Hughes, J, Saramago, A, Dunning, M et al. (1 more author) (2022) FIELDS, WORLDS AND FIGURATIONS: USING ELIAS TO REVISIT DEPTH CONCEPTUAL IMAGERY AND EMANCIPATORY CRITIQUE. Sociologia & Antropologia, 12 (1). pp. 53-80. ISSN 2236-7527
Abstract
We centrally explore the significance of conceptual imagery, particularly ideas of ‘depth’ and its relationship to ideals of critique, emancipatory action, and conceptions of social structure and action. We consider how depth imagery is invoked in critiques of sociological thinkers understood to employ ‘flat’ social ontologies. We develop a three-way comparison between Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘field,’ Howard Becker’s ‘world,’ and Norbert Elias’s ‘figuration’ to argue that not only is the ‘flatness’ charge unwarranted in the case of Becker’s and Elias’s ontologies, but the axioms upon which it is made are static, substantialist, and reductively mechanistic. Drawing on the work of Elias, we consider the merits of alternative more dynamically oriented conceptual imagery, reflecting upon its implications for how we might revisit the ‘politics’ of figurational sociology and understandings of emancipatory critique more generally.
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Keywords: | conceptual imagery; depth; figurational sociology; emancipatory critique |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) H333250001 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) ES/K007661/1 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) NOT GIVEN ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) RES-164-25-0018 Department of Health Accounts Payable - SULEEDSUNI RAC00077 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2022 15:00 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2022 15:00 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
Identification Number: | 10.1590/2238-38752022v1212 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188133 |