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Political correctness: mental disorder, childish fad or advance of human civilization?

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Author(s)
Geser, Hans
Contributor(s)
Universität Zürich, Philosophische Fakultät, Soziologisches Institut
Keywords
Sociology & anthropology
Political science
Politikwissenschaft
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Political Correctness
soziale Norm
Normbildung
Normgeltung
Normverletzung
Wertorientierung
Wertsystem
Werturteil
Wertwandel
Sprache
Diskriminierung
political correctness
social norm
norm formation
adherence to norms
norm violation
value-orientation
value system
value judgement
value change
language
discrimination
deskriptive Studie
descriptive study
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/339440
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http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/32378
Abstract
Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Begriff der "Political Correctness"(PC). Nach einem kurzen Überblick über den Entstehungshintergrund und die unterschiedliche Auslegungen in verschiedenen Ländern geht der Autor auf die moralische Dimension ein. Der nächste Abschnitt befasst sich mit der normativen Kraft von Sprache und dem Rückfall in binäre Gut-Schlecht-Kategorien. Im Anschluss daran wird die kulturelle Dimension des Begriffs und die Gefahr des paternalistischen kulturellen Relativismus beleuchtet. Danach erörtert der Autor die Problematik der PC im Kontext liberaler Freiheitsrechte, die dazu führen können, dass Mehrheiten soziale Minderheiten unterdrücken und ausbeuten. In diesem Zusammenhang kommt es zu einer Verschiebung der Wertkategorie bei den Menschenrechten. Am Wichtigsten ist es nun, nicht von anderen beleidigt oder (verbal) vergewaltigt zu werden. Im Rahmen der PC-Ideologie folgt daraus eine Gesellschaftskonzeption, die sich in Anlehnung an Marx in die zwei konkurrierenden Klassen der Besitzenden und Besitzlosen einteilen lässt, wobei der Begriff der ökonomischen Klasse verallgemeinert auf alle Diskriminierten angewendet wird. Insofern ist der weiße männliche Europäer per se Diskriminierender. Abschließend wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern PC das Verhalten verändert hat und wenn ja warum.
Content: 1. An oxymoronic concept?; 2. The longing for moral community; 3. The normative regulation of speech; 4. The relapse to simplistic binary categorizations; 5. The paradoxes and pitfalls of "paternalistic cultural relativism"; 6. From rights of action to rights of protection; 7. The intropunitive "psychological warfare" against White Males and Western culture; 8. The ianus-faced implications of informality: extended courtesy or "soft totalitarianism"?; 9. Conclusions; References.
Date
2012-05-24
Type
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Identifier
oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/32378
http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/32378
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-323787
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