Comment and Reply
| Autor: | Anita Ilta Garey, W. L. Goldfrank, Carmen Sirianni, Margaret K. Nelson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 39:764-765 |
| ISSN: | 1939-8638 0094-3061 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0094306110386903 |
| Popis: | James Rule's evaluation of our collection of essays, Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families, includes the critiques that we fail to offer enough "informative generalizations" and "theoretical news," and that we fail to estab lish "any thematic normative stance?e.g., given forms of surveillance should be cur tailed, encouraged, regulated or, censored." All essay collections build generalizations from the ground up. This one is no excep tion. In our theoretical overview we discuss the common themes that emerge from studying family and surveillance simulta neously. These themes may not constitute "theoretical news" but they include "gener alizations" and new ways of thinking about significant issues (e.g., the impact of social location on the vulnerability to surveillance). And all (good) essay collections allow indi vidual authors to develop their own "nor mative stance" rather than imposing one to match the editors' convictions. Again, this one is no exception. Staples and Nelson, for example, each express "concern" about the impact of the technologies of surveillance they examine; the thematic overview consid ers at length the tension between care and control, a central point Rule seems to have missed, which runs through many of the individual chapters. In any case, given the range of topics and issues under consider ation here, it would be hard to find a norma tive stance to cover them all. In fact, it would be absurd to do so. |
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