Contentious Tactics as Jazz Performances: A Pragmatist Approach to the Study of Repertoire Change

IF 4.1 1区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY
Tomás Gold
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Abstract

The metaphor of “repertoire” is increasingly used in the study of contention to convey the fact that people act collectively through a limited set of cultural routines. Yet despite its broad adoption, the term is loosely defined and rarely subject to empirical verification. This has led to unfruitful scholarly disputes, with most perspectives assuming that change in repertoires is independent from how actors perform them. Drawing a parallel between the dynamics of repertoire performance and jazz improvisation, I propose a pragmatist definition of repertoires, understood as relational sets of collective practices that become routinized as habit-sets and become a baseline for innovation when actors face puzzling situations. I then provide a theoretical model for analyzing change in contentious repertoires, which relies on the study of the co-constitutive relation between tactical affordances, actors’ strategies and identities, and contexts. I illustrate this model with three secondary cases of unexpected tactical innovation.
有争议的战术作为爵士表演:一个实用主义的方法来研究剧目的变化
在争论的研究中,“剧目”的隐喻越来越多地被用来传达这样一个事实,即人们通过一套有限的文化惯例集体行动。然而,尽管该术语被广泛采用,但定义松散,很少经过实证验证。这导致了毫无结果的学术争论,大多数观点认为剧目的变化与演员的表演方式无关。将曲目表演和爵士乐即兴创作的动态进行比较,我提出了一个实用主义者对曲目的定义,将其理解为集体实践的关系集合,这些集合被常规化为习惯集合,并在演员面临令人困惑的情况时成为创新的基线。然后,我提供了一个分析有争议剧目变化的理论模型,该模型依赖于对战术可供性、演员策略和身份以及背景之间的共同构成关系的研究。我用三个意想不到的战术创新的次要案例来说明这个模型。
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Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory SOCIOLOGY-
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6.90
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16
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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