Sociology is just as much an art form as it is a science. And while sociologists and those in cognate disciplines have long experimented with their writing, the search for new academic forms and ...practices has acquired new urgency and potentiality. How we write up our research is of paramount importance: our language can be used in experimental and innovative ways to offer nuanced, critical commentary without foreclosing alternative viewpoints, and without excluding others from dialogue. Sociography offers spaces for new sensibilities and sensitivities; unresolved or incomplete argument; multiple, multi-dimensional and multiplying possibilities: for writing differently. As an intervention in writing the social, our collection works to resist the ideological promotion of dry, dispassionate, and seemingly ‘objective’ discourse, one which has traditionally upheld a set of dominant, privileged voices. And in so doing, our collection explores the potential of new ways of writing the social for both a trans- and post-disciplinary academy and a wider reading public; and seeks forms of writing that do justice to the critical curiosity that animates sociology. In sum, the challenge embraced by this collection is to argue for and showcase a praxis that activates sociological knowledge and enlarges the sociological imagination.
This qualitative study aimed to assess the extent to which the 2013 Curriculum high school sociology coursebooks are informed by the results produced by the field of Indonesian sociography. In ...particular, the research is focused on which sociographic themes appear in coursebooks, their percentages and how they are presented. The data were drawn from 21 coursebooks, from seven publishers. Based on the results of content analysis, four main themes were found: social structure (S=395); social changes (S=58); social stratification (S=47); and social processes (S=44). In addition, 36 ethnic groups were identified, across seven major islands. This research also found that the study of Indonesian sociography presented in high school sociology coursebooks actually seeks to raise students’ ethnic awareness, given that Indonesia is a pluralistic and multicultural country; although in some cases it still requires strengthening for content aspects and learning instructions/guidelines for pedagogical aspects.
Autores em Portugal SEIXAS, PAULO CASTRO; DIAS, RICARDO CUNHA; SUBTIL, INÊS
Análise social,
01/2020, Letnik:
55, Številka:
3 (236)
Journal Article
Odprti dostop
Este artigo apresenta alguns dos resultados do primeiro estudo sobre o universo dos autores em Portugal, realizado para a Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (SPA), única representação institucional dos ...autores no país. Procurando-se fazer uma sociografia destes autores, a pesquisa sustentou-se metodologicamente numa abordagem quantitativa na forma de inquérito por questionário, administrado a Cooperadores e Beneficiários da SPA. Os resultados evidenciam alguns padrões de uma “cultura de autor” em Portugal, mas levantam diversos questionamentos que reclamam a relevância de uma maior autonomização da autoria enquanto campo de estudo sociológico.
This article presents some of the results of the first study on the universe of authors in Portugal, conducted for the Portuguese Society of Authors (SPA), the only institutional representation of authors in the country. With the aim of making a sociography of these authors, the research was methodologically based on a quantitative approach in the form of a questionnaire survey, administered to SPA Cooperators and Beneficiaries. The results highlight some patterns of an “author culture” in Portugal, but raise several issues that indicate the relevance of greater autonomy of authorship as a sociological field of study.
I was writing about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone when the global pandemic of Covid-19 hit. Everywhere I looked news articles crowded with infographics of the infected made me suspicious of spheres: ...curves needed flattening. No matter where I turned for information there were human shapes in rings marking distance. I was disturbed by how often the phrase ‘what goes around comes around’ popped into my head, like some kind of self-hazing ritual initiating me into a new normal. As I send this sociography to publication, Russia has invaded Ukraine. The Chernobyl Zone, along with the rest of the country, has become a battlefield. There is no other way for me to write this, from a distance, other than to do so through a looping disorientation. And so I write by turning paragraphs into zones that surround ideas, memories, facts, and feelings of place that are never stable, but always on the move.
The implications of sociography for thinking with global environmental problems are foregrounded by Bruno Latour in Down to Earth. In order to deal with the metamorphosis of the world and take into ...account multiplying viewpoints, Latour argues sociologists must shift the focus of enquiry from theoretical analyses of environmental problems to descriptions of the existence of environmental issues in experimental settings, local shared spaces and common practices. Taking up Latour’s challenge of description from the bottom up, this article examines London’s #OneLess refill water fountain pilot project initiated in 2018 to reduce plastic water bottle consumption, as an example of how scientists are at the forefront of assembling the public existence of environmental problems in local settings. Addressing my participant observation in the refill experiment, the article highlights the methodological challenges the #OneLess pilot poses for generating descriptions of what it means to engage with environmental issues sociographically. By engaging description as a methodological problem, the article examines the strengths and limitations of existing descriptive approaches and develops a different way of deploying a sociographical imagination that attempts to make sense of hesitation as a transformative practice of environmental knowledge production.
