Nothing is Concealed: De‐centring Tacit Knowledge and Rules from Social Theory

Pleasants, Nigel

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5914.1996.tb00289.x

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“…Simply being a member of the armed forces, for instance, may be mcompatible with an I We heSitate to use the word rules here, since we agree With Pleasants (1996) that the Idea of an uncon-SCIOUS rule IS nonsensical Figure 3 for our propositions about the intent hierarchy.) The intent hierarchy's pyramIdal shape reflects Proposition 2's suggestion that beliefs, values, and morals that have had more time to instill themselves-those that were acquired during childhood, for instance-will be more enduring and resIstant to change.…”

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The Human in Command

2000

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AII nghts reservedNo part of thls book may be reproduced, stored m a retneval system, or transmltted m any form ar by any means, electromc, mechamcal, photocopymg, microfilmmg, recordmg, or otherwlse, wlthout wntten permlSSlOn from the Pubhsher FOREWORD MAJOR-GENERAL M. K. JEFFERYCommand, and mdeed the human in command, has always been key to milItary operations. The complexIty and tempo of modern operations make this statement even more true today than in the past. However, both the military and the research communities have tended to treat command and control (C 2 ) from a limited perspective. For too long, command and control have been considered as if they were a single concept, with control often dominatmg our study. Indeed, in many cases we have divorced operational C 2 from the military institution itself, resulting in disconnects and inefficiencies. Then, in an attempt to overcome these self-inflicted deficiencies, we have pursued the Holy Grail of technology, hoping that it would solve our C 2 problems. Only now, as we start to realize technology's costs and limitations, are we looking critically at C 2 • This book attempts to take such a look. The contributions that make up this book are the product of a June 1998 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) workshop called The Human m Command. Far from being purely an academIc exercise, this gathenng brought together milItary leaders and civilian scientists to discuss C 2 's central pragmatic and conceptual issues-its assumptions, its practices, and its organization. Indeed, in recent years there has been mounting evidence that both our society and Its military institutions are facing organizational crises. In the introduction to her 1992 book Leadership and the New SCience, Margaret Wheatley eloquently expresses the widely shared bewilderment and concern about this problem:I am not alone m wondenng why orgamzatlOns aren't workmg well Many of us are troubled by questIOns that haunt our work Why do so many orgamzatlOns feel dead? Why do projects take so long, develop ever·greater compleXIty, yet so often fat! to achieve any truly slgmficant results? Why does progress, when It appears, so often come from unexpected places, or as a result of surpnses or serendipitous events that our planning had not considered? Why does change Itself, that event we're all supposed to be "managmg," keep drowmng us, relentlessly reducmg any sense of mastery we rmght possess? And why have our expectatIOns for success dimmished to the pomt that often MAJOR· GENERAL M K JEFFERY. 1st CanadIan DIVISIOn, PO Box 17000, Station Forces, Kmgston, OntarIO, Canada K7K 7B4 Vl Foreword the best we hope for IS staymg power and patience to endure the disruptive forces that appear unpredictably m the orgamzatIons where we work? (p. 1) Militaries around the world are living, on a daily basis, with the failings of our current approaches to command and control. The basic organizational models used by milItary forces have not changed m more than a century. Although the demands and complex...

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“…Ludwig Wittgenstein (1949-51, § 11) There is, as already noted, nothing that formally prevents us from using the term 'tacit knowledge' in reference to ordinary practical knowledge. And, surely, the term 'tacit knowledge' has often been used as another name for skilled practices, in areas such as Philosophy of Social Science (e.g., Giddens 1979;Turner 1994;Pleasants 1996Pleasants , 1999, Science and Technology Studies (e.g., Collins 2001;Collins 2010), Knowledge Engineering (e.g., Collins et al 1985;Forsythe et al 1989), and Knowledge Management (e.g., Cook and Brown 1999;Davenport and Prusak 2000;Orlikowski 2002;Tsoukas 2003Tsoukas , 2011. But using the term in this way is bound to continue to cause immense confusion, simply because of the conceptual debris it has gathered from its inception and onwards.…”

