Soziologie der Sinne

Simmel, Georg; Lichtblau, Klaus

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“…Simmel criticized the tendency to treat society as a vessel within which other forms of engagement reside. For Simmel, the broadest idea of society is equivalent to any setting in which people enter into interaction with each other (Simmel, 1999 , p. 20–21). All those forms of engagement are what constitutes society: remove them, and no society is left.…”

Section: Theorizing Social Action On the Site Of Public Political Arenamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Instead of equating society with massive structural entities, he encouraged investigating smaller trivial instances of human relationships and encounters, which flourish endlessly in between large social formations. These microscopic molecular processes of human material represent the actual emergence of society, which is connected and materializes into macroscopic units and formations (Simmel, 1999 , p. 37–38).…”

Section: Theorizing Social Action On the Site Of Public Political Arenamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Actualizing societal membership in imaginary interaction: The “real construction of society” in the opening of current affairs TV discussion

Rautajoki

2023

Front. Sociol.

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The wonder of modern mass-scale society has preoccupied sociological theorists for centuries. How does the whole live on and function? At the extreme of strong empirical traditions, conversation analysis focuses on studying the interactional organization of ongoing action and identities. My article puts these two inquiries together to explore the broader relevancies of situated talk and evidence the skillfulness of social actors in managing multi-scaled cultural memberships simultaneously. Approaching society as a processual accomplishment, this article investigates the instantiation of “societal membership” in a mundane institutional setting of broadcast television. The aim of the article is to experiment with how classical theoretical conceptualization can feed into methodological insight and how detailed empirical scrutiny can enrich our theoretical understanding of the mysteries of modern co-existence. This entails casting an analytic eye on the duality of structure and action. The article re-examines the structural scope of on-site interactional achievements. From an opposite angle, it highlights how integrative societal structures are made real and maintained in the art of interactional encounters. This two-way dynamic is exemplified by scrutinizing a fragment of a televised current affairs program. A set of theoretical key concepts is introduced to shed light on the societal orientations of participants in the opening talk of the program. The opening talk addresses an imaginary audience directly via the camera. It provides a view of the interactional methods used by journalists to invoke relevant identifications for the anticipated recipient at a distance. The encounter is imagined, yet instead of imagining a community in the reception, the analytic focus of the article is on actualizing society in the production of the talk. The spatially and temporally organized societal membership materializes in social relations and interdependencies, which are constituted through intersubjective interpretations, normative positionings, and interactional choices by intentional and knowledgeable actors in the routines of everyday life. The article reverse-engineers the relational framework of the deliberative public sphere enacted in mediated interaction as a collaborative scene of the democratic system. This is achieved by explicating the contextually embedded acts of societization taking place in a journalistically regulated field of participation by means of quasi-interactive public speech.

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Section: Theorizing Social Action On the Site Of Public Political Arenamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theorizing Social Action On the Site Of Public Political Arenamentioning

confidence: 99%

Actualizing societal membership in imaginary interaction: The “real construction of society” in the opening of current affairs TV discussion

Rautajoki

2023

Front. Sociol.

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“…(This section is based on prior elaborations on the topic: Heinrichs (2019a, 2019b)) Great thinkers such as Karl Marx (1989) [12], Sigmund Freud (2009) [13], Georg Simmel (1907) [14], Helmut Plessner (1980) [15], or Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1965) [16] have reflected on the fundamental role of sensory experiences, corporeality, affect, emotions, and embodied imagination for everyday life. With varying foci, they (re-)conceptualized humans as bodily subjects in socio-material worlds, emphasizing the cognitive and corporeal co-construction of sense-making, the corporal-sensorial (co-)presence of humans and non-humans as well as the interplay of mind and body, sensing and interpreting, and intuition and conception.…”

Section: (Un)sensory Sustainability Sciencementioning

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“…The project groups than had four weeks (session 10-13), coached by the lecturers, for field research and filming, analysis, and interpretation of film material considering scientific literature as well as cutting and editing. In the concluding session (14), the project groups presented their findings in presentations of twenty minutes, consisting of 5 min film and 15 min presentation.…”

Section: Presentation and Résumémentioning

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Teaching Sustainable Development in a Sensory and Artful Way—Concepts, Methods, and Examples

Heinrichs

2021

Sustainability

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Despite significant short-term pressures such as the recent Coronavirus pandemic with its economic and social disruptions, longer-term environmental un-sustainability and its projected intergenerational consequences remain a major threat for the future of mankind. More and new efforts are required in all social spheres with regard to the universal Sustainable Development Goals. In this context, the present article makes the argument for teaching sustainable development in higher education with a more sensory and artful approach, in order to raise students’ awareness of the multisensory reality of human existence and develop skills to engage creatively for sustainability transformations. Rooted in the perspective of sensory and arts-based sustainability science, three experimental bachelor courses—designed and conducted by the author of this article in collaboration with artists—with twenty to twenty-five students in each course from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in environmental studies, cultural studies, and social sciences are presented and discussed. It is argued that the specific course design and the scientific-artistic co-teaching provide an innovative way to teach sustainability topics in a more sensory way. The article ends with an outlook on potentials and challenges of this approach.

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“…The adoption of practice-oriented and phenomenological approaches points to the perception that the French model of discourse analyses cannot simply be extended to accommodate visuality. Foucault’s (1975) analysis of the panopticon, elaborated in contemporary surveillance studies , was a foray into the structural power of visibility, but it does not sufficiently cover the mutuality of the gaze (Simmel, 1908/2008), the varieties of visual self-presentation (Goffman, 1956), and the new visual technologies such as amateur video and presentation software (Knoblauch, 2013). But it is also the image itself, broadly understood, which rejects a parallelism with linguistic discourse, “there is a constant oscillation between the material and virtual of the image” understanding it “along the lines of the topological—as more knot-like, in that its surface both reveals and conceals itself .…”

Section: Visual Discourses Beyond Foucaultmentioning

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Visibilities and Visual Discourses: Rethinking the Social With the Image

Traue

Blanc

Cambre

2018

Qualitative Inquiry

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With this special issue, we aim to address visibility not just as a representation of the social, but as an aspect and element of social and cultural orders and actions sui generis. The texts in this volume are dedicated to understanding the practices, power relations and the technological infrastructures in which (audio)-visual practices unfold. To make our proposition clear, we lay out a methodological strategy that we—drawing from French, German and Anglo-Saxon debate—call sociology with the image. Then we provide an overview of the articles in this special issue and point to some ongoing tensions within qualitative inquiry more broadly.

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Soziologie der Sinne

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Actualizing societal membership in imaginary interaction: The “real construction of society” in the opening of current affairs TV discussion

Actualizing societal membership in imaginary interaction: The “real construction of society” in the opening of current affairs TV discussion

Teaching Sustainable Development in a Sensory and Artful Way—Concepts, Methods, and Examples

Visibilities and Visual Discourses: Rethinking the Social With the Image

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