SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Doxa, Social Actions, Structuration Theory
15 Jun 2018
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January 24, 2017
Structuration theory:
- Social action – a continuous flow of conduct
- Social action:
o Recursive practices
o Discursive and practical consciousness
o Reflexive knowledgeability
▪ Chronically and continually monitor our actions and others actions
o Duality of structure
▪ Structure enables and constrains
Bourdieusian Theory:
- Structuralist constructivism:
o Field
o Capital (economic, social, cultural, symbolic)
o Habitus
- Structured structures functioning as structuring structures/field
Reflexivity:
- Reflexive monitoring of social action
- Reflexive knowledge
o “objectivising” the social world
o Terms, language, and discourse
o Making the implicit explicit – unveiling doxa
Perceptions of work:
- 1945-1973 – economic growth – the post-industrial society
- 1973-1980 – stagflation – shift from Keynesian to neo-liberal economic policies
- 1980-2008 – post-Fordism
- 2008-2017 – the future of paid work?
Work and classical political economy:
- Political economy emerges with growth of market society
- Still a society understood within a larger moral context (“natural rights,” Christian
values)
- Moral context changing – dickens’ (1812-1870) novels capture contrasting values or
moral systems.
- Political economy begins with holistic conception of work and its location within society
- By mid-nineteenth century focus shifts to the “science” of production and wealth creation
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Social action a continuous flow of conduct. Social action: recursive practices, discursive and practical consciousness, reflexive knowledgeability, chronically and continually monitor our actions and others actions, duality of structure, structure enables and constrains. Structuralist constructivism: field, capital (economic, social, cultural, symbolic, habitus. Reflexive knowledge: objectivising the social world, terms, language, and discourse, making the implicit explicit unveiling doxa. 1945-1973 economic growth the post-industrial society. 1973-1980 stagflation shift from keynesian to neo-liberal economic policies. Political economy emerges with growth of market society. Still a society understood within a larger moral context ( natural rights, christian values) Moral context changing dickens" (1812-1870) novels capture contrasting values or moral systems. Political economy begins with holistic conception of work and its location within society. By mid-nineteenth century focus shifts to the science of production and wealth creation. The wealth of nations puts wealth production within larger moral framework.
