Distortion: social processes beyond the structured and systematic pdf

Nigel Rapport 觉得他来对地方了，可以进一步研究世界主义。 Rapport 已从苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学加入康考迪亚社会学和人类学系。 这是从一个被他描述为“海边的剑桥”的中世纪小镇转变为拥有城市校园的大城市的转变。 这位英国人类学家被任命为加拿大全球化、公民和社会正义方面的一级研究主席。 他还是康考迪亚国际研究中心的创始主任，发起研究计划和研讨会，促进对全球个人的权利、能力和经验的理解。

Distortion: social processes beyond the structured and systematic pdf 奈杰尔·拉波特

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.