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How Can Theories Represent Social Phenomena? 理论如何代表社会现象?
IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/07352751221087719
J. Fuhse
Discussions in sociological theory often focus on ontological questions on the nature of social reality. Against the underlying epistemological realism, I argue for a constructivist notion of theory: Theories are webs of concepts that we use to guide empirical observations and to make sense of them. We cannot know the real features of the social world, only what our theoretical perspectives make us see. Theories therefore represent social phenomena by highlighting certain features and relating them in a logical system. In this system, theoretical sentences can be considered true if they meet two conditions: (1) They are consistent with the theory at hand and (2) adequately map empirically observable relations between objects denoted by theoretical constructs. Truth is therefore relative to a perspective; it is not objectively determinable. Theories should be assessed not for their ontologies but for what they allow us to see and how they connect to empirical observations.
社会学理论中的讨论往往集中在关于社会现实本质的本体论问题上。与潜在的认识论现实主义相反,我主张建构主义的理论概念:理论是我们用来指导经验观察并理解它们的概念网。我们无法知道社会世界的真实特征,只能知道我们的理论视角让我们看到了什么。因此,理论通过突出某些特征并将其联系在一个逻辑系统中来代表社会现象。在这个系统中,如果理论句子满足两个条件,就可以认为它们是真的:(1)它们与手头的理论一致;(2)充分映射由理论结构表示的对象之间的经验可观察关系。因此,真理是相对于一种视角而言的;它不能客观地确定。评估理论时不应考虑其本体论,而应考虑它们能让我们看到什么,以及它们如何与经验观察联系起来。
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引用次数: 9
Chance, Orientation, and Interpretation: Max Weber’s Neglected Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory 机会、取向与阐释:韦伯被忽视的概率论与社会理论的未来
IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Pub Date : 2022-03-21 DOI: 10.1177/07352751221084712
Michael Strand, Omar Lizardo
The image of Max Weber as an “interpretivist” cultural theorist of webs of significance that people use to cope with a meaningless world reigns largely unquestioned today. This article presents a different image of Weber’s sociology, where meaning does not transport actors over an abyss of meaninglessness but rather helps them navigate a world of Chance. Retrieving this concept from Weber’s late writings, we argue that the fundamental basis of the orders sociologists seek to understand is not chaos. Action is rendered interpretable, rather, to the extent persons orient themselves to possibilities and probabilities, which remain real but unknowable. In this framework, interpretation and probability are allies, not antagonists. Weber’s systematic use of the probabilistic notion of Chance as a central resource for concept formation and sociological explanation seriously challenges current understandings of probability as a purely statistical, atheoretical concern. We outline the conceptual difference it makes when basic categories of sociology are understood as rooted in Chance, and we point to the larger implications of Weber’s probabilism for contemporary debates around issues of prediction, action, and interpretation.
马克斯·韦伯(Max Weber)是一位“解释主义者”文化理论家,他拥有人们用来应对无意义世界的意义之网,这一形象在今天基本上是毋庸置疑的。这篇文章呈现了韦伯社会学的一个不同形象,在那里,意义并没有把行动者带过无意义的深渊,而是帮助他们驾驭一个充满机遇的世界。从韦伯后期的著作中检索到这一概念,我们认为社会学家寻求理解的秩序的根本基础不是混乱。行动是可解释的,相反,在某种程度上,人们将自己定位于可能性和概率,这些可能性和概率仍然是真实的,但不可知。在这个框架下,解释和概率是盟友,而不是对手。韦伯系统地使用机会的概率概念作为概念形成和社会学解释的中心资源,这严重挑战了目前对概率作为一种纯粹的统计、数学问题的理解。我们概述了当社会学的基本类别被理解为植根于Chance时所产生的概念差异,并指出了韦伯概率论对当代围绕预测、行动和解释问题的辩论的更大影响。
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引用次数: 1
Dueling with Dual-Process Models: Cognition, Creativity, and Context 应对双重过程模型:认知、创造力和语境
IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Pub Date : 2022-02-22 DOI: 10.1177/07352751221088919
G. Brett
Sociologists increasingly draw on dual-process models of cognition to account for the ways context, cognition, and action interrelate. Drawing from 40 interviews with improvisers and observations from improvisational theater, I find that dual-process model scholarship is limited in three respects: It does not consider how cognition operates in situations where order and disruption are concurrent, it fails to realize there is interindividual variation in cognitive processing, and it underestimates the creativity emerging through automatic processes. Interactions in improv contain elements of both order and disruption, and they place demands on automatic and deliberate cognition simultaneously. Improvisers respond to these competing demands through either automatic or deliberate thinking dispositions, which are engendered through explicit instruction, practical experience, and artistic commitments. These dispositions, in turn, shape creative decision-making, predicting interindividual differences in how improvisers respond to contingencies on stage. I conclude by discussing the implications for culture, cognition, and action.
