Three Axes of Genre Study

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Rosen
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Minor Character ◽  
Genre Study

Derives a general theory of genre from analysis of the genre I call “minor-character elaboration.” It argues that genre should be studied and understood along three intersecting axes: as a practice of formal reiteration and variation, as a shared social practice that conveys the cultural logic of a particular historical moment, and as a technology that is deployed to serve the strategic needs of producers and consumers.

Genre as Telescopic Method

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Social Logic ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Genre Study

One of the virtues, indeed the pleasures, of genre study is the fact that it allows for telescoping between levels of analysis. Genre study endeavors like much historicist and sociological literary scholarship to tease out the relations between literary forms and broader social and cultural phenomena. This book has argued for a triple-stranded approach to studying genre, as it sits at the intersection of form, history, and the workings of social institutions. Analyzing the variations on the formula or recipe that constitute a genre aims to elucidate the transformations and adaptability of a literary form. The conventions that appear across a cross-section of a genre communicate a common set of assumptions, a shared social logic that helps explain why a succession of writers gravitate to a generic technique at a particular historical moment. And genres serve institutional and marketplace functions, helping producers target audiences and gain strategic advantages in the market, and providing satisfactions for readers. But because any text that utilizes a genre shares features with a wider corpus of texts while departing from them in other ways, genre study allows scholars to strive for claims about a genre’s greater social significance while remaining sensitive to the innovative or idiosyncratic features of individual texts. Genre, that is, appeals to the scholar who wants to reach for the breadth of social significance without abandoning the nuance of close reading. One can zoom in on a novel such as ...

scholarly journals CONCEPÇÕES TEÓRICAS E PESQUISAS EDUCACIONAIS: OS DESAFIOS PARA SUPERAR O SENSO COMUM

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (Especial 2) ◽  
pp. 166-171
Author(s):  
Dayane de Freitas Colombo Rosa ◽  
Roseli Gall do Amaral da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Historical Moment

The purpose of this research is the theoretical conceptions of research in education, more specifically the positivist and materialist currents of history, the objective is to reflect on the challenges faced by students of educational research programs and / or pedagogy course in overcoming common sense in their productions in order to discuss the marketing objectives that legitimize the non-teaching and / or eclecticism of these theoretical-methodological conceptions. It is assumed that the production of knowledge is a historical process that is woven into the fabric of human existence to meet the needs of the organization of life, and is not a phenomenon constituted in a natural and linear way without connection with the concrete movement of history. Thus, we sought to answer the question: what challenges do we face today in the academic production of the educational area in relation to the method? For this, the methodological method adopted is the bibliographical research, the references of reading are especially Comte (1978), Marx and Engels (1986), Saviani (2003/2002), Nagel (2004) and Pereira (2003). From the theoretical methodological conception adopted, the researches are constituted 173 Colloquium Humanarum, vol. 15, n. Especial 2, Jul–Dez, 2018, p. 172-178. ISSN: 1809-8207. DOI: 10.5747/ch.2018.v15.nesp2.001093 differently, since the conception of what is science, man, education and human development meet the objectives of the social practice of the historical moment to which they belong, and to understand them in addition to the apparent causality that contributes to the process of struggle against alienation and overcoming of common sense. Keywords: Research, Education, Method.

scholarly journals Towards a General Theory of Markets: A Social Practice Theory Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Martyn James Gosling
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Social Practice Theory ◽  
Academic Knowledge

<p>In recent years new conceptualisations of marketing have been founded in social practice theory. Markets and market boundaries, however, while debated, have not been re-theorised and definitions remain based in the neoclassical economics paradigm. Social practices theory provides a basis for defining markets and market boundaries by practices and their performances by market actors. This thesis advances the debate on a general theory of markets by theorising a new conceptual model of markets as social structures demarcated by nine specific categories of routinised practices described here as parameters. A qualitative study grounded within the social constructionist epistemology was conducted to explore the market practices model, particularly the categories of practices forming the parameters that define market boundaries. The New Zealand mobile telecommunications market provided an opportunity for a situational-specific exploration involving interviews with service providers, users, and regulators as actors performing in the market between 1990 and 2014, triangulated against 26-years of documentary evidence. The research enabled understanding of practices through the comparison of performances between progressive eras in the mobile telephone market in New Zealand. The findings supporting the market practice model not only advance new theory that extends our understanding of markets and market boundaries but also provide context for marketing academics. Furthermore, the model provides new perspectives for business strategy and policy development. The thesis concludes with a summary of contributions to the academic knowledge of markets and an overview of directions for future research and debate.</p>

scholarly journals Towards a General Theory of Markets: A Social Practice Theory Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Martyn James Gosling
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Social Practice Theory ◽  
Academic Knowledge

