Social silencing: Illustrated theories on features of the epiphenomenon of silence in selected categories of the social.
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Title
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Social silencing: Illustrated theories on features of the epiphenomenon of silence in selected categories of the social.
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Identifier
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AAI9405604
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identifier
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9405604
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Creator
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Yard, Margaret.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Stanley Aronowitz
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Date
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1993
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, General | Sociology, Theory and Methods | Mass Communications
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Abstract
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Social Silencing asserts that the word "silence" is used largely as a metaphor, not as a description of the absence of sound. And, it has a social construction and a social meaning. This meaning has to do with the suppression, repression, or non-presence of discourse. It takes three major forms: (1) political or brutal silence characterized by actual restraint (2) cultural silence which though devoid of explicit restraint is auto-induced and (3) sacred or organic silence which refers to all areas in which the verbal is inadequate, but which nevertheless remain part of the social.;This taxonomy is mapped across two major institutions and two different types of power differentials: {dollar}{dollar}\vbox{lcub}\halign{lcub}#\hfil&&#\hfil\cr &GENDER/WOMEN/POWER DEPRIVATION\cr &MEDICINE/ELITE/POWER PRESERVATION.\cr{rcub}{rcub}{dollar}{dollar}For example, in gender, women are considered as a "demos" or power deprived group and their silencing behaviors manifests their position in relation to power, while the medical profession is taken as an elite group whose power is connected to specialized knowledges and whose silencing is determined by their power. The genealogy of this approach is itself tracked through the literature of sociology and psychology following the example of Freud, Fromm, and Marcuse.;This treatment of the subject calls into question that silence is a universally applied concept. It addresses the treatment of silence in the social as a "taken for granted" phenomenon, yet is manifest in the lifeworld in each and every institution of the social. Silence is identified as a specific marker which is emblematic for each period.;My procedure is to identify the myriad aspects of silence, and to prove its specificities and potent social effects by identifying it in social locations. I will analyze intersubjective, behavioral and institutional constructions and look at not only the mechanics, but the process of silence, that is, how silence is determinant under certain conditions of the social by how it influences, marks, disrupts and constructs social relations.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