社会学家越来越多地利用认知的双重过程模型来解释上下文、认知和行动之间的相互关系。从对即兴演奏者的40次采访和即兴戏剧的观察中,我发现双过程模型学术在三个方面是有限的:它没有考虑认知在秩序和破坏同时发生的情况下是如何运作的,它没有意识到认知过程中存在个体间的差异,它低估了通过自动化过程产生的创造力。即兴表演中的互动包含秩序和破坏元素,它们同时要求自动和深思熟虑的认知。即兴演奏者通过自动或深思熟虑的思维倾向来回应这些相互竞争的需求,这些思维倾向是通过明确的指导、实践经验和艺术承诺产生的。这些倾向反过来又塑造了创造性的决策,预测了即兴演奏者在舞台上应对突发事件的方式上的个体差异。最后,我讨论了对文化、认知和行动的影响。
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引用次数: 6
Inequality without Groups: Contemporary Theories of Categories, Intersectional Typicality, and the Disaggregation of Difference 没有群体的不平等:范畴的当代理论,交叉典型性,和差异的分解
IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/07352751221076863
Ellis P. Monk
The study of social inequality and stratification (e.g., ethnoracial and gender) has long been at the core of sociology and the social sciences. In this article, I argue that certain tendencies have become entrenched in our dominant paradigm that leave many researchers pursuing coarse-grained analyses of how difference relates to inequality. Centrally, despite the importance of categories and categorization for how researchers study social inequality, contemporary (as opposed to classical) theories of categories are poorly integrated into conventional research. I contend that the widespread and often unquestioned use of state categories as categories of analysis reinforces these tendencies. Using research on colorism as an inspiration, I highlight several components of what I call the infracategorical model of inequality, which urges researchers to disaggregate difference by shifting our focus from membership in (nominal) categories to the cues of categories, membership in subcategories, and perceived typicality.
长期以来,对社会不平等和分层(如种族和性别)的研究一直是社会学和社会科学的核心。在这篇文章中,我认为某些趋势已经在我们的主导范式中根深蒂固,这使得许多研究人员对差异如何与不平等相关进行粗粒度分析。集中地说,尽管类别和分类对研究人员研究社会不平等的方式很重要,但当代(与经典相反)的类别理论很少融入传统研究。我认为,广泛且经常毫无疑问地使用国家类别作为分析类别,强化了这些趋势。以对色彩主义的研究为灵感,我强调了我所称的不平等亚范畴模型的几个组成部分,该模型敦促研究人员通过将我们的重点从(名义)类别的成员转移到类别的线索、子类别的成员和感知的典型性来分解差异。
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引用次数: 31
Aesthetic Style: How Material Objects Structure an Institutional Field 美学风格:物质对象如何构成制度场域
IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/07352751221076864
G. Adler, Daniel DellaPosta, Jane Lankes
How does material culture matter for institutions? Material objects are increasingly prominent in sociological research, but current studies offer limited insight for how material objects matter to institutional processes. We build on sociological insights to theorize aesthetic style, a shared pattern of material object presence and usage among a cluster of organizations in an institutional field. We use formal relational methods and a survey of material objects from religious congregations to uncover the aesthetic styles that are part of the “logics of god” in the United States’ Christian religious field. We argue aesthetic styles help structure an institutional field by spanning objects’ meanings across space and time, stabilizing objects’ authority, and demarcating symbolic boundaries. Our research provides a conceptual tool for understanding how objects bridge the material and symbolic dimensions of institutions and a methodological example for examining the meaning of objects across numerous organizations in an institutional field.
