Pub Date : 2002-11-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200401
B. Agger
The author argues that sociological writing needs to shift out of the positivist mode of the report of findings and become unashamedly literary. That is, it must confess its "authoriality," the fact that it has been written with perspective, passion, and political standpoint by an author. In this sense, sociology is science fiction-a way of making an argument using data and analysis. Much positivist sociological writing erases the author's fingerprints from the text with methodology, which is seen to end arguments Informed by Derrida and the Frankfurt School, the author contends that nonpositivist sociological writing confesses its animating assumptions and invites others to join an endless argument about the good. Writing models community in this way and helps bring it about. For sociology to be told as a "story" need not delegitimize its findings; objectivity and a literary subjectivity need not clash but can be seen as mutually reinforcing once we abandon the positivist goal of perfect representation.
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Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200310
Z. Gurevitch
The poetic moment in social science brings up questions of poetics, such as what makes writing poetic, and what are the critical shifts introduced by poetic writing? In the present article, the idea of poetics is explored through the notion of transfiguration. Transfiguration is a combination of trans and figuration. It holds both an idea of closure, namely, the figurative, the bring ing into form, and an idea of opening, namely, the sense of passage that comes with and through trans/trance. It is argued that the writing of culture, and the idea of poetization, requires a shift from writing that describes, explains, or even expresses to a writing that transfigures.
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Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200308
Charles C. Lemert
The public life is one entered more by the patience of the poetic ear than by the sharpness of the pen or the truth of the facts.
进入公共生活更多的是靠富有诗意的耳朵的耐心，而不是靠笔锋的锐利或事实的真相。
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Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200307
Z. Bauman
Quoting the Czech poet Jan Skacel’s opinion on the plight of the poet (who, in Skacel’s words, only discovers the verses that &dquo;were always, deep down, there&dquo;), Milan Kundera commented (in LArt du roman, 1986), &dquo;To write, means for the poet to crush the wall behind which something that ’was always there’ hides.&dquo; In this respect, the task of the poet is not different from the work of history, which also discovers rather than &dquo;invents&dquo;: History, like poets, uncovers, in ever new situations, human possibilities previously hidden. What history does matter-of factly is a challenge, a task, and a mission for the poet. To rise to this mission, the poet must refuse to serve up truths known beforehand and well-worn truths already &dquo;obvious&dquo; because they have been brought to the surface and left floating there. It does not matter whether such truths &dquo;assumed in advance&dquo; are classified as revolutionary or dissident, Christian or atheist-or how right and proper, noble and just they are or have been proclaimed to be. Whatever their denomination, those &dquo;truths&dquo; are not this &dquo;something hidden&dquo; that the poet is called to uncover; they are, rather, parts of the wall that the poet’s mission is to crush. Spokesmen for the obvious, selfevident, and &dquo;what we all believe, don’t we?&dquo; are false poets, said Kundera. But what, if anything, does the poet’s vocation have to do with the sociologist’s calling ? We sociologists rarely write poems. (Some of us who do take for the time of writing a leave of absence from our professional pursuits.) And yet if we do not wish to share the fate of &dquo;false poets&dquo; and resent being &dquo;false sociologists,&dquo; we ought to come as close as the true poets do to the yet-hidden human possibilities. And for that reason, we need to pierce the walls of the obvious and selfevident, of that prevailing ideological fashion of the day whose commonality is
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Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200309
P. Willis, Mats Trondman
a grand, systematic, waterproof, &dquo;ready-made&dquo; theory/methodology counterposed to other scholastic &dquo;ready-mades.&dquo; Instead, we hope that this manifesto will be read as enabling and &dquo;sensitizing,&dquo; theoretically and methodologically, approaches to lived culture, worldly experiences, and practical sense making. That is, we hope this manifesto is &dquo;put to work&dquo; in helping to produce a wide range of ethnographies, thereby being developed, refined, and criticized without ever being locked up as a given system of thought. What is ethnography for us? Most important, it is a family of methods involving direct and sustained social contact with agents and of richly writing up the encounter, respecting, recording, representing at least partly in its own terms the irreducibility of human experience. Ethnography is the disciplined and deliberate witness-cum-recording of human events. As arguably the first ethnographer Herodotus (1987) said in arguably the first ethnography, The History, &dquo;so far it is my eyes, my judgement, and my searching that speaks these words to you&dquo; (p. 171). &dquo;This-ness&dquo; and &dquo;lived-out-ness&dquo; are essential to the ethnographic account: a unique sense of embodied existence and conscious-
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Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200303
Henry A. Giroux
Five months after the horrific terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, President George Bush announced in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002, that the &dquo;war against terror is only just beginning&dquo; and that if other governments exhibit timidity in the face of terror, America will act without them. Claiming that the security of the nation was his first priority, Bush not only proclaimed a war without end but suggested that the United States would act unilaterally throughout the world to enforce what
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Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200306
A. Valdivia
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Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/15308602002003011
L. Richardson
In this article, the author considers alternative forms for writing sociology and the question of audience(s) for sociological writing. The author briefly discusses a poststructuralist approach to knowledge, acknowledges her own writing history, and then presents a narrative, "Chicago 1940," which situates sociological conceptualization in an autoethnography.
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Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200304
D. Kellner
In his televised State of the Union Address on January 29, George W. Bush promised an epoch of Terror War, expanding the Bush doctrine to not only go after terrorists and those who harbor terrorist groups but to include those countries making weapons of mass destruction. Claiming that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea constituted &dquo;an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world,&dquo; Bush put the &dquo;world’s most dangerous regimes&dquo; on notice that he was planning to escalate the war on terror. Rattling the saber and making it clear that he was perfectly ready to wag the dog if Enron or domestic scandals and
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Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200301
S. Hartnett
In my initial, stunned thinking about the terrorist strikes, I stumbled again and again not only on my utter unpreparedness to make sense of what happened but also, perhaps even more frightening, on latent assumptions about national exceptionalism, race, class, religion, and the use of armed force. I thus found myself wondering along with Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1996), &dquo;How in the world did ideology get in my head, locked so firm?&dquo; (p. 34). Even while organizing and participating in various political responses to the War on Terrorism, I found myself struggling to make sense of the relationships among overarching critical-theoretical stabs at understanding, rapidly changing political scenarios, and my immediate personal sense of confusion and loss. Thus, like Duplessis and fellow Cultural Studies H Critical Methodologies contributors Patricia Ticineto Clough (2002) and Laurel Richardson (2002), I found
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