Generations Later: The Same Furious Passage of the Black Graduate Student

2022 ◽  
pp. 000276422110660
Author(s):  
Jalia Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Social World ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
White Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Informal Rules

In this article, the author relies on a narrative based format to explore the interactions between everyday race-making processes and the white space of academia. Recognizing the unique ways systems of power interact with their experiences in the social world, they chronicle their engagements detailing the pervasive ways rules of white space are placed. The article recognizes three informal rules of white space in academia: the accepted reification of white sociological thought; the acceptance of white professional standards; and the continued centering of white comfort.

Directions for Public Sociology: Novel Writing as a Creative Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashleigh Watson
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Work ◽  
Sociological Thought

This article presents a creative direction for public sociology: novel writing. Narrativity is embedded within much contemporary sociological work, and sociologists and novelists share a number of complementary approaches for understanding and interpreting the social world. This article argues that novel writing presents sociologists with a process and medium through which they can expand their work for a more public, engaging, affective, and panoramic sociology. Here, the historical development of sociological thought is considered as well as the recent progress of public sociology. Three key strengths of sociological novels are presented: promoting public sociology and interlocutor engagement; transforming knowledge exchange from mimetic to sympractic communication; and addressing issues of scope. Two recent sociological novels are discussed: Blue by Patricia Leavy and On The Cusp by David Buckingham, both published in 2015. Finally, two linked aspects for (thinking about) writing sociological fiction are explored: the concept of glocality and the methodology of ethnography. Employing creative mediums such as novels as public sociology may cultivate a wider, affective public engagement with significant academic ideas such as the sociological imagination. Sociological novels work to bring the local and global into dialogue, and may help achieve the scope and panoramic depth that sociology requires.

scholarly journals Diversidade, Imaterialidade e Globalização

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 163-184
Author(s):  
Artur André Lins
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social World ◽  
Cooperative System ◽  
Immaterial Labor ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Capital Humano ◽  
The Way

Resumo: Este ensaio pretende lidar com os problemas colocados à reflexão sociológica pelo processo de globalização, especificamente no contexto da segunda metade do século XX. Quais temas, objetos e conceitos que, desde então, desafiam a compreensão do mundo social? Em que medida o mundo contemporâneo se transformou e quais os impactos dessa transformação para a nossa reflexividade? Partindo dessas questões preliminares, o texto elaborado se estrutura em três principais partes: 1) primeiramente, argumenta-se sobre o contexto de surgimento das ciências sociais e a historicidade de suas categorias de análise e o modo como a mudança social, nesse caso, o processo de globalização, nos colocou em face de novos desafios para a reflexão sociológica; 2) posteriormente, procuramos pensar o processo de reestruturação do capital e do trabalho após 1970, colocando o problema posto pela noção de “trabalho imaterial” e “capital humano”; 3) posteriormente, nos dedicamos à compreensão do sistema cooperativo das Nações Unidas e o modo pelo qual, nesse contexto, se estabelecem tensões com a estrutura do Estado-nação, sobretudo a partir da emergência de um novo emblema sociológico: o discurso da diversidade. Palavras-chave: diversidade; imaterialidade; globalização; pensamento social. Abstract: This essay aims to deal with the problems placed to sociological thought by the globalization process, specifically in the context of the second half of the 20th century. What themes, objects and concepts have since challenged the understanding of the social world? To what extent has the contemporary world been transformed and what are the impacts of this transformation on our reflexivity? Based on these preliminary questions, this papper is structured by three main parts: 1) first, it argues about the context of the emergence of social sciences and the historicity of its categories of analysis and the way in which social change, particularly, the globalization process, has brought us new challenges  for sociological thought; 3) later, we try to think about the process of restructuring of capital and labor after 1970’s, facing the problem posed by the notion of “immaterial labor” and “human capital”; 2) afterwards, we dedicate ourselves to understanding the United Nations cooperative system and the way in which, in this context, tensions are established with the structure of the nation-state, especially from the emergence of a new sociological emblem: the discourse of diversity. Keywords: diversity; immateriality; globalization; social thought.

