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Derogatory language - view from sociology

Found some interesting statements from sociology about derogatory language:

•  Sociologists point to derisive language as an indicator of flawed reasoning ...
• a fundamental axiom of sociology recognizes that derogatory forms of speech make erronious attributions ....
• Scholars classify the erroneous assumptions as the fundamental attribution error

 Source: http://www.jahsonic.com/Derogatory.html

Would be interesting to look from this point of view also at derisive language in scientific papers and discussion, for example by David Kenneth Johnson:

• http://www.kjf.ca/78-C25JO.htm  (ON THE PROPER USE OF WORDS)
• http://www.kjf.ca/78-C31JO.htm (CONSTRUCTIVISM DE-RADICALIZED)
• http://www.kjf.ca/78-C84JOH.htm  (BONES IN THE CONSTRUCTIVIST CLOSET)

 

How thinking can alter perception - Nature News 27.10.2010

On Nature online a news article reports about research by Cerf, M. et al. Nature 467, 1104-1108 (2010) which shows how humans can use thinking to alter perception of competing visual images

• Source: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101027/full/news.2010.568.html

In the news Dr. Moran Cerf gives an interesting interpretation of his EXPERIMENTS:

• "The environment offers some reality," he says, "but your own brain can shape it and override it with its internal deliberations." 
  

The THEORY for this has been developed in the last 40 years within the theory of knowing called Radical Constructivism http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/