For a Sociology of Flesh and Blood
This article elaborates the social ontology and methodology of carnal sociology as a distinctive mode of social inquiry eschewing the spectatorial posture to grasp action-in-the-making, in the wake of debates triggered by my apprenticeship-based study of boxing as a plebeian bodily craft. First I cr...
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This article elaborates the social ontology and methodology of carnal sociology as a distinctive mode of social inquiry eschewing the spectatorial posture to grasp action-in-the-making, in the wake of debates triggered by my apprenticeship-based study of boxing as a plebeian bodily craft. First I critique the notions of (dualist) agent, (externalist) structure, and (mentalist) knowledge prevalent in the contemporary social sciences and sketch an alternative conception of the social animal, not just as wielder of symbols, but as sensate, suffering, skilled, sedimented, and situated creature of flesh and blood. I spotlight the primacy of embodied practical knowledge arising out of and continuously enmeshed in webs of action and consider what modes of inquiry are suited to deploying and mining this incarnate conception of the agent. I argue that enactive ethnography, the brand of immersive fieldwork based on “performing the phenomenon,” is a fruitful path toward capturing the cognitive, conative, and cathectic schemata (habitus) that generate the practices and underlie the cosmos under investigation. But it takes social spunk and persistence to reap the rewards of “observant participation” and achieve social competency (as distinct from empirical saturation). In closing, I return to Bourdieu’s dialogue with Pascal to consider the special difficulty and urgency of capturing the “spirit of acuteness” that animates such competency but vanishes from normal sociological accounts. [As published in Loïc Wacquant Qual. Sociol. (2015) 38:1–11] |
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I10-R10-article-241662022-08-24T15:41:27Z For a Sociology of Flesh and Blood Por una Sociología de carne y sangre Wacquant, Loic Acción Estructura Conocimiento Cuerpo Encarnación Habitus Ontología social Participación observante Etnografía enactiva Bourdieu Pascal. Action Structure Knowledge Body Incarnation Habitus Social Ontology Observant participation Enactive ethnography Bourdieu Pascal This article elaborates the social ontology and methodology of carnal sociology as a distinctive mode of social inquiry eschewing the spectatorial posture to grasp action-in-the-making, in the wake of debates triggered by my apprenticeship-based study of boxing as a plebeian bodily craft. First I critique the notions of (dualist) agent, (externalist) structure, and (mentalist) knowledge prevalent in the contemporary social sciences and sketch an alternative conception of the social animal, not just as wielder of symbols, but as sensate, suffering, skilled, sedimented, and situated creature of flesh and blood. I spotlight the primacy of embodied practical knowledge arising out of and continuously enmeshed in webs of action and consider what modes of inquiry are suited to deploying and mining this incarnate conception of the agent. I argue that enactive ethnography, the brand of immersive fieldwork based on “performing the phenomenon,” is a fruitful path toward capturing the cognitive, conative, and cathectic schemata (habitus) that generate the practices and underlie the cosmos under investigation. But it takes social spunk and persistence to reap the rewards of “observant participation” and achieve social competency (as distinct from empirical saturation). In closing, I return to Bourdieu’s dialogue with Pascal to consider the special difficulty and urgency of capturing the “spirit of acuteness” that animates such competency but vanishes from normal sociological accounts. [As published in Loïc Wacquant Qual. Sociol. (2015) 38:1–11] Este artículo elabora la ontología social y la metodología de la sociología carnal como un modo distintivo de indagación social, evitando la postura espectadora para captar la acción-en-proceso, a raíz de los debates desencadenados por mi estudio basado en el aprendizaje del boxeo como un arte corporal plebeyo. Primero critico las nociones de agente (dualista), estructura (externalista) y conocimiento (mentalista) que prevalecen en las ciencias sociales contemporáneas y esbozo una concepción alternativa del animal social, no solo como portadora de símbolos, sino como una criatura de carne y sangre, sensible, sufirente, hábil, sedimentada y situada criatura de carne y hueso. Destaco la primacía de los conocimientos prácticos incorporados que surgen y se enredan continuamente en redes de acción y considero qué modos de investigación son adecuados para desplegar y extraer esta concepción encarnada del agente. Sostengo que la etnografía performativa, la marca del trabajo de campo inmersivo basado en “realizar el fenómeno”, es un camino fructífero hacia la captura de los esquemas (habitus) cognitivos, conativos y catécticos que generan las prácticas y subyacen en el cosmos que se está investigando. Pero se necesita talento social y persistencia para obtener los beneficios de la “participación observante” y lograr la competencia social (a diferencia de la saturación empírica). Para concluir, vuelvo al diálogo de Bourdieu con Pascal para considerar la dificultad y la urgencia especiales de capturar el “espíritu de agudeza” que anima dicha competencia pero desaparece de los relatos sociológicas normales. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología 2019-04-30 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer reviewed article Artículo revisado por pares Artigo revisado por pares application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/24166 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol 12 (2019) NÚMERO 1; 117-124 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol 12 (2019) NÚMERO 1; 117-124 Revista del Museo de Antropología; Vol 12 (2019) NÚMERO 1; 117-124 1852-4826 1852-060X 10.31048/1852.4826.v12.n1 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/24166/23588 Derechos de autor 2019 Loic Wacquant |