scholarly journals Desafiando el contexto: Apuntes a los debates contemporáneos sobre redes y escalas

2020 ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Juan Camilo Perdomo-Marín
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Political Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human World ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Operational Logic

El presente escrito sintetiza, evalúa y amplia críticamente los debates contemporáneos sobre el ejercicio de contextualización para comprender los nuevos desafíos y posibilidades que acarrea la investigación social. Para esta tarea, primero, se introducirán las ideas centrales de los Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología con la finalidad de comprender cómo el proceso de contextualización afecta directamente el objeto de estudio. Segundo, se señalará que este objeto posee un estatus ontológico emergente puesto que se deben redefinir constantemente las relaciones que lo componen. Tercero, se resaltarán las contribuciones de Marilyn Strathern a los debates anteriores por medio de sus reflexiones sobre las escalas. Por último, mediante los conceptos de lógicaperceptiva, hacer-escala y mereología se sustentará que la ontología, la epistemología, la metodología y la reflexividad se encuentran en una retroalimentación permanente. Además, se resaltará que este vínculo implica reevaluar la posición política del investigador, la forma en que se entiende el trabajo de campo y el mundo no-humano.This paper synthesizes, evaluates and critically broadens contemporary debates about the exercise of contextualization to understand the new challenges and possibilities that social research brings. For this task, first, the central ideas of the Social Studies of Science and Technology will be introduced in order to comprehend how the contextualization process directly affects the object of study. Second, it will be noted that this object has an emerging ontological status since the relationships that compose it must be constantly redefined. Third, Marilyn Strathern’s contributions to the previous debates will be highlighted through her reflections on the scales. Finally, through the concepts of operational-logic, make-scale and mereology it will be sustained that ontology, epistemology, methodology and reflexivity are in permanent feedback. In addition, it will be emphasized that this link implies reevaluating the political position of the researcher, the way in which fieldwork and the non-human world are understood.

Horkheimer, Max (1895–1973)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Edgar
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pablo Picasso ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Theorist ◽  
The University

Born near Stuttgart, Germany, the philosopher Max Horkheimer, who obtained his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt, is best known as a leader of the Frankfurt School, along with Theodor W. Adorno and Jürgen Habermas. From 1930 to 1958 (with a significant hiatus from 1934 to 1948), Horkheimer served as the Director of the Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt Institute for Social Research), founded in 1923 to promote multidisciplinary research in the social sciences with a particular focus on Marxian thought; along with his colleague Adorno, Horkheimer was responsible for developing the distinctive form of Marxist philosophy that framed this research through the methodologies of German critical theory. Instead of just describing social systems through "objective" means, critical theory would endeavor to uncover the social context and raise questions about truth and social justice, acknowledging also that critical theory cannot produce universal truths. At best, the critical theorist simply expresses the contradictions and falsehoods of the society within which they work. Critical theory was applied in a sweeping analysis of Western civilization in Dialektik der Aufklärung (1947; Dialectic of Enlightenment), in which Adorno and Horkheimer argued that the progress of enlightened Western culture was simultaneously a regression into a new barbarism and an entanglement in myth. In modernist art, such as the work of James Joyce and Pablo Picasso, Horkheimer identified a crucial source of resistance to the political and economic oppression of late capitalist society. Horkheimer, who was Jewish, escaped Nazi Germany and taught at Columbia University from 1935 to 1941; he lived in Los Angeles during the 1940s, but eventually returned to Germany where died in Nuremburg in 1973.

The Fabrication of Networked Socialities

2009 ◽  
pp. 207-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Landri
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Virtual Communities Of Practice ◽  
Social Logics

This chapter is dedicated to analyse the fabrication of networked socialities, that is to address the complex interweaving of technologies of information and communication and the manifold instantiations of sociality. Networked socialities are digital formations being produced out of the intertwining of social logics outside and inside digital spaces and society. Such contribution is organized as follows: first, it will present the theoretical frame necessary to grasp the fabrication of sociologies in our information age, drawing on some concepts elaborated by the social studies of science and technology, together with the studies of the global digital worlds. Then, it will highlight the analytical fruitfulness of this perspective by describing some digital formations, such as social network sites, virtual communities of practice, and electronic markets. Finally, it will discuss the effects and the implications of such fabrication as a re-configuration of social, the emerging post-social relationships as well as the increasing fragility of knowledge societies.

scholarly journals Langdon Winner’s Intellectual Trajectory and Political Engagement: A Latin-American Perspective from Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
María Belén Albornoz
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Virtual Conference

In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Langdon Winner was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Sharon Traweek. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of STS. Prize recipients include founders of the field of STS, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This response to Winner’s Bernal lecture considers his legacy beyond the US. The author traces Winner’s influence in Ecuador and Latin America more generally through a tracing back of Winner's politea which draws on Plato’s technē as a model for understanding inherently political artifacts.

scholarly journals A “Middle Voice” from the South

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Jorge Núñez ◽  
Maka Suarez
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Epistemic Authority ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
The South ◽  
Middle Voice ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Virtual Conference

In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Sharon Traweek was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Langdon Winner. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of STS. Prize recipients include founders of the field of STS, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This is a reflection on Traweek’s work on epistemic authority in relation to Kaleidos—Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography in Ecuador.

scholarly journals Life stories and formation of subordinate subjectivity. Note on social research in Italy by Danilo Montaldi

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Silvano Calvetto
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pedagogical Aspect ◽  
The One

The social research performed by Danilo Montaldi (1929-1975) represented an interpretation of great interest in understanding the transformations of neo-capitalism between the 1950’s and 1960’s. In the ambit of a very critical militancy towards the traditional forms of political participation, his attention to subordinates is marked, in our view, by a significant pedagogical aspect. On the one hand, in fact, he focuses on the political and social processes through which subordinate subjectivity is formed, with particular regard to the role played by the institutions, while on the other hand, he examines strategies with regard to his own emancipation from that condition of oppression, based on the idea of education intended as liberation. Where the educational commitment and political commitment merge in the same project of reconstruction of society, looking beyond the drifts of neocapitalism in view of a world capable of recognizing the rights of all respecting each other’s differences. This, as has been observed by several commentators, seems to be the most significant legacy of Danilo Montaldi’s intellectual commitment.

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