物质文化对机构有何影响?物质对象在社会学研究中日益突出,但目前的研究对物质对象对制度过程的影响提供的见解有限。我们建立在社会学见解的基础上,将美学风格理论化,这是一种在制度领域中组织集群中物质对象存在和使用的共享模式。我们运用形式关系的方法和对宗教集会的实物的调查来揭示美国基督教宗教领域中作为“上帝逻辑”一部分的美学风格。我们认为,审美风格通过跨越空间和时间跨越对象的意义,稳定对象的权威,划定符号边界,帮助构建一个制度领域。我们的研究提供了一个概念性的工具,用于理解对象如何在机构的物质和符号维度之间架起桥梁,并提供了一个方法上的例子,用于检查机构领域中众多组织中对象的意义。
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引用次数: 6
Can Habitus Explain Individual Particularities? Critically Appreciating the Operationalization of Relational Logic in Field Theory 习惯能解释个体的特殊性吗?批判地评价场理论中关系逻辑的可操作性
IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Pub Date : 2022-01-28 DOI: 10.1177/07352751221075645
Sourabh Singh
Bourdieu’s concept of habitus claims to solve the problem of the individual/society duality. However, the concept of habitus appears to be inadequate to explain the idiosyncratic features of individual field actors’ practices. In this article, I argue that to explain the particularity of individual habitus, we must appreciate the operationalization of relational logic in field theory. I further argue that individuals learn to prediscursively identify certain types of practices as meaningful for a given field position (and not others) because of their embodied experiences of movements within the historically specific relational structure of the field. Thus, the same individual can exhibit multiple and even contradictory practices depending on the person’s relational position in the field. I illustrate this insight by discussing the political habitus of the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.
布迪厄的习惯观主张解决个体/社会二元性问题。然而,习惯的概念似乎不足以解释个别领域行为者实践的特质特征。在本文中,我认为要解释个体习性的特殊性,我们必须理解场理论中关系逻辑的操作化。我进一步认为,个人学会了预先话语地识别某些类型的实践对给定的领域位置(而不是其他领域)有意义,因为他们在该领域的历史特定关系结构中对运动的具体化经验。因此,同一个人可以表现出多种甚至矛盾的做法,这取决于他在该领域的关系地位。我通过讨论印度首任总理贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁(Jawaharlal Nehru)的政治习惯来说明这一见解。
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引用次数: 0
The Double Meaning of Money 金钱的双重含义
IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Pub Date : 2022-01-10 DOI: 10.1177/07352751211071121
Galit Ailon
How does monetization affect interpersonal relationships? Drawing on social phenomenology, I argue that an answer must account for money’s symbolic dualism: On the one hand, as Zelizer has shown, money is differentially earmarked according to the interpersonal relationships it flows through. On the other hand, in everyday life, people tend to associate money with cold impersonality. Money’s dual association with both the interpersonal and the impersonal imbues the relationships it flows through with a sense of risk, which I call “the risk of lost meanings.” Analyzing the implications of this sense of risk, I argue that it turns trust into a relational preoccupation and constrains intersubjective experience. The risk of lost meanings may motivate risk-avoidance strategies, but these strategies are largely counterproductive. Shedding new light on a long-standing debate in the sociology of money, I discuss the implications of this argument for analyses of monetary developments and local currencies.
货币化如何影响人际关系?根据社会现象学,我认为一个答案必须解释金钱的象征二元论:一方面,正如泽利泽所表明的,金钱是根据其流动的人际关系而不同地指定的。另一方面,在日常生活中,人们倾向于将金钱与冷酷的非个人化联系在一起。金钱与人际和非个人的双重联系给它所经历的关系注入了一种风险感,我称之为“失去意义的风险”。通过分析这种风险感的含义,我认为它将信任变成了一种关系上的专注,并限制了主体间的体验。失去意义的风险可能会激发风险规避策略,但这些策略在很大程度上适得其反。我讨论了这一论点对货币发展和本币分析的影响,为货币社会学中长期存在的争论提供了新的视角。
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引用次数: 0
Democracy’s Autonomy Dilemma: Whistleblowing and the Politics of Disclosure 民主的自治困境:告密和披露政治
IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Pub Date : 2021-11-20 DOI: 10.1177/07352751211054874
T. Olesen
Democracy has been characterized from its outset by an autonomy dilemma. On the one hand, we think it vital that organizations work according to their own codes and logics. On the other hand, we insist that autonomy must never be complete, that citizens have a right to transgress boundaries to expose wrongdoing. With their insider position in the organizations where wrongdoing occurs, whistleblowers hold a unique place within this democratic politics of disclosure, which has so far not been sociologically theorized. This article takes four steps to address this lacuna: First, I situate whistleblowing within the democratic landslides that took place during the 1960s and 1970s; second, I disentangle it from practices such as journalism and activism; third, I argue that whistleblowers are particularly well positioned to detect normalized wrongdoing within organizations; and fourth, I discuss how whistleblowers’ most pronounced effect is the disclosure of gray areas that have gone under the democratic radar.
