Distortion: social processes beyond the structured and systematic pdf

Nigel Rapport siente que ha venido al lugar correcto para continuar su investigación sobre el cosmopolitismo. Rapport se ha unido al Departamento de Sociología y Antropología de Concordia de la Universidad de St. Andrews en Escocia. Es un cambio de una pequeña ciudad medieval que él describe como "Cambridge junto al mar" a una gran ciudad con un campus urbano. El antropólogo británico ha sido nombrado Cátedra de Investigación de Canadá, Nivel 1, en Globalización, Ciudadanía y Justicia Social. También es el director fundador del Concordia Center for Cosmopolitan Studies, lanzando programas de investigación y talleres que promueven una apreciación de los derechos, las capacidades y la experiencia del individuo global.

Distortion: social processes beyond the structured and systematic pdf por Nigel Rapport

Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. It can also occur between thoughts and actions; between words and how they are interpreted; between a statement of law and its enactment; between a vision and its artistic representation; and between a cultural tradition or habitus and its animation in contemporary contexts. Escaping the bounds of relationality, of structuration and of systemics, distortion is a form of complex connectedness that has seldom been addressed in the social sciences as a phenomenon in its own right. This volume argues for the key importance of distortion as a concept in the social sciences, and attempts to refine it as a concept. Each chapter examines distortion in the context of an ethnographic case study, examining how its conceptualization can further comprehension of a particular ethnographic situation. It is contended that distortion is an account of the emergent or revolutionary nature of human life, an emergence that can be attached to particular antecedent conditions in a processual or temporal way yet is a transformation of the essential nature of those conditions.