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* [[A priori]]: True by definition. | * [[A priori]]: True by definition. | ||
* [[Apartwelt]]: The global system of limiting people's access to democracy and social rights through dividing them into different citizenships. | * [[Apartwelt]]: The global system of limiting people's access to democracy and social rights through dividing them into different citizenships. | ||
| + | * [[Apartweltism]]: Categorism targeting those who have the "wrong" citizenship or citizenship-background. | ||
* [[Aspects of categorism]]: The three aspects are the facets, the foci and the abstractions. | * [[Aspects of categorism]]: The three aspects are the facets, the foci and the abstractions. | ||
* [[Categorism As a Dirty Weapon]] | * [[Categorism As a Dirty Weapon]] | ||
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* [[Dichotomism]]: Getting stuck in black and white thinking. | * [[Dichotomism]]: Getting stuck in black and white thinking. | ||
* [[Dichotomization]]: Building discourse through dichotomies. | * [[Dichotomization]]: Building discourse through dichotomies. | ||
| + | * [[Direct and indirect categorism]]: Is the focus, involvement and target direct or indirect? | ||
* [[Discourse]]: How we talk, and therefore think, about things. | * [[Discourse]]: How we talk, and therefore think, about things. | ||
* [[Discursive alliance]]: Agreeing on a discourse, regardless of whether there's also an agreement on goals. | * [[Discursive alliance]]: Agreeing on a discourse, regardless of whether there's also an agreement on goals. | ||
* [[Discursive Struggle]]: People arguing over discourse. How we should conceptualize various terms, what connotations and meanings we should use. | * [[Discursive Struggle]]: People arguing over discourse. How we should conceptualize various terms, what connotations and meanings we should use. | ||
| + | * [[Doubledefinition]]: A form of [[Multidefinition]] limited to two [[concepts]] for the same [[term]]. | ||
* [[Ethics of conceptualization]]: When defining concepts, ethics must be taken into consideration. | * [[Ethics of conceptualization]]: When defining concepts, ethics must be taken into consideration. | ||
| + | * [[Equivocation]]: Treating different things as being the same thing, based on being called the same thing. | ||
* [[Fictionalization]]: Turning an actual event into a story, without pretending that this story is the whole and only truth. | * [[Fictionalization]]: Turning an actual event into a story, without pretending that this story is the whole and only truth. | ||
* [[Five faces of oppression]]: A model by Iris Marion Young, arguing that we should look into facets or categorism rather than foci of categorism. | * [[Five faces of oppression]]: A model by Iris Marion Young, arguing that we should look into facets or categorism rather than foci of categorism. | ||
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* [[Mental prison]]: Getting trapped in one's own mind. | * [[Mental prison]]: Getting trapped in one's own mind. | ||
* [[Meso]]: An intermediate (medium) level between micro (small) and macro (large). | * [[Meso]]: An intermediate (medium) level between micro (small) and macro (large). | ||
| + | * [[Multidefinition]]: Using the same [[term]] for multiple separate concepts. | ||
* [[Narrative Alliance]]: People agreeing on a mutual narrative. | * [[Narrative Alliance]]: People agreeing on a mutual narrative. | ||
* [[Narrativism]]: Getting stuck in storytelling. | * [[Narrativism]]: Getting stuck in storytelling. | ||
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* [[Power relationships]]: (Social) Power exist between people, not within them. | * [[Power relationships]]: (Social) Power exist between people, not within them. | ||
* [[Racified]]: To be classified as being a certain "race". | * [[Racified]]: To be classified as being a certain "race". | ||
| + | * [[Respect]]: The most relevant meaning being to treat each person with basic human decency. | ||
* [[Social Constructionism]]: Social realities are built by humans. | * [[Social Constructionism]]: Social realities are built by humans. | ||
* [[Social Expectations]]: (TBP - to be presented) | * [[Social Expectations]]: (TBP - to be presented) | ||
Latest revision as of 13:48, 19 August 2020
This page is (intended to grow into) a list of concepts that are related to categorism itself or to the understanding of categorism. This list does not include those concepts that are primarily facets, foci or abstractions of categorism, as these concepts are listed on those pages.
