmentioning

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Does False Consciousness Necessarily Preclude Moral Blameworthiness?: The Refusal of the Women Antisuffragists

Wilson

2021

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“…Are certain groups of marginalized persons better situated to conduct critical analysis because their identities contain multiple sites of oppression (Tuana, 1993)? Will centering women's perspectives and experiences provide other ways of knowing even if they reflect the internalized oppression that contributes to marginalization (Collins, 1998;Freire, 1970;Meyerson, 1991)?…”

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“The Woman is Not Always the Bad Guy”

Nichols

Feltey

2003

Violence Against Women

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Feminist scholars promote an advocacy and social change approach that is rooted in centering women's knowledge and suggestions for change. This article centers and analyzes suggestions made by women staying in shelters for women who have been battered and explores the ways their perspectives reflect individualized or structural discourse and their solutions concentrate needs at the level of survival, equality, or transformation. The article finds that women have a range of perspectives and suggestions, and feministscholars are encouraged to understand and address these from women's multiple positions while continuing to grapple with how to promote social change to improve women's lives.

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“…According to the measurement model of struct ural equation modeling (Bollen 1989), the composite reliability was .592 (see Table 1). The explanatory statements stemmed from the text that explained the social problems including crime (Colvin and Pauly 1983;Hagan 1988;Hester and Eglin 1992 ;Inciardi 1980;Sherman 1987) and protest (Chan 1989;Habermas 1973;Huntingt on 1968;Kellner 1989;Meyerson 1991;Powell 1982;Shannon 1989;Smith 1980;Zimmermann 1983). …”

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“…Structuralist and individualist explanations are particularly relevant to test ing class theory because they are indicators of true consciousness and false consciousness, respect ively (Meyerson 1991). According to class theory, true consciousness is knowledge that societ y evolves on a dialectical and materialist basis.…”

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Variation in Structuralist and Individualist Explanations Among Classes in Hong Kong

Cheung¹

1999

Sociological Spectrum

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An essential test for the signi cance of class examines variation in people's explanation for social reality. This explanation usually comprises two independent dimensions, structuralist explanation and individualist explanation. Whereas structuralist explanation emphasizes causal factors in society and social structure, individualist explanation concerns causal factors in the individual. Class theory predicts that members of the working class are more favorable to the structuralist explanation and less favorable to the individualist explanation than are members of middle and employing classes. Furthermore, it primarily proposes that the di erential explanation results from one's experience from work conditions, for instance, work alienation. This study tests these hypotheses explicitly with data collected from 276 married couples from Hong Kong. Results of structural equation modeling are in favor of hypotheses concerning e ects of class and their mediation through work alienation. These e ects appear to be more consistent than those of competing predictors including income, home ownership, education, age, gender, and religion. These ndings illustrate the plausibility of the learning-generalization model in interpreting class e ects.The signi cance of class is controversial in the recent literature (Evans 1993; Kingston 1994). On the one hand, critics of its signi cance o er pluralist and postindustrialist or postmodernist views about the ascendancy of alternative strati cation criteria and transformat ion of the economy (Clement and Myles 1994 ; Lash 1984). Pluralist critics hold that (1) gender, ethnicity, and sect ors are more important ways of strati cat ion (Marshall, et al.

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False Consciousness

Cited by 44 publications

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Does False Consciousness Necessarily Preclude Moral Blameworthiness?: The Refusal of the Women Antisuffragists

Does False Consciousness Necessarily Preclude Moral Blameworthiness?: The Refusal of the Women Antisuffragists

“The Woman is Not Always the Bad Guy”

Variation in Structuralist and Individualist Explanations Among Classes in Hong Kong

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