Person, Context, Action (1984) Conformity, Improvisation and Contextual Creativity 1.1 Persons together with interpretative interpersonal contexts generate action through our co-constitutive human determinate potentialities for “conformity,” “improvisation,” and “contextual” (a.k.a. “directly reconstructive”) creativity.” 1.2 In conformity interpretative contexts program action.… Conformity rigidly follows and obeys. It enacts the given. People have “nothing of their own […]
A Dream of Reason- VI Part 6- Personal-Interpersonal Field Revisited
The Personal-Interpersonal Field Revisited (1995) 1 1.1 Sorokin argues that to actualize sociology as a science requires openness to its autonomous requirements: Many sociological empiricists still regard sociology as an alter ego of the natural sciences, particularly of the physico-chemical sciences, in its structure, method and referential principles. If the claims advanced by this school […]
A Dream of Reason IV. Part 7- A Room of our Own (Dialogical)
A Room of our Own (1984) 1 The explicitly dialogical orientation opens when sociology-psychology breaks subordination to science, seeks self-knowledge and recognizes itself as an autonomous discipline and as a distinct modality of theoretical reason (open to learn from art, history, science, etc., yet belonging to itself). The generative project of dialogical sociology-psychology is […]
A Dream of Reason V. Wild Flowers Again Part 1 Retrospective Field Notes on the Sociology of the Early Sixties
V. Wild flowers Again: A Dialogue of Complementary Discontinuity Retrospective Field Notes on the Sociology of the Early Sixties (1988) Opening 1.1 1.11 Here thought – as a caged animal – sniffs and turns in a cage. Again and again it touches the barrier and turns back. The essay ends (I cannot say concludes) with […]
A Dream of Reason V- Part 2 On Violence as a Species of Unreasonable Objectivity
On Violence as a Species of Unreasonable Objectivity (1985) 1 Reason and objectivity are commonly interpreted as necessarily interdependent. We follow a line of traditional usage that identifies objectivity with the capacity to impose on all sane sapient consciousness. Sapient consciousness is inherently “cultural.” Thus to impose on all sapient consciousness is to impose on […]
A Dream of Reason V- Part 3 A Trip to Shadowland
A Trip to Shadowland (2003) When I was a graduate student, in the early 1960s, a professor told me about his research project. His task was to determine how the governing politicians could reassert control when they emerged after a nuclear war. (My doubt that this would be advisable was dismissed as “merely subjective.”) I […]
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