Neighbouring as an Occasioned Activity
Neighbouring as an Occasioned Activity
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邻里作为一种偶尔的活动
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2002
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K. Buckner
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作者：
E. Laurier;A. Whyte;K. Buckner
为了说明强烈的社区意识的衰落，社会和文化评论家经常引用郊区生活的特征。由于通勤、过度关注草坪、花坛和财产维护等方面的外观，郊区在空间上分散，白天毫无生气，居民之间的社会关系薄弱可能是郊区遭受的最严重的影响。这种贬低性的评论常常是社会科学家定义他们的“良好社区”版本的前提，哀叹它的缺失或衰落，并且很少关心郊区的日常生活现象。由于关注推进一个或另一个政治议程，传统的规定性研究忽略了郊区居民如何在地面组织他们的日常生活。借鉴民族方法论和其他社会实践研究的见解，我们提供了一种研究社区及其道德和空间组织的替代方法。从我们在英国郊区进行的民族志实地考察中，我们通过寻找一只迷路的猫的事件展示了日常谈话如何在邻居正在进行的偶然活动中表达地点并通过其位置来表达。
To illustrate the decline in a strong sense of community the characteristics of suburban living are often cited by social and cultural commentators. Spatially dispersed, lifeless during the daytime due to commuting, an excessive concern with keeping up appearances in terms of lawns, flowerbeds, and property maintenance, suburbia suffers perhaps worst of all from weak social relations between residents. Such disparaging commentary is frequently a premise for social scientists to define their version of “the good community,” bemoan its absence or decline, and has little concern for the phenomena of daily life in suburbia. In its concern to advance one or another political agenda conventional stipulative studies miss just how suburban residents organise their everyday lives at ground level. Drawing on the insights of ethnomethodology and other studies of social practice we proffer an alternative approach to the study of community and its moral and spatially implicated organisation. From our ethnographic fieldwork in a UK suburb we show, via the incident of the search for a lost cat, how everyday talk formulates places and is formulated by its location in the ongoing occasioned activities of neighbours.