Pub Date : 2022-01-11DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.2.1.02
B. Temple
Biographical approaches are increasingly being used with people who speak and write a range of languages. Even when an account is originally spoken, the final version usually ends up written in the language used by the majority of the population. Researchers have shown that adopting a language that is not the one an account was given in may change how someone is perceived. Yet little has been written by sociologists using biographical approaches about the implications of moving accounts across languages. Researchers within translation and interpretation studies are increasingly tackling issues of representation across languages and developing concepts that can usefully be applied in biographical research. They question the assumption that accounts can be unproblematically transferred across languages and argue for strategies and concepts that “foreignise” texts and challenge the baseline of the target, usually for these writers, English language. However, these concepts bring issues of their own. In this article I examine these developments and give an example from my own cross language research that show that these concepts can begin to open up debates about meaning and representation.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.4.1.14
Waldemar Dymarczyk
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.4.1.11
Lucija Mulej
This paper addresses the theory of knowledge in relativistic terms of Paul Feyerabend, stressing the importance of personal involvement in the research and theorizing. Since the topic is a constant and widely accepted premise the author is insisting that it has been actually ignored in the sociology and philosophy of science. It is apparent in discursive form, neglected in actual consequences for science in general. Defending the thesis of relativism had remained unacknowledged by the general scientific community. Biographies of mavericks and their struggle and exclusion from scientific community etc. had been constant in the history of science. Is science nowadays able to accept criticism and implement arguments of knowledge beyond the institutionalized standards? Throughout this article we argue that personal involvement creates biased scientific facts; acknowledging and applying tacit knowledge we move beyond personal involvement and create appropriate interpretations of facts and phenomena under investigation, where we reconsider the construction of facts and personal beliefs, knowing that our fields of expertise are incommensurable.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.3.3.02
Sabine Chalvon-Demersay
How can we understand the adaptations of literary classics made for French television? We simultaneously analyzed the works and the context in which they were produced in order to relate the moral configurations that emerge in the stories to activities carried out by identifiable members of the production team, in specific, empirically observable circumstances. This empirical approach to the constitution of the moral panorama in which characters evolve rejects the idea of the pure autonomy of ideological contents, suggesting instead a study of the way normative demands and professional ethics are combined in practice, thus combining a sociology of characters and a sociology of professionals and showing how professional priorities influence production choices. This detaches the moral question from the philosophical horizon it is associated with in order to make it an object of empirial study. Adopting this perspective produces unexpected findings. Observation shows that the moral landscape in which characters are located is neither stable, autonomous, transparent, or consensual. It is instead caught up in material logics, constrained by temporal dynamics, and dependent on professional coordination. It is traversed by tensions between professional logics, and logics of regulation.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.3.3.06
Celia Bense Ferreira Alves
This paper shows how conducting the ethnographic study of a theater hall and company can help define theater activity. Once the aesthetic of the social organization is set apart from the proper division of labor, theater appears as a collective activity which requires the cooperation of eight groups playing different social roles. The cooperation modes rest on a meshing of direct or indirect services for the actors who carry out the core task of performing. This specific organization of work around a central group is what makes the activity artistic. Simultaneously, the service relation offers the possibility for some categories to bring their relationship with actors closer to a state of symmetry and sometimes reverse asymmetry. As a status enhancing opportunity, service relationship for actors also directly or indirectly provide the grounds for participant commitment and thus guarantee long-lasting operation for the theatrical organization.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.3.3.07
Marie-Pierre Gibert
Focusing on the work of Yemenite “ethnic” dance companies in Israel, this article aims to understand how issues such as a shift in collective representations come to be invested into dance practices. In other words, it discusses how artistic creation and identity reconfigurations happen to associate in a dance form, and how an ethnographic study of dance practices and their contexts of performance may be a valuable way of accessing the dynamics of self-positioning of a group within the surrounding society. Linking together “classical” ethnography, analysis of dance products, and socio-political contextualisation, the present analysis shows that the articulation of two apparently contradictory ways of building these companies’ repertoire allows Yemenite dancers, choreographers, and also internal audience, to assume in one single dance form a sense of “being Yemenite” whilst not giving up the national dimension of their Israeli identity.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.3.3.03
Basile Zimmermann
To do ethnography implies dealing with the agency of technical objectsi. The aim of this paper is to share a few ideas on how to tackle the one of vinyls in the particular activity that is the mix of a disc jockey. To do so, I first provide a general picture of the work of Xiao Deng, a Chinese disc jockey I observed in Beijing between 2003 and 2004. Then I present three observations of specific events that occured during that period which, I believe, bring into light not only some specificities of the agency of the technical object “vinyl” but also useful information about how one can take into account the agency of objects when doing ethnography.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.3.3.09
Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas
“Parenting and Inclusive Education” written by Chrissie Rogers is an exceptional sociological work. It was constructed on the basis of narrative interviews (intimate stories) conducted with 24 parents of children with special educational needs (SEN). The text treats about parental experiences, especially the experiences emerging in parents’ and children’s interaction with British educational system. Roger’s interviewees – white British citizens from working and middle class were bringing up 30 children (4-19 years old), some of the informants had two or more disabled children. The level of disability was differentiated from dyslexia, dypraxia, AD/HD through epilepsy, hearing and visual impairment to Down’s syndrome and autistic spectrum. Chrissie Roger’s work gives the opportunity to follow her sociological reflections on British educational system based on the assumption of social inclusion. We consider the issues of social policy and at the same time we look at the social world with the eyes of the person who has experienced the mothering of a disabled child – the author’s daughter was also diagnosed a “SEN” child. The assumption of Roger’s was to give contribution to the debate about parenting/mothering, impairment and education, “to create a sociological space to discuss in depth issues about dealing with difficulty and, specifically, learning disability (both at a theoretical and experiential level) (p. 3). The author treats the private world depicted in the narrations (“intimate windows to the lives lived”) “as emotional response to the social world in relating to the self and well being” (p.4). She mentions C.W. Mills and feminist researchers and states that experiencing disability is the result of social construction within a social model of disability, which means that the parents not only experience the everyday difficulties resulting from the child’s impairment but also experience the impairment as a social construct.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.4.1.07
C. Pearce
Informed by the developments in autoethnography, narrative analysis and biographical sociology this paper seeks to affirm that understanding our narrative enables self-understanding and more importantly enables the understanding of others. Using an autoethnographic approach this paper explores the rupture in self and family identity following two traumatic events: the onset of a chronic illness (Multiple Sclerosis) and the death of a mother. It is the story of the life of my mother, who suffered with MS for 9 years and the story of my sister and myself, who cared for her throughout our childhood up to her death in 2000. The rupture in identity that we suffered interrupted the world in which we lived and exposed the contents of our individual and collective world(s). The themes that emerged from the narratives in this study suggest rupture is experienced as a movement of transgression that leads to movements of regression and progression.
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