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Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard (ed.): Chinese Politics as Fragmented Authoritarianism: Earthquakes, Energy and Environment.
Get PDFMod en pragmatisk sociologi om fysisk vold
Get PDFDenne artikel tager afsæt i en kritik af sociologiske studier af vold, der peger
på kulturelle og sociale baggrundsvariable, når voldelige gerninger skal forklares.
Disse studier analyserer sjældent volden som en kompleks og mangefacetteret
social handling, der kalder på teoretiske forklaringer. Som et
delvist svar på denne forsømmelse introduceres til den franske sociolog Luc
Boltanskis »tilnærmede udkast« til en handlingsteori om vold, som er en del
af en større handlingssociologi, der præsenteres i bogen Love and Justice as
Competences. Der peges dog på et grundlæggende konceptuelt problem i Boltanskis
udkast til en teori om vold, som forsøges afhjulpet ved at integrere en
fænomenologisk distinktion mellem henholdsvis lokativ, raptiv og autotelisk
vold heri. Hensigten er at rekonstruere grundlaget for en pragmatisk sociologi
om vold – funderet i en distinktion mellem (først og fremmest) voldens
fysiske former. Formålet med denne rekonstruktion er at gøre fransk pragmatisk
sociologi anvendelig i studiet af situationer, hvor vold spiller en rolle.
Herved åbnes op for sociologisk analyse af en handlingsform, som har været
tildelt sparsom opmærksomhed i sociologien.
ENGELSK ABSTRACT
Mikkel Kronborg Jønck:
Towards a pragmatic sociology of physical violence
This article begins with a critique of a number of sociological studies of violence
that use cultural or social background variables as primary explanations
for the causes of violence. Sociological studies of violence rarely analyze
violence itself or violent situations as complex and multifaceted social actions
that need to be theorized. As a partial response to this lack of theory, the article
presents the French sociologist Luc Boltanski’s »approximated outline« of a
theory of violence from the book Love and Justice as Competences. However, the
article identifies a fundamental conceptual problem in Boltanski’s approach,
and offers a suggestion for overcoming it by integrating a phenomenological
distinction between locative, raptive and autotelic violence. The article attempts
to reconstruct the foundation of a pragmatic theory of violence based,
first and foremost, on a distinction between three physical forms of violence.
The purpose of this reconstruction is to render French pragmatic sociology
useful in studies of situations in which violence is present, and to encourage
studies of a form of action that has largely been neglected by sociology.
Keywords: Luc Boltanski, violence, French pragmatic sociology, Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Bruce Moghtader, Foucault and Educational Ethics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) ISBN 978-1-137-57495-4
Get PDFClash of Emotions: White House—State Department Relations during the Kennedy Administration
Get PDFThis article examines the rather poor emotional relationship between the White House and the State Department during 1961, the first year of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. The article argues that both sides had expectations of the relationship that turned into disappointments and that both sides felt that their approach and work was superior to the other. During the Berlin Crisis, this clash of emotions gained political significance concerning the case of the American response to a Soviet formal diplomatic note (an aide-mémoire) following the June 1961 Vienna Summit between Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. The White House and the State Department had different priorities and because of the poor emotional relationship they failed to find common ground. The end result was that the State Department won the battle by having its preferred version of the response sent to the Soviets. But the Department lost the war, because the White House used the opportunity to take control of Berlin policy at the expense of the State Department
