Pitfalls of difference

Authors

  • Antônio Flávio Pierucci Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/ts.v2i2.84798

Keywords:

Difference, Identity, Equality, Unequality, Right, Left, New social movements, Minorities, Feminism, Sexism, Chauvinism, Racism, Heterophobia, The right to difference, Perverse effects

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the perverse effects that take place when the left makes as its the issue of difference, that is crucial, defining of rightist traditions. Based upon the Sears case (USA) and the Le Pen case (France), the author points up to the racist, and sexist traps ingrained in arguments that underline and focus difference, particularly in a time in History when conservative forces come up again, and reuse those arguments as though they were theirs, and now shoot them against leftist social movements.

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Author Biography

  • Antônio Flávio Pierucci, Universidade de São Paulo

    Professor do Departamento de Sociologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo. Coordenador do Curso de pós-Graduação em Sociologia da Universidade de São Paulo.

Published

1990-07-07

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Section

Articles

How to Cite

Pierucci, A. F. (1990). Pitfalls of difference. Tempo Social, 2(2), 7-33. https://doi.org/10.1590/ts.v2i2.84798