Inferiorization refers to the process of imposing a stigmatized or inferiorized identity on a group of people. Inferiorization imposes stigma on a group of people. The people stigmatized tend to adopt a sense of inferiority that leads to a sapping of confidence and ability, inhibits political organization and results in a host of personal and collective social problems. The inferiorization concept can be linked to the theory of culture of poverty.
Inferiorization of immigrants is the transformation of immigrants from strangers to social enemies through panic and social exclusion. Inferiorization is the conscious, deliberate and systematic process utilized specifically by a racist social system. Afrikan genetic potential is destroyed and profoundly influences the whole life experience of every Afrikan person when the introduction of the inferiorization process is present.
Inferiorization is the brainwashing process that "We as Afrikans in the Diaspora use as our learned behavior and thinking process. This brainwashing is ingrained in the fabric of every life sustaining institution that effects the Afrikan person's life that the Afrikan person does not control." This methodical disenfranchisement is a basis for violence in the Black community. This foundation of aggression, referred to as the Inferiorization Process, is described by William Oliver as the systematic stress attack involving the entire complex of political, legal, educational, economic, religious, military, and mass media institutions controlled by Whites; designed to produce dysfunctional patterns of behavior among Blacks in all areas of life.
Through the inferiorization process, Blacks are socialized to be incapable of solving or helping to produce solutions to problems posed by the environment. However, for Whites, the inferiorization process is designed to facilitate their development as functional superiors. As a result of their exposure, a substantial number of Black males have opted to re-define manhood in terms of toughness, sexual conquest, and thrill seeking.” [William Oliver, Black Males and Social Problems: Prevention Through Afrocentric Socialization, Journal of Black Studies.
Black immigrants in Portugal: Luso-tropicalism and prejudice, Jorge Vala
and Diniz Lopes.
Extract: Democratic societies abandoned the explanations based on racial differences and replaced them by cultural differences, that is, racial inferiorization was
substituted by cultural inferiorization. However, we put forward the hypothesis that
nowadays it is not only no longer socially acceptable the idea of racial inferiorization
but also the idea of cultural inferiorization. Many authors maintain that general prejudice, explicit cultural inferiorization and explicit racial inferiorization, is independent of
the perception of cultural differences.
Cosmetic Surgery in a Different Voice: The Case of Madame Noel - by Kathy
Davis
Abstract: Cosmetic surgery emerged at the end of the 19th century in the U.S.
and Europe. Like most branches of surgery, it is a 'masculine' medical
specialty, both numerically and in terms of professional 'ethos'. Given the role
cosmetic surgery - and, more generally, the feminine beauty system - play in the
disciplining and inferiorization of women's bodies, a feminist cosmetic surgeon
would seem to be a contradiction in terms.
The Survival of Domination: Inferiorization and Everyday Life - Barry D. Adam. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 8, No. 3 (May, 1979), p. 465. There is continuity between the operation of the labour markets thanks to the inferiorization of exogenous work and the constitution of minorities on the civic and political level. The rule of passage from the one to the other is as follows: the stronger the institutional and legal inferiorization will have been in the first operational mode, the more probabilities that there will be a blossoming of systems. How should one understand this gradation in the legal inferiorization?
UNEMPLOYMENT AS A DRAMATURGICAL PROBLEM: TEACHING IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT IN A WORK
INCENTIVE PROGRAM - Gale Miller, Marquette University.
Abstract: It is intended to apply and extend Adam's (1978) political phenomenology of
domination by analyzing inferiorization as a feature of contemporary human service work.
The analysis focuses on dramaturgical instruction of unemployed welfare recipients as a
process of inferiorization through which clients are cast as disadvantaged in their
dealings with area employers. The analysis addresses
five primary questions:
(1) How is the dramaturgical perspective organized as an ideology of inferiorization in Women’s Information Network (WIN) and other human service organizations;
(2) What was the context within which dramaturgical instruction was defined by the Women’s Information Network (WIN) staff as a legitimate response to their clients' problems;
(3) What were the assumptions and claims associated with the staff's dramaturgical framing of unemployment;
(4) How was the dramaturgical frame used by the staff to identify concrete rules for proper job-seeking; and
(5) How did
the staff legitimate the perspective and rules associated with it in their interactions
with clients?
"‘Sex, sex-typing and sexism’, as terms, has gained increasing currency, as ‘male
chauvinism,’ as a term, has somewhat declined. The concept is a clear analogy with
‘racism’ and indicates the inferiorization of one sex by the other."