Drafts by Aleksander Manterys
The aim of the article is to show social recognition as a relational property of human interactio... more The aim of the article is to show social recognition as a relational property of human interactions, and more precisely, as constituting and maintaining the views desired by actors of events, including positional images of oneself in particular situational stages or installments.
The analysis involves several steps. The first is an outline of an alternative perspective on generating social recognition. Its starting point is Cooley’s conception, understood as a theoretical alternative to Honneth’s microsociological addressing of social recognition, which, in a way, completes the Hegelian pedigree of Honneth’s own interpretation of social recognition through the reconstruction of Mead’s views. The second step is to point out heuristically fertile continuations and transformations of Cooley’s ideas by referring to the findings of Goffman and Scheff (self-presentation as a component of experience management), Garfinkel (maintaining background expectancies), and Collins (shaping and sustaining chains of interaction rituals). The third step is a kind of deconstruction referring to the transactional understanding of social life, based on Dewey’s transactionalism, Wiley’s inner speech concept, and Dépelteau’s processual-transactional version of relational sociology.
The category of paradigm appears, apparently contrary to Kuhn and his commentators' intentions , ... more The category of paradigm appears, apparently contrary to Kuhn and his commentators' intentions , usually as a marker of dissimilarities within the discipline's standards, a prop substantiated on the stage, similar to Homans' stimulus from the second social exchange proposition: its presence, in whatever form compatible with the stimulus generalization rule, is concurrent with activity leading to success. Leaving aside the question if any science can be normal (according to Kuhn), the main issue is to decide whether the science/scientific discipline creates a common theoretical reference system, a framework organizing the practices of its agents. In case of sociology we usually speak of its multiparadigmatic character, which describes a situation when there are various theoretical-research perspectives achieving the paradigm status, with mutually rivaling views on the social world and its proper investigative strategies, at the same time stimulating the quality that is considered a development, or respectively, increased creativity within the disciplinary matrix. Adapting a slightly subsequent stylistics, what is important is if there are being formed scientific research programs that would promise not only codification of scientific knowledge, but also positive problem shifting (see: Lakatos 1970), signifying a change within management of scientific production (see , or reorganizing the sphere of key issues, both the ones firmly embedded in sociological tradition, and the ones that fuel dynamics of the contemporary theoretical debates.
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Drafts by Aleksander Manterys
The analysis involves several steps. The first is an outline of an alternative perspective on generating social recognition. Its starting point is Cooley’s conception, understood as a theoretical alternative to Honneth’s microsociological addressing of social recognition, which, in a way, completes the Hegelian pedigree of Honneth’s own interpretation of social recognition through the reconstruction of Mead’s views. The second step is to point out heuristically fertile continuations and transformations of Cooley’s ideas by referring to the findings of Goffman and Scheff (self-presentation as a component of experience management), Garfinkel (maintaining background expectancies), and Collins (shaping and sustaining chains of interaction rituals). The third step is a kind of deconstruction referring to the transactional understanding of social life, based on Dewey’s transactionalism, Wiley’s inner speech concept, and Dépelteau’s processual-transactional version of relational sociology.