Distortion: social processes beyond the structured and systematic pdf

Nigel Rapport sente di essere arrivato nel posto giusto per approfondire la sua ricerca nel cosmopolitismo. Rapport è entrato a far parte del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Antropologia di Concordia presso l'Università di St. Andrews in Scozia. È un cambiamento da una piccola città medievale che descrive come "Cambridge sul mare" a una grande città con un campus urbano. L'antropologo britannico è stato nominato Canada Research Chair, Tier 1, in Globalization, Citizenship and Social Justice. È anche il direttore fondatore del Concordia Center for Cosmopolitan Studies, avviando programmi di ricerca e workshop che promuovono l'apprezzamento dei diritti, delle capacità e dell'esperienza dell'individuo globale.

Distortion: social processes beyond the structured and systematic pdf da 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.