3. Agency, that is, actors play with skill, intention, wit, knowledge, intelligence.
4. The idea that the game is serious is meant to add into the equation the idea that power and inequality pervade the games of life in multiple ways
5. There is never only one game
The challenge is to picture indissoluble formations of structurally embedded agency and intention-filled structures, to recognize the ways in which the subject is part of larger social and cultural webs, and in which social and cultural ‘systems’ are predicated upon human desires and projects.
The challenge is to picture indissoluble formations of structurally embedded agency and intention-filled structures, to recognize the ways in which the subject is part of larger social and cultural webs, and in which social and cultural ‘systems’ are predicated upon human desires and projects.
(Subaltern practice theory) is not a theory, rather it is a project, a way of trying conceptually and representationally to mimic social life itself as a ‘moving unity of subjectivity and objectivity’ (like projects for Sartre).
(Subaltern practice theory) is not a theory, rather it is a project, a way of trying conceptually and representationally to mimic social life itself as a ‘moving unity of subjectivity and objectivity’ (like projects for Sartre).
individual level from Crawford’s and Chaffin’s point of view
individual level from Crawford’s and Chaffin’s point of view
Bruner’s intentional states
agency from Ortner’s point of view
interactional level from Crawford’s and Chaffin’s point of view
Implicit social practice: to show/defend your knowledge
We found an interesting social practice, that could be related to the identity of physicists: you always have to be able to answer the questions people ask you
The ideal physicists is the person who knows everything, so if you want to be considered a physicist, you have to know everything, or to show that you know, and to defend your claims.
Implicit social practice: to show/defend your knowledge
SHORT RIVER 7: The worst thing that I often see in people in this environment, how can I put it ? Someone told me [unclear] : -Whenever someone asks you a question, never say you don’t know. I think it’s an overstatement, I mean this ‘never to loose control thing’, always to show that you know things. (..)
When you are doing a seminar, people here often ask you questions not because they want to know something, but in order to show that they followed the seminar, and with this question they show you they do this thing; that’s something I don’t like.
Implicit social practice: to show/defend your knowledge
It’s not like ‘I want to be an eternal student that doesn’t know’ I mean, in my field, I specialize in certain things and I can stand for these things; if I have to discuss them with someone I can defend what I know but then, when I get to a point when I don’t know much about a certain issue, I don’t feel that it’s hard for me to say: -You’re may be right; whereas sometimes I see people who find it difficult.
