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
Bruner’s situated action
interrelated subject positions
from Ortner’s point of view
sociocultural level from Crawford’s and Chaffin’s point of view
Bruner’s symbolic systems
of the culture social life is socially organized and construed from Ortner’s point of view
Our starting point:
To understand our interviewees’ lives/decisions/accounts we have to take into consideration:
The person and the agency/intentional states/goals – the ways s/he handles cultural systems (rules, meanings, cultural models, etc. )
Social pratices and situated actions
Culture– how it ‘organizes’ situated practices (not only meanings, but rules, roles, objectives, and so forth)
Coding for NR
1. To touch upon the themes suggested by Cathrine: Important issues to understand leaving
Change in universities 1960-today
Career path
Workplace environment
Family
Mobility
Identity
Future
2. To meet our specific reseach interests:
Social practices, cultural models, decisions and agency, etc.
Hot research issue: to choose the right codes
specific enough, broad enough!
Interesting preliminary findings for our NR
Research practices
Cultural models
Sexual harassment
Stereotypes
Changes in physics & in the university
Reasons for leaving
Hierarchy & competition
Endogamic couples/heavy workload
Mobility
Getting into physics
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.