民主从一开始就以自治困境为特征。一方面,我们认为组织按照自己的代码和逻辑工作是至关重要的。另一方面,我们坚持自治绝不能是完全的,公民有权越界揭露不法行为。由于举报人在不法行为发生的组织中处于内部位置,因此在这种民主的信息披露政治中占据着独特的地位,迄今为止,这种政治还没有从社会学的角度进行理论化。本文将采取四个步骤来解决这一空白:首先,我将举报置于20世纪60年代和70年代发生的民主滑坡之中;其次,我把它从新闻和行动主义等实践中分离出来;第三,我认为,举报人在发现组织内部的正常不法行为方面处于特别有利的地位;第四,我讨论了举报人最显著的影响是如何揭露了民主雷达下的灰色地带。
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引用次数: 2
The Sociology of Personal Identification 个人认同社会学
IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Pub Date : 2021-11-20 DOI: 10.1177/07352751211055771
Jordan Brensinger, Gil Eyal
Systems drawing on databases of personal information increasingly shape life experiences and outcomes across a range of settings, from consumer credit and policing to immigration, health, and employment. How do these systems identify and reidentify individuals as the same unique persons and differentiate them from others? This article advances a general sociological theory of personal identification that extends and improves earlier work by theorists like Goffman, Mauss, Foucault, and Deleuze. Drawing on examples from an original ethnographic study of identity theft and a wide range of social scientific literature, our theory treats personal identification as a historically evolving organizational practice. In doing so, it offers a shared language, a set of concepts for sensitizing researchers’ attention to important aspects of personal identification that often get overlooked while also facilitating comparisons across historical periods, cultural contexts, substantive domains, and technological mediums.
利用个人信息数据库的系统越来越多地在一系列环境中塑造生活经历和结果,从消费信贷和警务到移民、健康和就业。这些系统如何将个体识别和再识别为相同的独特个体,并将其与其他人区分开来?本文提出了个人认同的一般社会学理论,扩展并改进了戈夫曼、莫斯、福柯和德勒兹等理论家的早期工作。我们的理论借鉴了一项关于身份盗窃的原始民族志研究和广泛的社会科学文献中的例子,将个人身份认同视为一种历史上不断发展的组织实践。在这样做的过程中,它提供了一种共享的语言,一套概念,使研究人员对个人认同的重要方面的关注更加敏感,这些方面经常被忽视,同时也促进了历史时期、文化背景、实质性领域和技术媒介的比较。
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引用次数: 4
Domesticating Danger: Coping Codes and Symbolic Security amid Violent Organized Crime in Mexico 国内化危险:墨西哥暴力有组织犯罪中的应对准则和象征性安全
IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Pub Date : 2021-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/07352751211054121
Ana Villarreal
Sociologists have long debated how labels are deployed to construct and exaggerate social threats but have yet to consider their use to cope with danger. I draw on qualitative fieldwork conducted in the midst of a gruesome turf war in Monterrey, Mexico, to conceptualize coping codes. These defensive labels emerge in everyday conversation and allow its users to allude to threatening actors without being explicit—in this case, violent organized crime labeled malitos, or little evil guys. They emerge from below and in relation to top-bottom labeling processes they can both challenge and reproduce. Coping codes provide symbolic security by minimizing danger, although at a cost when also used to draw symbolic boundaries between the living and the dead “accused of being into something.” The case calls for further research on coping codes in dangerous contexts, particularly at the onset of unsettled times when people tend to minimize rupture.
社会学家长期以来一直在争论如何使用标签来构建和夸大社会威胁,但尚未考虑使用标签来应对危险。我借鉴了在墨西哥蒙特雷一场可怕的地盘争夺战中进行的定性实地调查,以概念化应对准则。这些防御性标签出现在日常对话中,允许用户在不明确的情况下暗指威胁行为者——在这种情况下,暴力有组织犯罪被贴上了malitos或小邪恶分子的标签。它们从下面出现,相对于自上而下的标记过程,它们既可以挑战也可以繁殖。应对代码通过最大限度地减少危险来提供象征性的安全,尽管在被用来划定“被指控参与某件事”的生者和死者之间的象征性界限时也是有代价的。该案件呼吁对危险环境下的应对代码进一步研究,特别是在人们倾向于将破裂降至最低的不稳定时期。
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