This article offers a creative disjunctive feminist analysis of affective rhythms within a complexly bordered complex of favelas in Rio de Janeiro. It explores the gendered atmospheric constitution ...of authority in the favela’s violent border spaces, arguing that authority is partly embodied through a channelling of attention. Attention is conceptualised as involving not just conscious intentions, perceptions and emotions, but also non-conscious rhythms of autonomous affective self-regulation. The article is structured through a tripartite disjunctive form that expresses the bordering of city, body and experience. Drawing on qualitative interview data, quantitative electrodermal activity physiological data and creative writing, the article dwells with the materiality of words and the forms of affects to express material and physiological aspects of emotion and affect in journeys around the internal border-spaces of the city. Adapting the modernist tradition of ‘stream of consciousness’ writing, we style a ‘stream of attention’ form of writing that expresses multiple modes of embodied, conscious and preconscious attention.
A reconsideration of the role of women during the crisis that affected Europe at the beginning of the 1930s has become an imperative for history. With such a premise in mind, this article focuses ...specifically on the female population of the Austrian industrial locality of Marienthal. Thus, the data of the famous sociographic study on "the unemployed" published by Marie Jahoda, Paul Felix Lazarsfeld and Hans Zeisel are reinterpreted, deconstructing the patriarchal analytical codes that structure it. And, as a result, the effects of unemployment on them are analysed along three main points: the domestic economic management, the notion of time and psychological conditions, and, finally, the gender-based abuse in marriages.
Supone un imperativo para la historia realizar una revisión del papel de las mujeres durante la crisis que golpeó Europa a principios de la década de 1930. Bajo tal premisa, este artículo se centra concretamente en la población femenina de la localidad industrial austriaca de Marienthal. De ahí que se reinterpreten los datos del célebre estudio sociográfico sobre los “parados” publicado por Marie Jahoda, Paul Felix Lazarsfeld y Hans Zeisel, desmontando los códigos analíticos patriarcales que lo estructuran. Por consiguiente, se analizan los efectos del desempleo sobre ellas en torno a tres ejes: la gestión económica doméstica, la noción de tiempo y las afecciones psicológicas y, por último, el maltrato de género en los matrimonios.
Au chapitre premier, l'auteur rattache la seigneurie laurentienne à ses origines européennes - et, plus spécialement, françaises - et montre que le modèle implanté en Amérique du Nord est « un modèle ...parmi d'autres » (33). Il fait ainsi ressortir le lien de continuité qui existe entre la féodalité en Europe et la seigneurie au Canada. Au chapitre 2, il brosse un tableau d'ensemble de la seigneurie en Nouvelle-France qui dépasse la simple nomenclature des droits et devoirs des seigneurs et des censitaires. Il y décrit le rythme des concessions en seigneuries et y explique le rôle de la seigneurie dans l'occupation du territoire, l'aménagement de l'espace et l'organisation de la société. Au chapitre 3, il trace le portrait des seigneurs, tant ecclésiastiques que laïcs - un groupe diversifié dont la composition a évolué dans le temps -, et démolit deux mythes au passage : celui du seigneur- défricheur et pauvre et celui du seigneur ré ;sidant. Au chapitre 4, il explique que le régime seigneurial n'a pas disparu par suite de la Conquête et signale qu'il s'est même durci sous le régime anglais. Au chapitre 5, il analyse les rapports seigneurs-censitaires et se demande si l'harmonie ou les conflits caractérisaient la société ; seigneuriale. Au chapitre 6, il étudie l'abolition du ré ;gime seigneurial, devenu une institution anachronique, ce qui l'amène jusque dans les années 1970. En conclusion, il présente un bilan nuancé de l'institution et montre que de nos jours, elle n'est pas uniquement objet de patrimoine.
Hungarian sociography describes society and social problems in an easily understandable way. Sociographic writings do not neglect the political purpose, which creates a specific knowledge about the ...society within a limited public. Despite the heterogeneity of the genre, the central element of sociographic work is the critique of the dysfunctionality of the existing social system, urging social change. Sociography has not had the conditions to become a science. It remained an area on the border of politics – science – literature. All three at once; however, neither of them. The problem of the institutionalization of sociography means that its importance can be determined through the examination of its task.
Burawoy’s theory on public sociology argues that the knowledge of society expressed in scientific language needs to be adapted to the common language. Based on the characteristics of Hungarian sociography, the main goal is to adapt Burawoy’s approach on public sociology to sociography. This article presents the peculiarities of Hungarian sociographic knowledge production and transmission during the 20
century and attempts to place sociography in Burawoy’s system.
