Nous ne ferons pas la guerre de la laïcité

Mangeot, Philippe; Grelet, Stany; Wajeman, Lise; Zaoui, Pierre; Lalande, Aude; Confavreux, Joseph; Casanova, Vincent; Duchêne, Laurence; Vermeersch, Laure; Porte, Xavier de La; Wahnich, Sophie; Dupart, Dominique; Fouteau, Carine; Neuenhaus, Petra

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“…Importantly, the analysis of this "direct-contextual path" in the French context shows that it is necessary to be particularly vigilant to the framing of egalitarian and anti-racism norms within societies. For example, the egalitarian Historic Laïcité is used in the socio-political discourse as a bulwark against the normative drifts of the New Laïcité (Akan, 2009;Mangeot et al, 2012;Gautherin, 2014). However, our detailed analysis of the sociocognitive processes suggests that the Historic Laïcité frame could drive prejudice suppression and that it is not de facto an effective way to reduce prejudice itself.…”

Section: Scope Of the Modelmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…As a consequence, increasingly since 2004, the Laïcité is repeatedly marshaled in speeches concerning the place of Islam in French society. While at the same time, the defenders of the more traditional Laïcité do not hesitate to voice concerns about its ideological shift (Akan, 2009;Baubérot, 2012;Mangeot et al, 2012). Importantly, Kamiejski et al's (2012) seminal work on the French Laïcité showed that, at the psychological level, there are indeed, not one but at least two different conceptions of Laïcité that coexist in social space 5 : the Historic and the New Laïcité.…”

Section: Historic and New Laïcité: Two Norms To Deal With Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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From Diversity Ideologies to the Expression of Stereotypes: Insights Into the Cognitive Regulation of Prejudice Within the Cultural-Ecological Context of French Laïcité

Lankester

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This theoretical paper examines the context-sensitivity of the impact of cultural norms on prejudice regulation. Granting the importance of understanding intergroup dynamics in cultural-ecological contexts, we focus on the peculiarities of the French diversity approach. Indeed, the major cultural norm, the Laïcité (i.e., French secularism) is declined today in two main variants: The Historic Laïcité, a longstanding egalitarian norm coexisting with its amended form: The New Laïcité, an assimilationist norm. In fact, these co-encapsulated Laïcité variants constitute a fruitful ground to cast light on the processes underlying prejudice regulation. Indeed, it is documented that the assimilationist New Laïcité is linked to higher levels of prejudice as compared to the egalitarian Historic Laïcité. To this day, research mainly explored interindividual determinants of Laïcité endorsements and specified how these endorsements shape prejudice. Crucially, this “indirect-endorsement path” does not account for the more straightforward causal relationship between Laïcité and prejudice. Moreover, recent experimental evidence suggests that the normative salience of both Laïcité norms shape intergroup attitudes beyond personal endorsement. Therefore, in this contribution, we complement previous work by investigating the possible socio-cognitive processes driving this “direct-contextual path.” In doing so, we seek to bridge the gap of causality by investigating how the Laïcité norms can set the stage for specific regulatory strategies. Our reasoning derives from an application of the Justification-Suppression Model bolstered by classical work on mental control, modern racism and diversity ideology. From this, we sketch out the operative functioning of two distinct regulation processes: (a) one that prevents prejudicial attitudes but which can have unexpected consequences on stereotyping within the Historic Laïcité context (i.e., suppression) and (b) one that helps realize prejudice within the New Laïcité context (i.e., justification). From this analysis, we discuss the consequences for intergroup relations within and beyond the French context. In particular, we outline the importance of an adequate framing of egalitarian ideologies so that they achieve their goal to foster harmonious intergroup relations.

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confidence: 90%