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The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Essays on the ‘Pragmatic Sociology of Critique
TL;DR: Boltanski is widely regarded as one of the most influential French sociologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as mentioned in this paper, and is a leading figure of the "pragmatic" tradition within contemporary social and political thought.
Abstract: [Extract] Luc Boltanski is widely regarded as one of the most influential French sociologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is one of the leading figures of the ‘pragmatic’ tradition within contemporary social and political thought. More specifically, he is – along with Laurent Thevenot – one of the founding figures of an approach that he himself characterizes as the ‘pragmatic sociology of critique’.
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TL;DR: This article examined what arrested individuals expect from the police, and the moral grammars they rely on to evaluate police behavior, and found that respondents care about two different moral dimensions in policing.
Abstract: This paper examines what arrested individuals expect from the police, and the moral grammars they rely on to evaluate police behavior. Drawing on interviews with recently arrested suspects in the Cleveland city jail, we analyze the moral grammars, or common worlds, that residents invoke to reflect on interactions with law enforcement. We find that respondents care about two different moral dimensions in policing. At one level, they want police to treat them with civility and politeness, and to respect their rights—thereby treating them equally with other residents in the city. Yet at a second level, they want police to show care and empathy for their local situation, and to recognize that policing the neighborhoods in which they live is different than policing other parts of the city. As a result, we find that residents who are arrested by the police deploy two orders of worth: a civic order, grounded in fairness, legal rules, equality, and civic belonging in the polity; and a domestic order, based on a politics of community and difference, emphasizing empathy, local knowledge, and personal experience. We demonstrate how individuals assess and test the moral promise of institutions to offer moral recognition, redress, and repair.
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: Hirschman as discussed by the authors was a studierter Okonom, Widerstandskampfer im faschistischen Europa and Praktiker der Entwicklungspolitik, who in seiner spateren akademischen Laufbahn die disziplinaren Grenzen zwischen Okonomie, Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie beflissentlich ubertreten.
Abstract: Albert O. Hirschman gehort zu den Wissenschaftlern, die sich auf erfrischende Weise nicht von disziplinaren Grenzen aufhalten lassen. Als studierter Okonom, Widerstandskampfer im faschistischen Europa und Praktiker der Entwicklungspolitik hat er in seiner spateren akademischen Laufbahn die disziplinaren Grenzen zwischen Okonomie, Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie beflissentlich ubertreten.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a model developed by pragmatic sociologists for describing social issues in society that could assist researchers in describing the complex reality of the anti-doping issue is presented.
Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to highlight the interest of using diverse sociological approaches and models for studying anti-doping (developed outside the epistemic community of researchers working on doping) and to point out the sociological interest of the doping issue for social sciences. First, we will present a model developed by pragmatic sociologists for describing social issues in society that could assist researchers in describing the complex reality of the anti-doping issue. The model proposes to examine the ways in which axiology, devices and realities are articulated in anti-doping related criticism and the existing circulation between the six social logics described in it. Its use could allow researchers to apprehend local and global transformations in the system and the articulations between these two levels. Second, we will resume the most relevant results of a research that analysed the prevention activity using an approach of work sociologists. A part of this research sought to identify the meaning that people working in prevention gave to their activity. The received answers were manifold; five ways of “doing prevention” were identified, to which institutions were committed differently. The described panorama showed a dispute where the debate as such was not tabled and nobody seemed able to definitively close the dispute, not even the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Finally, an ongoing research will be presented. It focuses on the procedures-based management implemented by WADA and aims to compare its development with the implementation of similar management systems by other institutions. The research could allow us identifying possible related risks, for example, the loss of the pleasure of working, the emergence of fear or the increasing work pressure. We hope the paper will encourage other social researchers to renew the usual theoretical approaches.
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01 Jan 2021
TL;DR: A brief historical overview of the recent history of the sociology of Islam can be found in this paper, with a modest proposal for the integration of the study of Islam into the main body of comparative and historical sociology paying attention to the legacies of Marshall G. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam, Karl Jasper's work in the so-called Axial Age religions, and Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution.
Abstract: The chapter provides a brief historical overview of the recent history of the sociology of Islam. Unlike the historical and anthropological study of Islam, the sociology of Islam had a late start around the middle of the last century. The study of Islam has been controversial being heavily influenced by political events in the West such as 9/11, the invasion of Afghanistan and the rise of ISIS. Much of the debate has been dominated by Edward Said’s influential Orientalism (1978). Although Said’s work offered an important critique of western understanding of the Orient, his focus was primarily on the humanities rather than social science. I call more recent scholarship ‘Post-Orientalism’, because it includes the study Islamic communities in the West and not only the Middle East and Asia. Indeed Islam is now studied as a global religion. However, much of the sociological research has been concentreated on examples of Islamophobia. I refer to this research as advocacy rather than science in part because it obscures the many examples of successful Muslim communites in the secular West. I conclude with a modest proposal for the integration of the study of Islam into the main body of comparative and historical sociology paying attention to the legacies of Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam, Karl Jasper’s work in the so-called Axial Age religions, and Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution.
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01 Jan 2018