Ardiningtiyas Pitaloka,
Lestari Nurhayati
Universitas YARSI
Tutut Chusniyah,
Universitas Negeri Malang
Abstract: A belief, as a unit of knowledge, is often labeled as an idea, cognition, thought, or opinion. Believes have been viewed of social psychology as units of cognition. This study is focus on contents and contexts of beliefs, in which process of anchoring and objectification occurred. Anchoring is a mechanism that strives to anchor strange ideas, to reduce them to ordinary categories and images, to set them in familiar context. Objectification is turning something abstract into something almost concrete, to transfer what it is in the mind to something existing in the physical world. We use discourse method of social representation by depth interview. Discourse plays a prominent role as the preferential site for the explicit, verbal formulation and the persuasive communication of ideological propositions. This discourse is the perspective of the Islam fundamentalism group elites in interpreting beliefs, which is thought to be identical with Islamic symbols, and how it is being utilized. They are khilafah (Islamdom), jihad (holy war), kaffah (totally being Moslem), syekh (leader), shari’a (entire Moslem-law), habib (heritage of prophet), taliban (Moslem troops). This study is seeking for how Islam fundamentalism group elites objectify meaning of the beliefs. Regard to their authority to making meaning into group as a whole and the follower. The subjects of the study are FPI (Islamic Defenders Front), HTI (Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia) and PKS (Prosperous Justice Party). The interesting results depicting distinguish meaning of beliefs among the group elites.
Keyword: beliefs, meaning, Islam fundamentalism, anchoring and objectification
Presented; The Scientific Programme and Symposia of the 8th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, 11-14 Desember 2009, New Delhi, INDIA.
