The paper is part of a research on the evaluation of participatory practices and engagement activities of the donors of the Distance Support Service (DSS) of the Association Famiglie Nuove (Afn) Onlus. The theoretical framework of the survey is based on the Positive Thinking Approaches, a family of approaches that have in common the idea that «we learn more from success than from failure». In this direction, the use of an evaluative perspective open to the «discovery» of successes, aimed at identifying the main changes in the DSS sector (such as relational proximity and openness towards the educational community), made it possible to build the steps of the research in a participated way, by interacting the needs of the operators with the needs for change expressed by the donors involved in the survey.
{"title":"Positive Thinking Evaluation e Survey Research. Una proposta di contaminazione","authors":"Veronica Lo Presti, Maria Dentale","doi":"10.3280/sr2022-127002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sr2022-127002","url":null,"abstract":"The paper is part of a research on the evaluation of participatory practices and engagement activities of the donors of the Distance Support Service (DSS) of the Association Famiglie Nuove (Afn) Onlus. The theoretical framework of the survey is based on the Positive Thinking Approaches, a family of approaches that have in common the idea that «we learn more from success than from failure». In this direction, the use of an evaluative perspective open to the «discovery» of successes, aimed at identifying the main changes in the DSS sector (such as relational proximity and openness towards the educational community), made it possible to build the steps of the research in a participated way, by interacting the needs of the operators with the needs for change expressed by the donors involved in the survey.","PeriodicalId":52504,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42645991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The author synthesizes the main pillars of her research agenda: marginality, deviance, and social classes. Her relationship with Bourdieu is carefully explored, together with her leading role of Bourdieusian scholar in the South American academic field. The interlocking of theory and practice is advocated, stressing the significance of political engagement. The broad, trans-contextual applicability of Bourdieu's methodology is also emphasized, and so is the necessity to address the specificity of local research contexts.
{"title":"My Work with and from Bourdieu: Tools, Stakes and Commitment","authors":"Alicia B. Gutiérrez","doi":"10.3280/sr2021-126009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sr2021-126009","url":null,"abstract":"The author synthesizes the main pillars of her research agenda: marginality, deviance, and social classes. Her relationship with Bourdieu is carefully explored, together with her leading role of Bourdieusian scholar in the South American academic field. The interlocking of theory and practice is advocated, stressing the significance of political engagement. The broad, trans-contextual applicability of Bourdieu's methodology is also emphasized, and so is the necessity to address the specificity of local research contexts.","PeriodicalId":52504,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49497726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This self-examination is programmatically centered on language, examined by the author at the same time as a medium of cross-cultural communication (her work as PB's translator), the traces laid down that betray one's background (the «undefinable» accent that marks her polyglotism), and a form of domination (English linguistic imperialism in contemporary academia). Almost in self-help terms, Bourdieu's sociological theory is interpreted as an antidote to alienation, crucial to reappropriate one's own voice
{"title":"Lost and Gained in Translation","authors":"A. Prieur","doi":"10.3280/sr2021-126006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sr2021-126006","url":null,"abstract":"This self-examination is programmatically centered on language, examined by the author at the same time as a medium of cross-cultural communication (her work as PB's translator), the traces laid down that betray one's background (the «undefinable» accent that marks her polyglotism), and a form of domination (English linguistic imperialism in contemporary academia). Almost in self-help terms, Bourdieu's sociological theory is interpreted as an antidote to alienation, crucial to reappropriate one's own voice","PeriodicalId":52504,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43527456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presentazione del fascicolo","authors":"A. C. della Redazione","doi":"10.3280/sr2021-126001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sr2021-126001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52504,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49444902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iso's article painstakingly reviews his research on the epistemology of PB's sociology. His biographical experience (especially the transition across three different countries, Japan, the US, and France) is presented and interpreted by using bourdieusian categories. The author argues that Bourdieu's conception of reflexivity should not remain pure speculation but has to be concretely put into practice, with regard to everyday life situations
{"title":"Bourdieusian Self-Analyses as a Japanese Sociologist","authors":"N. Iso","doi":"10.3280/sr2021-126011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sr2021-126011","url":null,"abstract":"Iso's article painstakingly reviews his research on the epistemology of PB's sociology. His biographical experience (especially the transition across three different countries, Japan, the US, and France) is presented and interpreted by using bourdieusian categories. The author argues that Bourdieu's conception of reflexivity should not remain pure speculation but has to be concretely put into practice, with regard to everyday life situations","PeriodicalId":52504,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46289405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gerardo Ienna, C. Lombardo, L. Sabetta, M. Santoro
This essay analyzes one of the major expressions of the sociological critique of sociological reasoning, the objectivation of the subject of objectivation, who should analyze the sociohistorical conditions of possibility of the very act of objectivation. Though Bourdieu's invitation to a reflexive sociology of sociology has not been widely accepted and put into practice, the authors argue that its actual application actually brings about consistent payoff: this special issue represents but one installment. Reclaiming a place for socio-analysis, this paper highlights how this activity can produce a cognitive difference in the making of sociological research, insofar as its genesis and development are defined by the sharing of a specific thought style, existing within and because of an intersubjective framework.