Note that many terms have many meanings, and this site is not trying to be a comprehensive glossary. It tries to explain only how the terms are used here.
- Abyss-category: The category a culture or subculture defines itself against.
- A priori: True by definition.
- Apartwelt: The global system of limiting people's access to democracy and social rights through dividing them into different citizenships.
- Apartweltism: Categorism targeting those who have the "wrong" citizenship or citizenship-background.
- Aspects of categorism: The three aspects are the facets, the foci and the abstractions.
- Categorism As a Dirty Weapon
- Cateitization Alliance: Agreeing on how to categorize people and what identities they should have.
- Categorization: Defining and reproducing categories.
- Cateitization: Building and reproducing identity for oneself and cateity for others.
- Cateity: Intersection of categorization and identity.
- Comprehensibilization: Making something possible to understand.
- Conceptualization: defining concepts.
- Contained Narrativism: Narrativism contained to its rightful place in dealing with storytelling.
- Critical realism: The stance that while our senses doesn't mirror physical reality, they do reference it.
- The Dead Hand of Plato: Dawkin's term for how essentialism stops us from understanding reality.
- Deepity: A shallow (or even utterly meaningless) statement, designed to sound deep and profound.
- Dicana: The combination of DIscourse, CAteity and NArrative.
- Dicanaism: The combination of DIchotomism, CAtegorism and NArrativism
- Dicanaization: The combination of DIcotomization, CAteitization and NArrativization.
- Dichotomism: Getting stuck in black and white thinking.
- Dichotomization: Building discourse through dichotomies.
- Direct and indirect categorism: Is the focus, involvement and target direct or indirect?
- Discourse: How we talk, and therefore think, about things.
- Discursive alliance: Agreeing on a discourse, regardless of whether there's also an agreement on goals.
- Discursive Struggle: People arguing over discourse. How we should conceptualize various terms, what connotations and meanings we should use.
- Doubledefinition: A form of Multidefinition limited to two concepts for the same term.
- Ethics of conceptualization: When defining concepts, ethics must be taken into consideration.
- Equivocation: Treating different things as being the same thing, based on being called the same thing.
- Fictionalization: Turning an actual event into a story, without pretending that this story is the whole and only truth.
- Five faces of oppression: A model by Iris Marion Young, arguing that we should look into facets or categorism rather than foci of categorism.
- Foci and abstractions of categorism: Explaining the difference.
- Identification: How a person is categorized by others.
- Identity: How people define themselves.
- Individualism: Various ideas focusing on the individual.
- Internal Reality: The world inside a person's mind.
- Internalized categorism: Categorism against oneself.
- Intersectionality: Every person belongs to many categories, and the categorizations interact with each other.
- Layers of reality: Reality can be said to have three layers - pgysical reality outside humans, internal realities inside humans, and social realities between humans.
- Mental prison: Getting trapped in one's own mind.
- Meso: An intermediate (medium) level between micro (small) and macro (large).
- Multidefinition: Using the same term for multiple separate concepts.
- Narrative Alliance: People agreeing on a mutual narrative.
- Narrativism: Getting stuck in storytelling.
- Normativity: The way something is supposed to be, according to a certain norm – a certain set of social expectations and values.
- Not All: The (relevant or otherwise) claim that not everyone in a certain category is in a certain way.
- Oppression: Categorism in a severely unequal balance of power.
- The Piñata Effect: Concepts getting over-stuffed.
- Power relationships: (Social) Power exist between people, not within them.
- Racified: To be classified as being a certain "race".
- Respect: The most relevant meaning being to treat each person with basic human decency.
- Social Constructionism: Social realities are built by humans.
- Social Expectations: (TBP - to be presented)
- Social prison: Getting trapped in social norms and structures.
- Social Reality: The third of the three layers of reality, built between humans.
- Stereotype: (TBP - to be presented)
- Thought-terminating cliché: A concept you use to stop thinking rather than expand your thinking.
- Universalism: Including, or claiming to include, everyone and everything.
- Universal human rights: The three ways in which human rights are universal.
- Valid struggle against categorism: A disclaimer.
- Visibilization: To make something visible. The opposite of invisibilization.
