Getting real: heuristics in sociological knowledge

Riley, Dylan; Ahmed, Patricia; Emigh, Rebecca Jean

doi:10.1007/s11186-020-09418-w

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“…Similarly, this Handbook makes no attempt at grand theory-building, preferring instead to use theory as a collection of heuristics (Riley et al, 2021), by which we mean provisional categories, narratives, and concepts to be applied as they are useful in studying different social movement struggles in different contexts. We believe this more humble and pragmatic approach to theory-building better reflects a dynamic reality in which no movement or social debate is ever actually settled.…”

Section: Politico (Us)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change: On "legitimate political discourse" in the global twenty-first century

Yarbrough¹,

Shdaimah²,

Boutcher³

2023

Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change

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Capitol, just visitors from across the country taking in the iconic sights with an air of menacing joy. On the House floor, they rummaged through Members' desks and play-acted in the Speaker's chair. It was here that much of the world met the "shaman." Wearing a horned hat and a shit-eating grin, he was an online influencer among followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory. NORDDEUTSCHE NEUESTE NACHRICHTEN (Germany) Trump-Fans Stürmen KapitolThe convergence between these different styles of protest and different sets of protestors, if that is the word, was perhaps the most confusing element of all. Men in black, zip ties in hand, moved quietly among rowdy revelers on the House floor as they searched for elected officials to forcibly detain. The crowd's chants ranged from "Stop the Steal" to "Hang Mike Pence," and a noose on the Capitol lawn underlined the point. What emerged in the spectacle of that day was a coalition of groups united in the conviction that Donald Trump remained U.S. President, and that any means were justified in pursuit of that conviction. STRAITS TIMES (Singapore) Chinese media and netizens mock "beautiful sight" of US Capitol chaosIntertwined with the militias, white supremacists, and conspiracy theorists, that coalition included several different strands of mostly but not exclusively white conservatives. They were Christian nationalists and libertarians, rural farmers and suburban business-owners. FOREIGN POLICY The Jan. 6 Insurrectionists Aren't Who You Think They AreAnd they were police. Almost thirty off-duty officers from a dozen nationwide departments were identified as attending the pro-Trump rally that morning, and some were charged with participating in the subsequent assault. The Capitol Police suspended a half-dozen of its own officers and investigated several more for their actions that day. This overlap between law enforcement and militia movements was not new, but its implications were now bracingly clear. LE FIGARO (Paris) Démocratie fracturéeThe hard truth is that this was less an assault on legality itself than a battle between competing legalities. Despite all its violence -through all its violence -the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol was an attempt at what scholars of authoritarian legality call "rule by law," in which legal processes and institutions are used to instantiate and legitimize authoritarian rule. The assault intended to reconfigure a legal process, and its strategy was undergirded by legal

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Section: Politico (Us)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change: On "legitimate political discourse" in the global twenty-first century

Yarbrough¹,

Shdaimah²,

Boutcher³

2023

Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change

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“…We cannot impute ‘objective functions’ without subjective mediation, but neither can we take the self-narration of agents as authoritative, concerning the meanings of, or reasons for, their conduct. Once we acknowledge that meanings and self-understandings are active factors in organising such elementary components of life as the perceptions that human agents have, the choices they make, the social alliances they form and the conflicts they create, we may lose our taste for ejecting either constraints of causal genuineness or constraints of interpretive coherence from the practice of sociology and its accompanying heuristics of inquiry (for a formulation along these lines, see Abbott, 2004; and also Riley et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%