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The Trouble with ‘Tacit Knowledge’

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2012

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“…No hay ninguna norma inconsciente, los hábitos son sólo hábitos (Harré, 2002 : 117;Pleasants, 1996). Para reconocer que nuestras actividades dependientes del hábito son también a menudo institucionalizadas, como una costumbre social, de ninguna manera se requiere postular un "enlace" particular entre individuos y las estructuras.…”

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Hacia un relacionalismo pragmático metodológico: de una filosofización de la sociología a una socialización de la filosofía

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DOCUMENTOSHacia un relacionalismo pragmático metodológico.De una filosofización de la sociología a una sociologización de la filosofía En este artículo se analizan los enfoques relacionalistas en ciencias sociales en términos de una distinción conceptual entre "filosofizando la sociología" y "sociologizando la filosofía". Estos marcan dos diferentes actitudes hacia la metafísica filosófica y sus compromisos ontológicos. El pragmatismo de los autores tiene origen en el relacionalismo metodológico de Dewey, el cual es comparado con los compromisos ontológicos de los enfoques realistas, así como con el relacionalismo metodológico de Bourdieu. Se argumenta que la filosofía pragmática de las ciencias sociales es una herramienta adecuada para ayudar a los científicos sociales en su labor metodológica, especialmente en lo que respecta a los estudios de caso basados en problemas.Palabras clave: Metafísica; Pragmatismo; Realismo; Relacionalismo In this article, relationalist approaches to social sciences are analyzed in terms of a conceptual distinction between "philosophizing sociology" and "sociologizing philosophy". These mark two different attitudes toward philosophical metaphysics and ontological commitments. The authors' own pragmatist methodological relationalism of Deweyan origin is compared with ontologically committed realist approaches, as well as with Bourdieuan methodological relationalism. It is argued that pragmatist philosophy of social sciences is an appropriate tool for assisting social scientists in their methodological work, especially as regards problem-driven case studies. Hacia un relacionalismo pragmático metodológico. De una filosofización de la sociología a una sociologización de la filosofía ISSN 2011-0324 Introducción Hoy, en un sentido u otro, un buen número de científicos sociales se identifica a sí mismos como relacionalistas. Por ejemplo, Mustafá Emirbayer (1997) ha escrito un Manifiesto en pro de una sociología relacional, Margaret Somers (1998) ha esbozado un enfoque relacionalista pragmático-realista en ciencias sociales y Stephan Fuchs (2001) ha elaborado una teoría relacionalista de redes para la cultura y la sociedad. Por otra parte, el enfoque realista morfogenético de Margaret Archer (1995 : 9ss., 165ss.) se funda en una idea de propiedades emergentes relacionales y, por supuesto, el concepto central de campo social de Pierre Bourdieu quiere decir "una red, o una configuración, de relaciones objetivas entre posiciones" (Bourdieu y Wacquant, 1992 : 97 Hay considerables diferencias entre los enfoques relacionalistas y éstas diéstas didiferencias podrían ser analizadas de manera muy diversa. En este artículo, las analizamos en términos de las dos actitudes opuestas que una investigación puede tomar con relación a la metafísica -entendida ésta como las "preguntas sobre la realidad que están más allá o detrás de lo que es capaz de ser abordado por los métodos de la ciencia" (véase Diccionario Oxford de Filosofía, 1996 : 240; Diccionario Cambridge de Filosofía, 1999 : 563).Este par d...

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Nothing is Concealed: De‐centring Tacit Knowledge and Rules from Social Theory

Abstract: We know mom than we can &ll (Polanyi, 1967: 4) If you use a rule to give a description you yourself do not know more than you say (Wittgenstein, 1978: 228)

Cited by 73 publications

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Hacia un relacionalismo pragmático metodológico: de una filosofización de la sociología a una socialización de la filosofía

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