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

剖析社会。

基本信息

批准号：
287075175
负责人：
Professorin Dr. Christiane Schwab
金额：
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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

项目摘要

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.

在十九世纪，印刷的商业化倡导文化自觉的新形式。关于社会类型、文化惯例和现代化社会制度的文章庆祝了重大成功，特别是沿着连接伦敦和巴黎的轴心。这些原始的人种学草图，其中许多都有插图，出现在杂志和期刊上。汇集了大量关于城市和农村环境的描述，其中许多后来以汇编的形式出版，如《人民首领》；或《英国人的肖像》(1838-1841)、《法兰西人的肖像》(1839-1842)和《洛斯瓦伦西亚诺斯·平塔多斯-西米斯莫斯》(1859)。素描及其肖像画在巩固社会科学和人文科学中的认知功能在很大程度上仍不为人所知。尽管这与统计学家、道德学家、民族学家和民俗学家举行的辩论有明显的联系。这些素描对社会生活的描绘显示了明确的纪实意图，当以完整的汇编形式出版时，这些素描旨在传达关于社会空间实体的百科全书式的整体视角。因此，这些素描和插图提供了对社会现象的民族志微观分析，在试图展示社会形象的内在逻辑时，它们反映了阶级、社会、城市和国家等概念。在跨国知识史方面，该项目调查社会素描和素描汇编，作为构建和调解社会理解的早期框架。将使用话语分析、纠缠历史和微观历史等分析工具和概念来检查研究语料库，其中包括大量社会草图和相邻知识框架的例子，如统计调查、图文并茂的新闻或慈善报告。(1)素描的表现手法(构建社会类型的方法、科学范式的影响、民族志权威的建立、视觉线索的意义等)；(2)素描如何与认识论的发展(例如，走向唯物主义和历史化的社会概念)有关；(3)素描在社会空间环境中的嵌入性及其与学术、艺术、慈善和政府项目的中介联系；以及(4)如何与城市化和国家建设进程相适应。该项目将来源分析与背景分析相结合，旨在为知识形成的社会史做出贡献。学科和地理框架将被分解，以调查社会素描和收藏品，作为欧洲和其他地区完善社会观察和思想的重要产品和代理人。