Imaginary of Behavioral Governing

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI:10.1215/08992363-10742509

Magdalena Małecka

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Abstract

Abstract The article introduces the concept of the imaginary of behavioral governing to capture the view on the role of behavioral research in governing behavior that is widely shared in the academic and public discussions about behavioral policy (nudging), including the recent debates about reliance on big data and algorithms to influence people's behavior. It is believed that behavioral science provides knowledge of stable regularities of behavior and of the cognitive processes that lead to them, and that policymakers/governments act upon this knowledge to change behavior of individuals. I argue that this set of claims about the knowledge provided by the behavioral sciences is not substantiated in behavioral research. The formal theoretical frameworks of behavioral science come to be interpreted—via the imaginary of behavioral governing—as relating to human agents that power can act upon. I reflect on the possible point of entry for critique of this imaginary and its effects.

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行为控制的想象

本文引入了行为治理想象的概念，以捕捉行为研究在行为治理中的作用的观点，这一观点在学术界和公众关于行为政策(助推)的讨论中广泛共享，包括最近关于依赖大数据和算法来影响人们行为的争论。人们认为，行为科学提供了行为的稳定规律和导致行为的认知过程的知识，决策者/政府根据这些知识采取行动来改变个人的行为。我认为这一系列关于行为科学提供的知识的主张并没有在行为研究中得到证实。行为科学的正式理论框架——通过行为治理的想象——被解释为与权力可以作用的人类代理人有关。我思考对这种想象及其影响进行批判的可能切入点。

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.