<p>In recent years new conceptualisations of marketing have been founded in social practice theory. Markets and market boundaries, however, while debated, have not been re-theorised and definitions remain based in the neoclassical economics paradigm. Social practices theory provides a basis for defining markets and market boundaries by practices and their performances by market actors. This thesis advances the debate on a general theory of markets by theorising a new conceptual model of markets as social structures demarcated by nine specific categories of routinised practices described here as parameters. A qualitative study grounded within the social constructionist epistemology was conducted to explore the market practices model, particularly the categories of practices forming the parameters that define market boundaries. The New Zealand mobile telecommunications market provided an opportunity for a situational-specific exploration involving interviews with service providers, users, and regulators as actors performing in the market between 1990 and 2014, triangulated against 26-years of documentary evidence. The research enabled understanding of practices through the comparison of performances between progressive eras in the mobile telephone market in New Zealand. The findings supporting the market practice model not only advance new theory that extends our understanding of markets and market boundaries but also provide context for marketing academics. Furthermore, the model provides new perspectives for business strategy and policy development. The thesis concludes with a summary of contributions to the academic knowledge of markets and an overview of directions for future research and debate.</p>

Berkeley’s Theory of Language in Alciphron 7

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth L. Pearce
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Sharp Distinction ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Special Case

Berkeley’s most detailed discussion of the philosophy of language appears in Alciphron. Although Berkeley’s discussion is motivated by problems about religious language raised by John Toland, his response is not to develop a theory of religious language as a special case but rather to defend a general theory of language and show that the meaningfulness of these religious utterances is a consequence of that theory. The theory Berkeley adopts holds that words get to be meaningful when they are used according to conventional rules as part of a public social practice aiming at practical ends. Berkeley does not endorse a sharp distinction between emotive and cognitive language, but rather holds that one and the same word is typically associated with a wide variety of rules, which may instruct users not only to have ideas but also to feel emotions or perform a variety of linguistic or non-linguistic actions.

Institutional Legitimacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Moral Reason ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Institutional Legitimacy ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Service Conception

This chapter offers a general theory of institutional legitimacy, the Metacoordination view, according to which legitimacy assessments are best understood as being part of a social practice aimed at achieving consensus on whether an institution is worthy of our moral reason-based support—support not dependent solely on the fear of coercion or on a perfect fit between our own interests and what the institution demands of us. The Metacoordination view’s account of the practical function of legitimacy assessments is used to identify criteria of legitimacy that apply to a wide range of institutions and to show that, for institutions that back their rules with coercion, conformity to the requirements of the rule of law is a presumptive necessary condition of legitimacy. The Metacoordination view is shown to be superior to consent theories of legitimacy and attempts to use Raz’s “service” conception of authority as an account of institutional legitimacy.

Extreme self-sacrifice beyond fusion: Moral expansiveness and the special case of allyship

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Crimston ◽  
Matthew J. Hornsey
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Biological Markers ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Relevant Dimension ◽  
Special Case

AbstractAs a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice, Whitehouse's article misses one relevant dimension: people's willingness to fight and die in support of entities not bound by biological markers or ancestral kinship (allyship). We discuss research on moral expansiveness, which highlights individuals’ capacity to self-sacrifice for targets that lie outside traditional in-group markers, including racial out-groups, animals, and the natural environment.

Ideas and Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
PETER M. SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper examines the actions of one Salvadorean priest – Padre David Rodríguez – in one parish – Tecoluca – to underscore the importance of religious leadership in the rise of El Salvador's contentious political movement that began in the early 1970s, when the guerrilla organisations were only just beginning to develop. Catholic leaders became engaged in promoting contentious politics, however, only after the Church had experienced an ideological conversion, commonly referred to as liberation theology. A focus on one priest, in one parish, allows for generalisation, since scores of priests, nuns and lay workers in El Salvador followed the same injustice frame and tactics that generated extensive political mobilisation throughout the country. While structural conditions, collective action and resource mobilisation are undoubtedly necessary, the case of religious leaders in El Salvador suggests that ideas and leadership are of vital importance for the rise of contentious politics at a particular historical moment.

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