| Abstrakt: |
Micropolitics examines how the signs of everyday conversation reinforce capitalist relations of production and the interests of the capitalist class. Review and assessment of published research indicate that Address, Self-Disclosure, Seating, Eye-Contact, and Touch are reliable and valid indexes of interpersonal hierarchy and solidarity. The claim is that high hierarchy/low solidarity messages establish an unconscious acceptance of the idea that social inequality and alienation are necessary, that is, the result of human nature. On the other hand, low hierarchy/high solidarity messages establish the foundation for a predisposition to respond to equality and compassion as socially acceptable ways to organize society. Cross-cultural research supports the claim that the signs of interpersonal hierarchy and solidarity in everyday conversation are learned behaviors, that is, the result of nurture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
