Personal and political framing both shrink problems but operate in opposite directions.
Evidence
For volunteers, calling something personal was a way of making it seem smaller and more ‘‘do-able’’; for activists, in contrast, ferreting out a problem’s institutional origins did not make it less personal, but did make it feel more *‘do-able.’’ They expanded from personal feelings to structural solutions, instead of treating personal and political as opposite. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1266
Categorization
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1266
- XREF: connects to: Multiple sometimes conflicting identities can coexist in one subject’s politics — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 262; Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought.; People alternate between egalitarian and prejudiced stances depending on what a situation makes salient (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Personal and collective frames are both standpoints, not reality versus abstraction
#responds-to(0.85) - Organic and political traumas blur because both are blows against meaning
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4366 - One ambiguous murder can be mobilized by rival political narratives to serve opposite agendas
#expands(0.80) - Dialectical criticism reveals rather than fabricates the bond between private and social realities.
#expands(0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 775 - Multiple sometimes conflicting identities can coexist in one subject’s politics
#complicates(0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 262 - People alternate between egalitarian and prejudiced stances depending on what a situation makes salient
#complicates(0.75) - Political types differ less in beliefs than in relations to those beliefs.
#complicates(0.75) — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 61 - Contradictory cultural norms force individuals into conflicting prejudiced and egalitarian stances.
#complicates(0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1904 - People’s abstract political principles often fail to match their concrete policy preferences
#complicates(0.73) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3748 - Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought.
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