In the following, I want to consider the establishment, stabilisation and semantic weighting of borders of normality as part of the education dispute in Baden-Württemberg. Within the spectrum of the normal, borders require both legitimisation and semantic solidification to obtain societal validity. I will focus on symbolic boundaries, which permeate social order and create hierarchies between groups in society. “Symbolic boundaries are often used to enforce, maintain, normalize, or rationalize social boundaries as exemplified by the use of culture markers in class distinctions […] or cognitive stereotyping in gender inequalities.” (Lamont/Molnár 2002: 186) Such boundaries manifest as part of a society’s social order and entail consequences of in- and exclusion. They cause a classification and aggregation of individuals, which imply social difference and real-world effects for those affected. My analysis explores the question of how symbolic borders are drawn in the aforementioned dispute and how the separation as well as differentiation among two groups – homosexuals and heterosexuals – are constructed and legitimized. For this purpose, I refer to the results of a discourse analysis conducted with newspaper articles about the education dispute in Baden-Württemberg.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:21121 |
| Date | 17 April 2018 |
| Creators | Fuchs, Matthias |
| Publisher | Universität Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-210868, qucosa:21086 |
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