Kollektive standarders betydning for integrationsmuligheder i Danmark

Abstract

This thesis explores collective standards in relation to the possibilities of becoming a part of Danish society as a Dane with another ethnicity. I argue that collective standards should be grasped from a dialectical point of view where standards are created by subjects but at the same time creates subjects. This thesis is based on two theoretical perspectives: Semiotic Cultural Psychology and Critical Psychology. Where Cultural Psychology focuses on the microgenesis and people as meaning-making, Critical Psychology focuses on the objective societal conditions and structures which lay the foundation for people’s life at the same time as it is produced by people. Thus, these perspectives can each contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the phenomena. Based on these theoretical perspectives, I stress that collective standards exist in parallel and opposite forms and that these standards are produced and transformed by people from the standpoint of each person. Thus, people are goal-oriented and their actions are based on different interests in different social practices. People can have different possibilities for action and participation, and a main argument in this thesis is that Danes with another ethnicity have very limited possibilities for action if they are in a minority position. Thus, by maintaining specific collective standards where Danes with another ethnicity are being excluded specific power relations within society are maintained.

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