Social Ontology, Cultural Sociology and the War on Terror. Towards a Cultural Explanation of Institutional Change

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Social Ontology, Cultural Sociology and the War on Terror. Towards a Cultural Explanation of Institutional Change

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This chapter offers a cultural sociological reading of Searle?s social ontology and a case study from the War on Terror. A brief conceptual introduction is followed by a proposal for a more cultural understanding of Searle?s background that also includesrepresentational elements. Such a conception might prove useful to explain complex institutional and societal changes. This understanding of the background will be substantiated by an empirical study of the symbolic impact of 9/11 and the Abu Ghraib scandal. First, it is argued that the growing legitimacy of torture after the terrorist attack is an effect of a specific narrative background pattern: the ticking bomb scenario. Second, it is shown how the visual properties of the Abu Ghraib images in relation to the cultural background of the United States triggered the prison scandal in 2004. The photographs documenting the abuse not only shocked the collective conscience but subverted the predominant ticking bomb narrative.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Social Ontology, Cultural Sociology and the War on Terror. Towards a Cultural Explanation of Institutional Change

Popis výsledku anglicky

This chapter offers a cultural sociological reading of Searle?s social ontology and a case study from the War on Terror. A brief conceptual introduction is followed by a proposal for a more cultural understanding of Searle?s background that also includesrepresentational elements. Such a conception might prove useful to explain complex institutional and societal changes. This understanding of the background will be substantiated by an empirical study of the symbolic impact of 9/11 and the Abu Ghraib scandal. First, it is argued that the growing legitimacy of torture after the terrorist attack is an effect of a specific narrative background pattern: the ticking bomb scenario. Second, it is shown how the visual properties of the Abu Ghraib images in relation to the cultural background of the United States triggered the prison scandal in 2004. The photographs documenting the abuse not only shocked the collective conscience but subverted the predominant ticking bomb narrative.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

AO - Sociologie, demografie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2013

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Background of Social Reality

ISBN

9789400756007

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

163-181

Počet stran knihy

251

Název nakladatele

Springer

Místo vydání

Heidelberg; New York; London

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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