"Whatever I Have to Do That's Right:" Culture and the Precariousness of Personhood in a Poor Urban Neighborhood.
"Whatever I Have to Do That's Right:" Culture and the Precariousness of Personhood in a Poor Urban Neighborhood.
复制标题
“无论我必须做什么都是对的：”文化和贫困城市社区中人格的不稳定。
DOI：
10.1111/etho.12205
复制
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Lowe,EdwardD
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Lowe,EdwardD
这篇文章介绍了一个以人为中心的案例研究，在威斯康星州密尔沃基市的一个低收入城市社区，一名妇女努力实现有意义的人格意识。通过对这一案例的纵向人种学数据的分析，可以看出日常生活中对道德共鸣的人格感的渴望是如何通过三种文化模式的核心集合来实现的：“提供”和作为父母的“在场”，以及在“防御性个人主义”的框架内这样做。这种文化模式的集合特别引人注目，因为童年经历的具体化残余物和成年生活中“道德崩溃”的时刻相结合。道德崩溃的经历特别有意义，因为反复出现的物质困难不断威胁着颠覆过去在日常生活中实现有意义的人格意识的努力，反过来又产生了找回和修复已失去的已实现人格的象征性标志的持续努力。这些观察指向了一种人格的不稳定，这似乎进一步激励了对这种文化模式组合的自我定义的投资。
This article presents a person‐centered case study of one woman's struggles to realize a meaningful sense of personhood in a low‐income urban neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An analysis of longitudinal ethnographic data for this case reveals how everyday aspirations toward a morally resonant lived‐sense of personhood were informed by a core assemblage of three cultural models: “providing” and “being there” as a parent and doing so within a framework of “defensive individualism.” This assemblage of cultural models was particularly compelling because of a combination of the embodied residue of childhood experiences and moments of “moral breakdown” in adult life. The experiences of moral breakdown were particularly meaningful because recurrent episodes of material hardship constantly threatening to upend past efforts to realize a meaningful sense of personhood in everyday life, in turn, generated a constant effort to reclaim and repair the symbolic markers of an achieved personhood that had been lost. These observations point to a precariousness of personhood that seemed to further motivate an investment in a self‐definition in terms of this combination of cultural models.