Sociological Discourse Analysis: Understanding Homelessness and Social Groups

Sociological Interpretation of Discourse

The sociological interpretation of discourse becomes reflexive (double baseline):

  • Active reading: Queries to the text are performed from a polyphony of different social positions within the relevant social field.
  • Egalitarian (passive) reading: Without omitting anything, and without privilege, trying to dismantle and prepare the organization of the text. Literalism, care, and attention to the word or key phrase.

The opportunity to pose questions to the text is subject to literalness and equality.

Macro-Level Context

In a macro-level context, the sociological analysis of speeches intends to rebuild the field of social forces and interests that fall within the research and that are located in different areas or community orders reflected in the text.

Linguistic Community

How groups speak, with different meanings and contents. For example:

HolderShares allottedStatus definition
Marginality and crimeBegging, loitering, violating“The tramp, like the beggar, is an outsider”
The drama of what they are in the right of GodDrinking alcohol, carrying bags, living off charity“Some crazy people, almost all alcoholics, others with problems of adaptation”
Living in the streetStudy, work, “slaves to their feelings”Already 152 people who lived on the street are sleeping under their roof
OK to stay and move“The program provides food and bed, medical and psychological”Unemployment as a trigger
Drinking alcohol, loiteringFor self-reliance and how to incorporate action is therapeutically, Employment PlanThose who refuse to live in society
Camping, breaking ties with the family, alcoholIn general, do not want to live in society, intend to continue weathering

Defining Homelessness

As seen in the example, the definition of homelessness has many different aspects to create an image of the collective: asocial, marginalization, vice, etc.

Regarding, for example, the gypsy community, the linguistic meaning and context are different from the bumpkin. We must take into account the context of a historical community, the sociopolitical context of the community, etc.

Observing Different Contexts

The result of observing the different macro contexts in which we can set the map of various discursive positions reflected in the text and referred by him from the questions the analyst is doing is not so much what the text says explicitly but what it says or does not say, what part of the budget.

Analysis of Discourses

The analysis is one that analyzes the discourses as products of language and as a result of a production process that brings even the social context (linguistic, cultural, historical, and socio-political) which produces and registers said or budget.

Understanding Reality

Discourse analysis is an understanding of reality. While working with the explanation that observed facts and hypotheses verify from empirical data, so does understanding the experiences and meanings of the subjects he studies. The facts are significant because they directly concern individuals who express their experiences.

Social Science as Interpretive Knowledge

In this particular annotation, it is as separate and alienate the natural sciences as in social science as knowledge is interpretive (unexplained) tied to the meaning or intent of the acts realized by individuals, groups, or collectives, and the social scientist will try to say or express again in an endless paraphrase that never expires.