Being in Community: Re-Visioning Sociology
Being in Community: Re-Visioning Sociology
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融入社区:重新审视社会学
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10.1111/1467-954x.12429
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发表时间:
2016
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通讯作者:
Valerie Walkerdine
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作者:
D. Studdert;Valerie Walkerdine
This special issue started life as a seminar organized under the auspices of the Sociological Review. Entitled ‘Towards a Micro-sociality of Austerity: Community and Possibilities for Localism’, it was held in Cardiff in April 2014. Its aim was to rethink social scientific approaches to community. By making sociality and being-ness the centre of an approach to community, this special issue seeks to ask what it would mean to rethink our approach to community and in the process imagine a social sciences where community was both the key term and starting point. This rethinking owes a great deal to the work of David Studdert, who has consistently sought to challenge existing conceptualizations of, and approaches to, community (Studdert, 2006; Studdert and Walkerdine, 2016). In critiquing what he calls ‘the state/individual axis’, Studdert has proposed a rethinking of community through a re-emphasis on the communal, that is the action of communing, and through this, upon relationality and sociality as primary for social analysis. At first, he described this as micro-sociality (Studdert, 2006), but it was agreed that this begged the question of the macro and thus this was dropped in favour of an understanding of sociality as primary. Given that this was the term in use during the seminar, this term is referred to by many of the contributors to this issue. It is important also to mention the context of the renewed interest in and funding of community research within the UK in recent years. The Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities Programme championed and funded research across the arts, humanities and social sciences, focusing on communities. At one point in the programme, they also championed research co-produced with communities, which they called ‘co design and co-creation’, a very bold step for an academically oriented research council. Several of the authors in this special issue had research funded in this way or in ways related to it. In creating this programme, the AHRC made new kinds of research innovation in relation to community, possible.
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Studdert D
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Studdert D