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In the following example, examples of othering are bolded: Sid: A preschool student Tom: Sid's classmate and best friend Mae: A girl in Sid's class Mitch: Sid's Asian classmate Calvin: The Asian in Sid’s class If their genders, races, etc. are relevant, Sid would be "A white boy in preschool". They aren't. Leave them out.
The practice of Othering excludes persons who do not fit the norm of the social group, which is a version of the Self; [9] likewise, in human geography, the practice of othering persons means to exclude and displace them from the social group to the margins of society, where mainstream social norms do not apply to them, for being the Other. [10]
Othering is a specific form of labeling in which the label produces patterns of power and privilege by designating those who do not follow accepted social norms as lesser. [3] In some cases, othering can cause social exclusion, in which case groups labeled as "other" are denied full participation in society. [ 5 ]
The generalized other is a concept introduced by George Herbert Mead into the social sciences, and used especially in the field of symbolic interactionism.It is the general notion that a person has of the common expectations that others may have about actions and thoughts within a particular society, and thus serves to clarify their relation to the other as a representative member of a shared ...
These informal norms, if broken, may not invite formal legal punishments or sanctions, but instead encourage reprimands, warnings, or othering; incest, for example, is generally thought of as wrong in society, but many jurisdictions do not legally prohibit it.
The action of othering cultures occurs when groups are labeled as different due to characteristics that distinguish them from the perceived norm. [107] Edward Said , author of the book Orientalism , argued that western powers and influential individuals such as social scientists and artists othered " the Orient ". [ 99 ]
For Cornelius Castoriadis (L'institution imaginaire de la société, 1975; The Imaginary Institution of Society, 1997) radical alterity/otherness (French: altérité radicale) denotes the element of creativity in history: "For what is given in and through history is not the determined sequence of the determined but the emergence of radical otherness, immanent creation, non-trivial novelty."
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