Negative Klassifikationen Konflikte um die symbolische Ordnung sozialer Ungleichheit

Neckel, Sighard; Sutterlüty, Ferdinand

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-80502-7_16

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“…The predominant patterns of negative classifications in both areas can be divided into two types. This distinction — namely, between gradual and categorical classifications (Neckel and Sutterlüty, 2005; see also Berger, 1989) — is essential for understanding the integrative consequences of the observed classificatory patterns.…”

Section: The Semantics Of Negative Classificationsmentioning

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Bashing the Migrant Climbers: Interethnic Classification Struggles in German City Neighborhoods

Sutterlüty¹,

Neckel²

2006

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article examines the symbolic order of the relationships between various social groups in disadvantaged neighborhoods and shows that ethnicity is the main reference point of derogatory designations or 'negative classifications'. Using two districts in German cities as examples, the semantic patterns of mutual negative classifications among autochthonous individuals and their Turkish neighbors are reconstructed. Upwardly mobile individuals of Turkish origin are the most frequent targets of stigmatization. This fact is explained by the existence of a deep symbolic dimension of social inequality that conceives of ethnicity in terms of kinship relations. The socially inclusive or exclusive effects of negative interethnic classifications and the related classification struggles depend on three factors: the internal, i.e. gradual or categorical logic of the classification patterns; the form and process of conflict resolution; and the social contexts in which negative classifications are used. While the disintegrating effects of negative classifications are curbed by institutionalized norms in local politics and economic life, there only exist informal performative norms of interaction in the life-world, and here these classifications can more easily lead to social exclusion and ethnic separation. Copyright (c) 2006 The Authors. Journal Compilation (c) 2006 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd..

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Section: The Semantics Of Negative Classificationsmentioning

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Bashing the Migrant Climbers: Interethnic Classification Struggles in German City Neighborhoods

Sutterlüty¹,

Neckel²

2006

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…These groups were distinguished by both vertical and horizontal inequalities. The principal objective of the study was to explore the disintegrative and, at times, integrative effects of these classifications and classification struggles (for more information on the theoretical background, see Bourdieu, 1990;Neckel, 1991;Neckel and Sutterlüty, 2005;Sutterlüty and Neckel, 2006). The study made use of the data collection techniques of field research, including participant observation, but was also based on individual interviews and group discussions.…”

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The belief in ethnic kinship

Sutterlüty

2006

Ethnography

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The belief that members of an ethnic group are blood relatives may seem archaic, but it is still very alive today, and it awakens primordial feelings of affiliation. According to this deep-rooted idea of kinship, individuals are only responsible for members of their own ethnic group, and it is only to them that they are obliged to show solidarity. The effects of this belief were seen at two blood drives that the German Red Cross held at a Turkish mosque in the Ruhr region of Germany and that were studied in an ethnographic research project. An analysis shows that the belief in ethnic kinship represents a major barrier to integration and an important factor in perpetuating social inequality among ethnic groups. The Turkish migrants endeavored to initiate an exchange of gifts among quasi-relatives and based their integration strategy on this objective, but their efforts to establish reciprocal exchange relations provoked resistance in the autochthonous population. Herein lies the broader relevance of the primordial belief in blood relations, which constitutes a deep symbolic dimension of social inequality.

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“…Dabei ist die Unterscheidung zwischen graduellen und kategorialen Klassifikationen von großer Bedeutung (vgl. dazu Berger 1989;Neckel 2003;Neckel/Sutterlüty 2005). Graduelle Klassifikationen beurteilen Personen und Gruppen unter dem Gesichtspunkt von quantitativen Differenzen.…”

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Übernahmegerüchte. Klassifikationskämpfe zwischen türkischen Aufsteigern und ihren deutschen Nachbarn

Sutterlüty¹,

Walter²

2005

Leviathan

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Negative Klassifikationen Konflikte um die symbolische Ordnung sozialer Ungleichheit

Cited by 41 publications

References 11 publications

Bashing the Migrant Climbers: Interethnic Classification Struggles in German City Neighborhoods

Bashing the Migrant Climbers: Interethnic Classification Struggles in German City Neighborhoods

The belief in ethnic kinship

Übernahmegerüchte. Klassifikationskämpfe zwischen türkischen Aufsteigern und ihren deutschen Nachbarn

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