scholarly journals Perspective by incongruity in the performance of dialectical ironic analysis: a disciplined approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cate Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
World View ◽  
Social World ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Perspective By Incongruity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
The Way

The importance of dialectic to sociological thought has been recognised by many of the discipline’s most eminent thinkers. Adopting a dialectical world view infused with irony provokes insights revealing logical contradictions, so opening up possibilities for the development of alternative interpretations of the social world. There is, however, very little in the way of method to support the development of dialectical irony as a key analytical tool for the social sciences. This article seeks to remedy this deficit. Drawing on three key examples (trained incapacity, functional stupidity and interpassivity) the article examines Kenneth Burke’s ‘perspective by incongruity’ as a means for interrogating the dialectical moment, so contributing towards the development of dialectical ironic analysis within a methodology of humour.

The Contribution of Enrique Pichon-Rivière: Comparisons with His European Contemporaries and with Modern Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Scharff
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Family Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Original Family ◽  
Kurt Lewin ◽  
Social Applications

Enrique Pichon-Rivière, a pioneer of psychoanalysis, worked and wrote in Argentina in the mid-twentieth century, but his work has not so far been translated into English. From the beginning, Pichon-Rivière understood the social applications of analytic thinking, centring his ideas on "el vinculo", which is generally translated as "the link", but could equally be translated as "the bond". The concept that each individual is born into human social links, is shaped by them, and simultaneously contributes to them inextricably ties people's inner worlds to the social world of family and society in which they live. Pichon-Rivière believed, therefore, that family analysis and group and institutional applications of analysis were as important as individual psychoanalysis. Many of the original family and couple therapists from whom our field learned trained with him. Because his work was centred in the analytic writings of Fairbairn and Klein, as well as those of the anthropologist George Herbert Mead and the field theory of Kurt Lewin, his original ideas have important things to teach us today. This article summarises some of his central ideas such as the link, spiral process, the single determinate illness, and the process of therapy.

Our Most Troubling Madness

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Defeat ◽  
Social World ◽  
Epidemiological Evidence ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brain Alteration ◽  
Benign Course ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

This book examines the way schizophrenia is shaped by its social context: how life is lived with this madness in different settings, and what it is about those settings that alters the course of the illness, its outcome, and even the structure of its symptoms. Until recently, schizophrenia was perhaps our best example—our poster child—for the “bio-bio-bio” model of psychiatric illness: genetic cause, brain alteration, pharmacologic treatment. We now have direct epidemiological evidence that people are more likely to fall ill with schizophrenia in some social settings than in others, and more likely to recover in some social settings than in others. Something about the social world gets under the skin. This book presents twelve case studies written by psychiatric anthropologists that help to illustrate some of the variability in the social experience of schizophrenia and that illustrate the main hypotheses about the different experience of schizophrenia in the west and outside the west--and in particular, why schizophrenia seems to have a more benign course and outcome in India. We argue that above all it is the experience of “social defeat” that increases the risk and burden of schizophrenia, and that opportunities for social defeat are more abundant in the modern west. There is a new role for anthropology in the science of schizophrenia. Psychiatric science has learned—epidemiologically, empirically, quantitatively—that our social world makes a difference. But the highly structured, specific-variable analytic methods of standard psychiatric science cannot tell us what it is about culture that has that impact. The careful observation enabled by rich ethnography allows us to see in more detail what kinds of social and cultural features may make a difference to a life lived with schizophrenia. And if we understand culture’s impact more deeply, we believe that we may improve the way we reach out to help those who struggle with our most troubling madness.

Experience of Ethnographic Fieldwork in an English Benedictine Monastery

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Irvine
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peripheral Participation

What is the role of imitation in ethnographic fieldwork, and what are its limits? This article explores what it means to participate in a particular fieldsite; a Catholic English Benedictine monastery. A discussion of the importance of hospitality in the life of the monastery shows how the guest becomes a point of contact between the community and the wider society within which that community exists. The peripheral participation of the ethnographer as monastic guest is not about becoming incorporated, but about creating a space within which knowledge can be communicated. By focusing on the process of re-learning in the monastery – in particular, relearning how to experience silence and work – I discuss some of the ways in which the fieldwork experience helped me to reassess the social world to which I would return.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document