Publication details
Soziale Ordnung als Kippbild. Klassische und neuere Perspektiven
| Title in English | Social order as ambiguous image. Classical and newer perspectives |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Hermeneutische Blätter |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://www.hermeneutische-blaetter.uzh.ch/article/view/3074 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.51686/HBl.2021.1.7 |
| Keywords | Émile Durkheim; Bernhard Giesen; liminality; ambivalence; ambiguity; social norm; sociology of the extraordinary |
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| Description | This paper adresses ambiguous images of social dis/order, theories in which social order and its "other" are creatively related to each other. I will discuss classical and newer approaches, first of all the earlier as well as the late work of Émile Durkheim, both of which develope a genuine perspective on social order. The early Durkheim conceptualizes social order as normative order, the late Durkheim as religious order, in which the collective sacred is radically seperated from the profane or mundane world of the individual, but also its foundation and transgression. This line of thought found its continuation in the works of the College de Sociologie, especially with George Bataille, as well as social anthropology, for example Viktor Turner and Mary Douglas. And it served as theoretical foundation for the sociology of the extraordinary of Bernhard Giesen, who conceptualizes society as cultural order, an order of differences that relies on ambivalence and ambiguity. |