{"title":"Sketch for a Sociology of Sociological Self-Analyses","authors":"Gerardo Ienna, C. Lombardo, L. Sabetta, M. Santoro","doi":"10.3280/sr2021-126002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sr2021-126002","url":null,"abstract":"This essay analyzes one of the major expressions of the sociological critique of sociological reasoning, the objectivation of the subject of objectivation, who should analyze the sociohistorical conditions of possibility of the very act of objectivation. Though Bourdieu's invitation to a reflexive sociology of sociology has not been widely accepted and put into practice, the authors argue that its actual application actually brings about consistent payoff: this special issue represents but one installment. Reclaiming a place for socio-analysis, this paper highlights how this activity can produce a cognitive difference in the making of sociological research, insofar as its genesis and development are defined by the sharing of a specific thought style, existing within and because of an intersubjective framework.","PeriodicalId":52504,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47252552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article develops a self-objectivation focused on the significance of intellectual fields and sub-fields in Spanish academia. The author richly documents his stay in France, dealing throughout the paper with many sociological issues: politically engaged research, Marxism, international mobility, economic crises, the linkage between sociology and philosophy. This self-analysis gives self- objectivation a political bend: such activity should involve entering proactively into the civil sphere, taking a politically committed stance.
{"title":"Between the End of Real Socialism and the Crisis of Capitalism: A bourdieusian Academic Experience","authors":"José Luis Moreno Pestaña","doi":"10.3280/sr2021-126007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sr2021-126007","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops a self-objectivation focused on the significance of intellectual fields and sub-fields in Spanish academia. The author richly documents his stay in France, dealing throughout the paper with many sociological issues: politically engaged research, Marxism, international mobility, economic crises, the linkage between sociology and philosophy. This self-analysis gives self- objectivation a political bend: such activity should involve entering proactively into the civil sphere, taking a politically committed stance.","PeriodicalId":52504,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41472217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The author analyzes his contribution in introducing Bourdieu to the Anglophone world (and to the US in particular). By doing so, he presents the reader with an abundance of anecdotes designed to illustrate observations regarding intellectual autonomy, symbolic capitals, and the international circulation of sociological ideas. Self-analysis is viewed as a straightforward and blunt version of other standard, more euphemized, academic practices (like the introductory literature review that opens scientific papers): thus, it is also supposed to be a tool for writing better.
{"title":"From Paris to Boston: A Trajectory with Pierre Bourdieu","authors":"David L. Swartz","doi":"10.3280/sr2021-126008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sr2021-126008","url":null,"abstract":"The author analyzes his contribution in introducing Bourdieu to the Anglophone world (and to the US in particular). By doing so, he presents the reader with an abundance of anecdotes designed to illustrate observations regarding intellectual autonomy, symbolic capitals, and the international circulation of sociological ideas. Self-analysis is viewed as a straightforward and blunt version of other standard, more euphemized, academic practices (like the introductory literature review that opens scientific papers): thus, it is also supposed to be a tool for writing better.","PeriodicalId":52504,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41690544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay originally interprets self-objectivation as utterly exceptional liberty (and privilege) of sociological observers. The author touches upon several dimensions of her social identity. Starting with the process of downward mobility undergone by her family, she goes over private issues such as her loss of faith and marital dynamics (as well as political engagement and relationship with academic institutions), linking her existential course to certain broader topics in particular: e´migre´s' condition, split habitus, female subjugation, symbolic violence, interdisciplinarity.
{"title":"Social Ageing: Fragments of an Autoanalysis","authors":"Bridget Fowler","doi":"10.3280/sr2021-126003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sr2021-126003","url":null,"abstract":"This essay originally interprets self-objectivation as utterly exceptional liberty (and privilege) of sociological observers. The author touches upon several dimensions of her social identity. Starting with the process of downward mobility undergone by her family, she goes over private issues such as her loss of faith and marital dynamics (as well as political engagement and relationship with academic institutions), linking her existential course to certain broader topics in particular: e´migre´s' condition, split habitus, female subjugation, symbolic violence, interdisciplinarity.","PeriodicalId":52504,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47246851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This portrait of Bourdieu's laboratory in the early days describes the impact of the bourdieusian «tribe» on the author's social destiny, especially to his attempt to develop a reflexive political sociology that explores the intertwinement of culture, power, and knowledge. Repeatedly, he depicts himself as an outsider suspended between several (geographical, disciplinary, and intellectual) worlds. Without directly addressing the issue of self-objectivation, the author puts it into practice as sociogenesis of several elements: relationships, collaborations, interests, oppositions/attractions, position-taking, scientific success.
{"title":"Pierre Bourdieu as I Remember Him","authors":"Niilo. Kauppi","doi":"10.3280/sr2021-126005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sr2021-126005","url":null,"abstract":"This portrait of Bourdieu's laboratory in the early days describes the impact of the bourdieusian «tribe» on the author's social destiny, especially to his attempt to develop a reflexive political sociology that explores the intertwinement of culture, power, and knowledge. Repeatedly, he depicts himself as an outsider suspended between several (geographical, disciplinary, and intellectual) worlds. Without directly addressing the issue of self-objectivation, the author puts it into practice as sociogenesis of several elements: relationships, collaborations, interests, oppositions/attractions, position-taking, scientific success.","PeriodicalId":52504,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47163360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}