A touch of class: The erasion of group-based social inequality as a hegemonic process in political discourse
Abstract
This paper describes how political discourse, as manifested in the policy statements of two Flemish political parties which assign to themselves the epithet ‘social’, contributes to the erasion of group-based or class- related forms of social inequality. A brief comparison with the academic defense of ‘Third Way’ politics (in the work of Anthony Giddens) leads to the suggestion that we are witnessing a hegemonic process.
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Blommaert, Jan, and Jef Verschueren
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