Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority1
Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority1
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叙述社会结构：抵抗法律权威的故事1
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
S. Silbey
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作者：
Patricia Ewick;S. Silbey
作者利用公民抵抗合法化权威的故事，提出了讲故事的行为在时间和社会上的延伸，否则可能是一种个人的、离散的和短暂的交易。他们采用了将权力作为社会交易的偶然结果的概念，强调不仅主导的、制度化的权力，而且对制度化权威的抵制都来自共同的社会文化资源池，包括象征、语言、组织和物质现象。尽管这种抵抗行为可能不会累积起来产生制度变化，但它们可能会产生特定社会交易以外的后果：作者提出，扩大抵抗的社会后果的主要手段是将抵抗行为转变为关于抵抗的故事。基于对权力和权威的结构条件的理解，抵抗的故事可以成为关于权力的来源和限制的说明。因为这样的故事是在与其他故事的互动中讲述的，它们成为了关于社会结构如何分配权力和劣势的社会文化知识流的一部分。
Using stories of citizens’ resistance to legalized authority, the authors propose that the act of storytelling extends temporally and socially what might otherwise be an individual, discrete, and ephemeral transaction. Adopting a concept of power as a contingent outcome in a social transaction, they emphasize that not only dominant, institutionalized power but also resistance to institutionalized authority draws from a common pool of sociocultural resources, including symbolic, linguistic, organizational, and material phenomena. Although such acts of resistance may not cumulate to produce institutional change, they may nonetheless have consequences beyond the specific social transaction: the authors propose that a chief means for extending the social consequences of resistance is to transform an act of resistance into a story about resistance. Based upon an appreciation of the structural conditions of power and authority, stories of resistance can become instructions about both the sources and the limitations of power. Because such stories are told in interaction with other stories, they become part of a stream of sociocultural knowledge about how social structures work to distribute power and disadvantage.