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Poslední úprava: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (20.09.2022)
The course is particularly suited to those with an interest in discourse studies and socio-linguistics. |
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Poslední úprava: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (09.09.2021)
Syllabus This online course alternates two kinds of session: - lectures: introducing key concepts in the pragmatic sociology of critique, usually followed by case studies taken from an actual research project using the concepts introduced in the lecture. Slides and audio recordings will be made available through Moodle for self-study in your own time. - reading groups: reading and group discussion of set texts. We will meet online for reading groups at the scheduled times - Mondays at 18:30 in weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 (via Zoom). It is vital that students prepare for the reading groups, i.e. be ready to give a critical appraisal of the set texts.
Session plans Week 1. Lecture. Introduction: From critical sociology to a sociology of critique - The exigence of justification and the value of studying disputes and crises - Institutions and institutionalisation - The dynamics of critique in the tension between ‘is’ and ‘should be’ (Boltanski) or ‘confidence in’ and ‘could be’ (Thévenot)
Week 2. Reading group. On Critique, chapter 3: The Power of Institutions.
Week 3. Lecture. Confirmation and critique: the concept of test (épreuve) Case study. Truth and reality tests: why is it difficult to extend truth tests to reality tests in evaluative research? Case study reference: Smith, S., Ward, V. & Kabele, J. (2014) Critically evaluating collaborative research: Why is it difficult to extend truth tests to reality tests? Social Science Information 53(3): 374-402.
Week 4. Reading group. On Critique, chapter 4: The Necessity of Critique.
Week 5. Lecture. Judgement, qualification and evaluation as routine practices Case study. Frontline professional knowledge work: the classificatory and inferential judgements of online discussion administrators Case study reference: Smith, S. (2017) Discussing the News: The Uneasy Alliance between Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public. London: Palgrave. Chapter 4.
Week 6. Reading group. On Justification, Preface: How we wrote this book.
Week 7. Lecture. Perception and intuition Case study. Collective practices of vigilance: activating the social web's affordances as a facilitator of critical testing and proving Case study reference: Smith, S. (2017) Discussing the News: The Uneasy Alliance between Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public. London: Palgrave. Chapter 6.
Week 8. Reading group. Bessy & Chateauraynaud, Being attentive to things, chapter 3. From the phenomenology of perception to a pragmatic approach to people's sense of things.
Week 9. Lecture. Orders of worth as specifications of the common good Case study. Judgements of competence and the competence to judge: medical, legal and journalistic constructions of mental illness Case study reference: Smith, S. (2021) Storifying routines and routinising stories. A dualistic subject positioning analysis of controversies about constraints on patient autonomy. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 51: 145-163.
Week 10. Reading group. On Justification, chapter 3: Political Orders and a Model of Justice.
Week 11. Lecture. Existential tests and familiar regimes of engagement - The role of emotion and passion in critique and the access of personal attachments to public criticism
Week 12. 'Listening' group. You call yourself the caring professions? Conflicts and compromises between points of view in the Alder Hey scandal (radio recording).
Prerequisites Some knowledge of critical sociology is recommendable.
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