Facets of categorism

A facet of categorism is a way in which categorism is done. With prejudice, bigotry and discrimination constructed as the archetypical facets (being categorism through beliefs, feelings and acts, respectively), there are also more specific facets. Such as marginalization, demonization, othering, and so on. (In Swedish: facetter)

The thesis lists 30 facets of categorism. It also mentions a 31:s facet, infantilization, without including it on the list.

The original list:

• 1. Biased Balance (AKA The Golden Mean Fallacy)
• 2. Categorist Slurs
• 3. Category Agency
• 4. Collective Guilt
• 5. Conspirationalism
• 6. Dehumanization
• 7. Demonization
• 8. Denial of Agency
• 9. Energy Drain
• 10. Enforcing Cateity
• 11. Exploitation
• 12. Hate-crimes
• 13. Illegal Discrimination
• 14. Incomprehensibilization
• 15. Invisibilization
• 16. Kyriarchy
• 17. Marginalization (AKA Social Exclusion)
• 18. Monolithization
• 19. Narrativism
• 20. Narrempiry
• 21. Othering (including “racifying”)
• 22. Reduction (includes “singular identity” and “depersonalization” as well as “objectification” – sexual or otherwise)
• 23. Representation Bias
• 24. Scapegoating
• 25. Stigmatization
• 26. Supremacism
• 27. Unchecked Aversion
• 28. Violence
• 29. Voice Appropriation
• 30. Zerosumming

Other facets

• Infantilization