Social Change and the Everyday Practice of Dealing with Difference in the City: Banal Transgression in Allotment Gardens

社会变迁与城市中处理差异的日常实践：分配花园中的平庸越轨

• 批准号: 389804180
• 负责人: Dr. Nina Schuster
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fachgebiet Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie (SOZ)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/389804180?language=en
• 关键词: Social; Change; Everyday; Practice; Dealing

The planned project aims to connect a perspective on social inequality with a conflict theory perspective on the everyday practices of dealing with difference in the city. Due to social inequality and the related unequal distribution of material and symbolic goods, of formal education and life chances as well as due to social exclusion on the basis of prejudice and discrimination, processes of differentiation are a relevant issue of social research. The project will use Bourdieus understanding of social space as a relational "space of power positions" whose participants struggle for the positions in social space. In these struggles, each one is disposing of a different set of capital and is underlying structural constraints. The project will focus on the everyday practices of differentiation, with special interest for the contexts and mechanisms of the everyday "doing difference" (Fenstermaker/West) as well as for the categories of difference used for the everyday presentations and constructions.For urban societies, social heterogeneity has always been fundamental and cities have always been expected to crucially contribute to social integration. But since the 1970s mass loss of jobs in the productive sector, some sociologists worry about the missing of an integrational mode and about a growing social divide for Western societies. They also fear that spatial dynamics within powerful spatial processes in the city might intensify existing social inequalities. In consequence, contemporary and future cities are sketched as places of conflict that is complicating and preventing integration. Thus, urban sociologist detect a lack of forms and situations to revive and develop an integrated urban society.The planned study relates to that diagnosis, using a conflict theoretical approach that reverses the assumption of conflicts as signs of disintegration. Conflict theoretical approaches in social theory consider conflicts as crucial for a society (Dahrendorf). In order to clarify the urgent question of how urban societies manage to deal with difference, the proposed project will direct attention to contexts of "banal transgression" (Amin). Amin considers the everyday micro-publics where people connect and coexist while unavoidably negotiating difference. In these settings of inevitable contact, participants depend on each other in a framing that is neither family- nor friendship-oriented. The proposed project is an ethnographic study of six allotment garden associations in the cities of Dortmund and Leipzig. With regard to urban social life, German allotment gardens are still quite relevant. The study addresses the everyday practices of coexistence-togetherness of its participants considering their function for banal transgression in processes of differentiation and conflict.

计划中的项目旨在将社会不平等的视角与处理城市差异的日常做法的冲突理论视角联系起来。由于社会不平等以及与之相关的物质和象征性物品、正规教育和生活机会分配不均，以及基于偏见和歧视的社会排斥，分化过程是一个相关的社会研究问题。该项目将使用布尔迪厄斯对社会空间的理解，将其理解为一个关系的“权力地位空间”，其参与者为社会空间中的地位而斗争。在这些斗争中，每一场斗争都在处置一套不同的资本，并受到潜在的结构性制约。该项目将侧重于差异化的日常实践，特别关注日常“做不同”(Fensteraker/West)的背景和机制，以及用于日常陈述和构建的差异类别。对于城市社会，社会异质性一直是根本，城市一直被期望为社会融合做出关键贡献。但自20世纪70年代以来，生产部门的工作岗位大量流失，一些社会学家担心一体化模式的缺失，以及西方社会日益扩大的社会鸿沟。他们还担心，城市中强大的空间过程中的空间动态可能会加剧现有的社会不平等。因此，当代和未来的城市被描绘成冲突的地方，使一体化复杂化并阻碍一体化。因此，城市社会学家发现，缺乏形式和情况来复兴和发展一体化的城市社会。计划中的研究与这一诊断有关，使用冲突理论方法，推翻了冲突是解体迹象的假设。社会理论中的冲突理论方法认为冲突对社会至关重要(达伦多夫)。为了澄清城市社会如何处理差异这一紧迫问题，拟议的项目将把注意力集中在“平庸违规”(AMIN)的背景下。阿明认为，在日常的微型公共场合，人们相互联系、共存，但不可避免地会协商分歧。在这些不可避免的接触中，参与者在既不以家庭也不以友谊为导向的框架内相互依赖。拟议的项目是对多特蒙德和莱比锡两个城市的六个分配花园协会进行的民族志研究。就城市社会生活而言，德国的分配花园仍然具有相当的相关性。这项研究讨论了参与者的共存-团结的日常实践，考虑到他们在分化和冲突过程中对平庸的越轨的作用。