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Justice in reality: overcoming moral relativism in Luc Boltanski’s pragmatic sociology of critique

Jacob Didia Jensen
- 11 May 2018 - 
- Vol. 19, Iss: 3, pp 268-285
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The pragmatic sociology of critique developed by French sociologist Luc Boltanski in cooperation with such authors as Laurent Thevenot and Eve Chiapello has received increasing attention in recent years as discussed by the authors.
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In recent years, the pragmatic sociology of critique developed by French sociologist Luc Boltanski in cooperation with such authors as Laurent Thevenot and Eve Chiapello has received increasing att...

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Meaningful Moments at Work : Frames Evoked by In-House and Consultancy Designers

TL;DR: In this paper, the activities and perceptions of designers in different organizational contexts are investigated, focusing on design as a competitive advantage for companies, but we know relatively little of the activities, perceptions, and activities of designers.
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The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Chapter Outline, in The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Essays on the ‘Pragmatic Sociology of Critique’

TL;DR: A brief summary of the key themes, issues, and controversies covered in each of the following chapters is provided in this paper, along with a discussion of the main issues and controversies.
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New Technologies Supporting the Shift to User-Led Approaches in Social Services: A Study of the Implementation of Baromètre

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the implementation of user-led approaches in the field of social services and call for significant change in social service culture and practices, and propose a user-driven approach for social services.
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The self-society duality in volunteer tourism: An analytical framework for the (post-)pandemic era

TL;DR: In this article , the authors show that tourists comprise narratives that intertwine the self-serving aspects of volunteering and multiple beliefs about the common good, and propose an analytical framework through which volunteer tourists' moral views and the relation between self-service and society-serving in volunteer tourism can be explored.
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Differentiating natures, connecting environments pragmatic sociology and the emergence of green justifications

TL;DR: This paper examined ecological justifications in French pragmatic sociology, developed by Boltanski and Thévenot, situating it to discussions about materiality, and examined organic agriculture as a case of green critique that has brought ecology to the fore.
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Orders of worth and the moral conceptions of health in global politics

TL;DR: The work of as discussed by the authors analyzes the contested concept of global health through the lens of orders of worth, which are moral narratives that connect visions of universal humankind to ideas about moral worth and deficiency.
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Retfærdiggørelse, ideologi, kritik

Niels Albertsen
- 21 Jul 2009 - 
TL;DR: Albertsen et al. as mentioned in this paper argued that critical sociology, which approaches social actors critically in search of hidden explanations behind their backs, should be replaced by sociology of critique, which investigates the critical competencies of the social actors themselves.
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Luc Boltanski: His Life and Work – An Overview

Simon Susen
TL;DR: Boltanski is widely regarded as one of the most influential French sociologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as discussed by the authors, and is a leading figure of the "pragmatic" tradition within contemporary social and political thought.
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Pierre Bourdieu and the Early Luc Boltanski (1960–1975): Collective Ethos and Individual Difference

Derek Robbins
TL;DR: Bourdieu and Passeron's La Reproduction as Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture as discussed by the authors was the product of the collective activity of a group of researchers and demonstrated the continuous interplay between theory and research, as well as the overcoming of the division between 'thinkers' and'researchers' which was a major failing of sociology as a science.