Fiction and Social Knowledge : Towards a Strong Program in the Sociology of Literature

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://sociologica.hse.ru/data/2020/12/31/1346289513/RusSocRev_19_4_14-35_Vana.pdf" target="_blank" >https://sociologica.hse.ru/data/2020/12/31/1346289513/RusSocRev_19_4_14-35_Vana.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2020-4-14-35" target="_blank" >10.17323/1728-192x-2020-4-14-35</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Fiction and Social Knowledge : Towards a Strong Program in the Sociology of Literature

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Following the strong program in cultural sociology, I propose a strong program in the sociology of liter-ature, which treats literary pieces rightly as relatively autonomous cultural entities and “independent var-iables”. To outline the epistemological foundations of the new research program, I compare how social knowledge comes into existence through the sociological text and the text of literary fiction. I discuss the representation of social reality in interpretive research, with Isaac Reed’s book Interpretation and Social Knowledge as a starting point. To claim literary autonomy, I outline some of the aspects which social the-ory shares with literary fiction. I am mainly interested in how social theory and literary fiction mediate social knowledge to their readers via the aesthetic experience. I identify two main categories of social knowledge mediated by literature: existential understanding and Zeitgeist. Discussing the sociological treatment of several novels, I look at how these two categories intertwine and support each other to create colorful, sensitive, but also robust and deep social knowledge, which condenses aesthetic, existential, and non-discursive aspects of social experience together with the “big picture” of whole societies. I argue that only by overcoming the often-assumed inferiority of literature in sociological research can sociology real-ize its full potential in understanding the meanings of social life.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Fiction and Social Knowledge : Towards a Strong Program in the Sociology of Literature

Popis výsledku anglicky

Following the strong program in cultural sociology, I propose a strong program in the sociology of liter-ature, which treats literary pieces rightly as relatively autonomous cultural entities and “independent var-iables”. To outline the epistemological foundations of the new research program, I compare how social knowledge comes into existence through the sociological text and the text of literary fiction. I discuss the representation of social reality in interpretive research, with Isaac Reed’s book Interpretation and Social Knowledge as a starting point. To claim literary autonomy, I outline some of the aspects which social the-ory shares with literary fiction. I am mainly interested in how social theory and literary fiction mediate social knowledge to their readers via the aesthetic experience. I identify two main categories of social knowledge mediated by literature: existential understanding and Zeitgeist. Discussing the sociological treatment of several novels, I look at how these two categories intertwine and support each other to create colorful, sensitive, but also robust and deep social knowledge, which condenses aesthetic, existential, and non-discursive aspects of social experience together with the “big picture” of whole societies. I argue that only by overcoming the often-assumed inferiority of literature in sociological research can sociology real-ize its full potential in understanding the meanings of social life.

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J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Russian Sociological Review – Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie

ISSN

1728-192X

e-ISSN

1728-1938

Svazek periodika

19

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

RU - Ruská federace

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

14-35

Kód UT WoS článku

000605028500002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85100035362