As a comment on the debate between Dave Elder-Vass and Leigh Price, I propose a dialogue between Bhaskar and Habermas. If we could introduce critical realism into critical theory, we might be able ...

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Immanente Kritik: Elemente einer Theorie sozialer Praktiken

The normative foundations of critical realism: a comment on Dave Elder-Vass and Leigh Price

This paper distinguishes between two main questions regarding the notion of privacy: “What is privacy?” and “Why do/should we value privacy?” In developing a social-ontological recognitional model of privacy (SORM), it gives an answer to the first question According to the SORM, Privacy is a second order quality of roles within social practices It is a function of who is or should be recognized as a “standard authority” Enjoying standard authority means to have the right to interpret and contest role behavior and role obligations within a specific practice (first level), as well as evaluate the normative structure, the fundamental practice norms as well as the roles and their status (second level) The SORM utilizes the concept of standard authority to explicate privacy with regard to two categories that capture the relevant phenomena of privacy: decisional and informational privacy Within a practice, an actor is said to have decisional privacy if she as a BCR does not (or does not have to) recognize bearers of accidental roles as standard authorities Vice versa, an actor is said to enjoy informational privacy if all other BCRs (and especially data collecting actors) recognize her as a standard authority Additionally, the requirement of mutual recognition by the practice participants as standard authorities introduces a “weak normativity” into the theory, which can be used to identify deficient privacy arrangements within practices

A practice–theoretical account of privacy

In response to an impasse, articulated in the late 1980s, the cognitive capacities of ordinary people assumed central place in contemporary critical social theory. The participants’ perspective gai...

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Critique and cognitive capacities: Towards an action-oriented model:

Against common understanding of ideology as being a specific form of knowledge or cognition, lately there is a rediscovering of the notion of ideology as practice. In these approaches, ideology is ...

Ideologies as false communicative practices

This article investigates the meaning and role of social critique in the social sciences. This form of theorizing has always been a significant part of the social sciences. Due to the scientific id...

Immanente Kritik: Elemente einer Theorie sozialer Praktiken

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The normative foundations of critical realism: a comment on Dave Elder-Vass and Leigh Price

A practice–theoretical account of privacy

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Ideologies as false communicative practices

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