Rethinking Social Roles: Conflict and Modern Life
| Autor: | Lisa Smyth |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Structural functionalism
Pragmatism pragmatism Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Agency (philosophy) emotion reflexivity Environmental ethics Modern life 0506 political science normativity 050903 gender studies Reflexivity agency 050602 political science & public administration Social role Sociology 0509 other social sciences social role media_common |
| Zdroj: | Smyth, L 2021, ' Rethinking Social Roles: Conflict and Modern Life ', SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1211 –1227 . https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211007753 |
| Popis: | Does sociology have anything to gain by returning to the concept of social role? Has this concept been irretrievably damaged by its significance in functionalist theory? This article aims to recover the role concept through a consideration of alternative perspectives on normativity, illustrated through research on motherhood. A pragmatist re-conception of role is defended as a way of focusing on those aspects of social structures which exert normative authority over agents, while remaining open to some degree of interpretation. This perspective treats roles not as fixed mechanisms of functional coordination or social reproduction, but instead as variable sites of mutual accountability. The article argues that a pragmatist version of the role concept supports explanation of non-determined agency and complex, uncertain and conflictual forms of normative authority. Treated in these terms, the role concept offers a valuable route to understanding the creative quality of agency and normativity. |
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