The Particular and the Provincial: Thinking with Dorothy Smith’s Phenomenology

IF 4.1 1区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY
Paige L. Sweet
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I focus on Smith’s phenomenological insights related to the concepts of “bifurcation” and “consciousness” to explore the persistent tension in her work between particularity and abstraction. For Smith, because marginalized groups’ experiences are excluded from dominant ways of knowing, we must begin inquiry from the embodied activity of everyday life, never from the abstracted categories of accepted knowledge. Smith’s concept of bifurcation is essential to understanding this. When people experience the world as bifurcated, we should ask how that split illuminates the ongoing production of marginality as constituted by historically specific relations of ruling. “Consciousness” is likewise essential for Smith because it reflects her concern with how forms of domination get incorporated. For Smith, consciousness is not “micro” but reflects the temporal organization of social power. Starting from the particular seems “small” but is actually incredibly ambitious: The most shrouded aspects of social power are visible there.
特殊与乡土:多萝西·史密斯现象学思考
我将聚焦于史密斯关于“分叉”和“意识”概念的现象学见解,以探索她作品中特殊性与抽象性之间持续的张力。对史密斯来说,由于边缘群体的经验被排除在主流的认识方式之外,我们必须从日常生活的具体化活动开始探究,而不是从公认知识的抽象范畴开始。史密斯的分岔概念对于理解这一点至关重要。当人们体验到分裂的世界时,我们应该问,这种分裂如何阐明由历史上特定的统治关系构成的边缘性的持续生产。“意识”对史密斯来说同样至关重要,因为它反映了她对统治形式如何整合的关注。在斯密看来,意识不是“微观的”,而是反映了社会权力的时间组织。从特定的角度出发似乎“很小”,但实际上是非常雄心勃勃的:社会权力最隐蔽的方面在那里可见。
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Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory SOCIOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: Published for the American Sociological Association, this important journal covers the full range of sociological theory - from ethnomethodology to world systems analysis, from commentaries on the classics to the latest cutting-edge ideas, and from re-examinations of neglected theorists to metatheoretical inquiries. Its themes and contributions are interdisciplinary, its orientation pluralistic, its pages open to commentary and debate. Renowned for publishing the best international research and scholarship, Sociological Theory is essential reading for sociologists and social theorists alike.
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