Ομοφυλοφιλία, Ουσιοποίηση Και Ταυτότητα Στο Λόγο Ομοφυλόφιλων Και Ετεροφυλόφιλων Ανδρών

Abstract

Essentialism of social categories and its consequences on intergroup relations constitute one of the most popular research topics in social psychology. Drawing upon the relevant literature, the present study explores essentialist and de-essentialist representations about homosexual men and their identity functions in discourse. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight men who identified themselves as homosexual and eight men who identified themselves as heterosexual. Interviews were analyzed by the use of the principles of discursive psychology and rhetoric. Analysis indicated the coexistence of essentialist and de-essentialist representations of homosexuality in the discourse of both groups as a result of the negotiation and reconceptualization of naturalness, historical stability and normality of social categories. However, similar essentialist representations –suchas the historical stability of homosexuality– perform different intergroup functions, whereas different entitative representations perform common intergroup functions in the discourse of homosexual and heterosexual participants.

Conspiracy theories in online deliberation on gender identity legislation: Dilemmas of prejudice and political partisanship and implications for LGBTQI+ claims

“…The first problematizes the co-occurrence of provisions on children rights in the same bill as gender identity. In common with accounts identified in other studies (Kadianaki et al, 2022;Michos et al, 2021;Michos et al, 2022;Μίχος & Φίγγου, 2019) human rights rhetoric, and the legislation which guarantees them in this case, is constructed as a smokescreen to culturally threatening Westernizing practices and values (in this case related to gender identity). The rhetorical questions in lines 1-11 introduce an escalation of moral critique which ends in constructing the abolition of the essential Greek tripartite values of Homeland, Orthodoxy and Family from children's upbringing as a perversion.…”