Dissecting Society. Social Sketches and the Formation of Ethnographic and Sociological Knowledge (1830-1860)

剖析社会。

• 批准号: 287075175
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Christiane Schwab
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft und Europäische Ethnologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Independent Junior Research Groups
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/287075175?language=en
• 关键词: Dissecting; Society.; Social; Sketches; Formation

During the nineteenth century, the commercialization of printing advocated novel forms of cultural self-consciousness. Pieces on social types, cultural routines, and institutions of modernizing societies celebrated major success, especially along the axis that connected London and Paris. These proto-ethnographic sketches, many of which were illustrated, appeared in magazines and journals. Assembling an extensive array of descriptions of urban and rural environments, many of them were later to be published in compilations, such as Heads of the People; or, Portraits of the English (1838-1841), Les Français peints par eux-mêmes (1839-1842), and Los valencianos pintados por si mismos (1859). The epistemic function of the sketches and their iconographies within the consolidating social sciences and humanities remains largely unknown. This is despite clear connections to debates held by statisticians, moralists, ethnologists, and folklorists. The sketches' depictions of social life display clear documentary intentions, and when published within integral compilations, the sketches aimed to convey an encyclopedic, holistic perspective on socio-spatial entities. The sketches and their illustrations hence provide ethnographic micro-analysis of social phenomena, and in trying to show inner logics of social figurations, they reflect on concepts such as class, society, city, and nation. In terms of a transnational history of knowledge, the project investigates the social sketches and sketch compilations as early frames of constructing and mediating social understanding. Analytic tools and concepts of discourse analysis, entangled history, and micro-history will be used to examine the corpus of research, which comprises a significant body of social sketches and examples of adjacent knowledge frames, such as the statistical survey, illustrated journalism or the philanthropic report. The geographic scope, Western Europe, will be widened by lookouts into (post-)colonial Latin America and into German-speaking regions.Among the key issues are (1) the sketches' representational techniques (methods of constructing social types, the influence of scientific paradigms, the establishment of ethnographic authority, the significance of visual clues, etc.); (2) how the sketches relate to epistemic developments (e.g., towards materialist and historicizing conceptions of society); (3) the sketches' embeddedness in socio-spatial settings and their intermedial connections to academic, artistic, philanthropic and governmental projects; and (4) how they are to be situated against processes of urbanization and nation-building. Combining analysis of the sources with contextual analysis, the project aims to contribute to a social history of knowledge formation. Disciplinary and geographic frames will be broken down to investigate the social sketches and collections as significant products and agents in the refinement of societal observation and thought in Europe and beyond.

在19世纪，印刷的商业化提倡新颖的文化自我意识形式。关于社会类型，文化习惯和现代化社会机构的作品庆祝了重大成功，尤其是沿着伦敦和巴黎连接的轴心。这些原始的人类志法草图，其中许多图解出现在杂志和期刊上。汇集了各种各样的城市和农村环境描述，后来许多人在汇编中出版，例如人民的负责人；或者，英语的肖像（1838-1841），LesFrançaisPeintspareux-Mêmes（1839-1842）和洛斯·瓦伦西亚诺斯·宾塔德斯·普特达斯·波特·马斯莫斯（Los Valencianos Pintados Por Mismos）（1859）。在巩固社会科学和人类中，草图及其肖像的认知功能在很大程度上是未知的。尽管与统计学家，道德主义者，民族学家和民俗学家进行的辩论有明确的联系。草图对社交生活的描述表现出明确的纪录片意图，并且在整体汇编中发布时，旨在传达有关社会空间实体的百科全书的整体观点。因此，这些草图及其插图提供了社会现象的民族志微分析，并试图展示社会形象的内在逻辑，它们反思了阶级，社会，城市和国家等概念。就知识的跨国历史而言，该项目研究了社会草图和素描汇编，作为构建和调解社会理解的早期框架。分析工具和话语分析，纠缠历史和微观历史的概念将用于研究研究的语料库，该研究包括大量的社交草图和相邻知识框架的例子，例如统计调查，插图新闻学或慈善报告。西欧的地理范围将通过监视（后）殖民拉丁美洲和讲德语的地区来扩大。 （2）草图与认知发展的关系如何（例如，对唯物主义和历史化的社会观念）； （3）草图在社会空间环境中的嵌入及其与学术，艺术，慈善和政府项目的中间联系； （4）如何应对城市化和国家建设的过程。该项目将对来源的分析与上下文分析相结合，旨在为知识形成的社会历史做出贡献。纪律和地理框架将被分解，以研究社会素描和收藏作为重要的产品和代理，以改进欧洲及以后的社会观察和思想。

项目成果

Voices of observation and styles of representation in nineteenth-century sociographic journalism

十九世纪社会学新闻中的观察声音和表现风格

• DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2019.1617707
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: History and Anthropology
• 影响因子: 0.7
• 作者: Christiane Schwab

Social observation in early commercial print media. Towards a genealogy of the social sketch (ca. 1820–1860)

早期商业印刷媒体中的社会观察走向社会素描的谱系（约1820â1860）

• DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2017.1375488
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: History and Anthropology
• 影响因子: 0.7
• 作者: Christiane Schwab

The transforming city in nineteenth-century literary journalism: Ramón de Mesonero Romanos’ ‘Madrid scenes’ and Charles Dickens’ ‘Street sketches’

十九世纪文学新闻业中的转型城市：拉蒙·德·梅索内罗·罗马诺斯的《马德里场景》和查尔斯·狄更斯的《街头素描》

• DOI: 10.1017/s0963926818000391
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Urban History
• 影响因子: 0.6
• 作者: Christiane Schwab