996001 Interdisciplinary Seminar: Working with/on Social Practices (IS) (SoSe 2012)

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In current methodological debates among historians, but increasingly also among sociologists, theories of social practices appear as a potential for the reconciliation of some of the most haunting contradictions between opposing theoretical strands: They stand for the combination of structure and agency, the return of the human actor, the mediation between discourse and agency, and for an insertion of “the material” into culture in a form alternative to Bruno Latour’s loudly acclaimed, but limited actor-network-theory. Our seminar will undertake to account for the current state-of-the-art and to localize points of departure for further developments by discussing central texts.

In der derzeitigen Theoriedebatte in der Geschichte, aber auch zunehmend in der Soziologie, werden praxistheoretische Ansätze nicht selten als zukunftsträchtiger Ausweg aus den verschiedensten methodologischen Dilemmata angeführt: als Möglichkeit, Struktur und Handeln miteinander zu vereinbaren, als Tor für die Rückkehr des menschlichen Akteurs, als Perspektive der Vermittlung von Sprache und Handeln, als zu Bruno Latour alternatives Transportvehikel für das Materielle in der Kultur. Das Seminar wird versuchen, anhand zentraler Texte eine Bilanz der Entwicklung zu ziehen und weiterführende Perspektiven aufzuzeigen.

Bibliography

- Emirbayer, Mustafa, and Ann Mische. “What Is Agency?” American Journal of Sociology 103, no. 4 (1998): 962–1023.
- Hörning, Karl H., and Julia Reuter. “Doing Material Culture. Soziale Praxis als Ausgangspunkt einer ‘realistischen’ Kulturanalyse.” In Kultur - Medien - Macht. Cultural Studies und Medienanalyse, edited by Andreas Hepp and Rainer Winter, 109–123. 4th ed. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2008.
- Meier, Michael. “Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis. Eine ‘Theorie sozialer Praktiken’?” In Doing Culture. Neue Positionen zum Verhältnis von Kultur und sozialer Praxis, edited by Karl H. Hörning and Julia Reuter, 55–69. Bielefeld: transcript, 2004.
- Reckwitz, Andreas. “Grundelemente einer Theorie sozialer Praktiken. Eine sozialtheoretische Perspektive.” Zeitschrift für Soziologie 32, no. 4 (2003): 282–301.
- Reckwitz, Andreas. “Towards a Theory of Social Practices. A Development in Culturalist Theorizing.” European Journal of Social Theory 5, no. 2 (2002): 243–263.
- Thévenot, Laurent. “Power and Oppression from the Perspective of the Sociology of Engagements: A Comparison with Bourdieu’s and Dewey’s Critical Approaches to Practical Activities.” Irish Journal of Sociology 19, no. 1 (2011): 35–67.
- Welskopp, Thomas. “Die Dualität von Struktur und Handeln. Anthony Giddens’ Strukturierungstheorie als ‘praxeologischer’ Ansatz in der Geschichtswissenschaft.” In Struktur und Ereignis, edited by Andreas Suter and Manfred Hettling, 99–119. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001.
- Welskopp, Thomas. “Sprache und Kommunikation in praxistheoretischen Geschichtsansätzen.” Unveröffentlichtes Manuskript. Bielefeld, 2005.

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every two weeks Mi 16-18 K4-129 25.04.-13.07.2012

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Degree programme/academic programme Validity Variant Subdivision Status Semester LP  
Bielefeld Graduate School In History And Sociology / Promotion Theory and Methods Classes   Theory Class. Can be credited for Stream A as 1 from 2 necessary SWS.  
Geschichtswissenschaft / Promotion    

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