Barbara A Misztal
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 245441 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Barbara A Misztal |
| PRENOMES | Barbara A |
| SOBRENOME | Misztal |
| ASSINATURA | MISZTAL B A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 281 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Relevance of Civility Today
The paper emphasizes the contemporary relevance of civility, understood as a respectful way of treating the other and recognition of people’s differences and sensibilities. It outlines the sociological importance of civility as being connected with its role as both a normative guidance orienting us towards prescriptive ideals and as an empirical concept with important social impact on identities and actions. The paper examines Adam Smith’s theory…
Strategic Curiosity
Intellectual strategies change in response to broader socio-political transformations of the world and the development of new means of communication. In today’s complex and fragmented intellectual landscape, public intellectuals perform various functions and conceive different strategies. As traditional public intellectuals are finding it much harder to argue with authority, thought leaders, or new for-profit thinkers linked to ideologically driv…
Memory’s role in lending meaning to migrants’ lives
This article argues that our understanding of the complexity of the links between memory and migration can be enhanced by focusing on the role of experience in lending meaning to migrants’ lives. Realizing the difficulties of providing a comprehensive sociological account of experience and recognizing the potential of works of fiction to enrich sociological imagination, this article will try to capture details of people’s experiences with the hel…
Memory on the move
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The Ambiguity of Everyday Experience
This paper asserts that the growing expansion of the micro realm of social activity calls for the exploration of everyday experience, seen as ranging from the most extraordinary to the most ordinary. The paper focuses on two constitutive features of the ordinary type of experience, namely, normality and boredom. It conceptualizes normality as an outcome of people’s potential to construct meaning of their ordinary experiences and boredom as a stat…
Against Sociology as a Wonder-Free Zone
Sociological Imagination and Literary Intuition
The paper argues that if imagination is paramount for sociology's status and if literary intuition is a source of such imagination, we should rethink the value of literary insight for social analyses. It reviews the changing relationship between literature and sociology and shows how sociology can draw from literature as a starting point for understanding the social world and a way of invigorating sociological imagination. By framing the digital …
Multiple Normalities
Multiple Normalities enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. It demonstrates commonalities and differences between the meanings of normali
Political Forgiveness’ Transformative Potentials
The idea of dignity
The aim of this article is to bring to social theorists' attention the growing visibility of the notion of dignity within human rights legislation, bioethics and public discourse generally, as well as to evaluate this term's potential to enhance our capacities to respond to old and new challenges. The article starts with a short presentation of the career of the concept and discussion of the various impasses and conceptual tensions connected with…
Introduction
Public Intellectuals and Think Tanks
Forgiveness and the construction of new conditions for a common life
This paper will contribute to the debate on reconciliation by enhancing the understanding of the relationship between forgiveness and trust, memory and justice. Until several decades ago forgiveness was ‘deemed unrealistic and inadmissible in the public realm’. Now, with a political fashion for apologies, forgiveness is seen as the essential condition of political reconciliation. Forgiveness is achieved only by offering trust for the sake of esta…
The Appeal of British Sociology; a View from outside and Inside
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Trust
The paper offers a conceptual analysis of the relationship between trust and vulnerability. It argues that sorting out the meaning of both terms and developing further our understanding how they are connected are one of the important tasks of the social science. Trust is usually defined as confidence that partners will not exploit each others' vulnerability. While stressing that vulnerability cannot be conceived as a single continuum, the paper v…
Narrative's Reliance on Memory
This paper adds to Hyvärinen's (this issue) argument that narrative interest emerged from many separate incentives and sources in the social sciences. I expand his claim by suggesting that the rise of 'the narrative turn' has been helped by the popularity of the concept of collective memory across the humanities and social sciences, and that a further interdisciplinary exchange between the sociology of memory and narrative studies can benefit bot…
Commentary on Israel
Collective Memory in a Global Age
This article argues that attempts to conceptualize the memory boom in amnesic societies have resulted in a clash between two theoretical stands: the approach which stresses the significance of remembering and the perspective which insists on the value of forgetting. It asserts that neither the value of memory nor the value of forgetting can be taken for granted and argues that any search for possible resolutions to the dialectical relationship be…
A Nobel Trinity
Ambiguities and Clichés in the Debate about Public Intellectuals
This paper's purpose is to exam Turner's (2006a) thesis that Britain neither produced its own public intellectuals nor a distinctive sociology. It aims to outline difficulties with the logic of Turner's argument rather than to discuss any particular public intellectual in Britain. The paper argues that Turner's claim about the comparative insignificance of public intellectuals in Britain reinforces the myth of British exceptionalism and overlooks…
The Hard Sell
Identity in Democracy - A. Gutmann
The Politics of Identity. Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Difference - Michael Kenny
Hope and Memory
The new importance of the relationship between formality and informality
Arguing that the fruitful approach to a reworking of the social depends upon forging an alliance between sociological theory and feminist theory, the paper analyses strands in sociological thinking which are responsible for renewed interest in the 'social'. The first perspective, as developed by Touraine, Urry, Bauman and Castells, formulates a new agenda for 'sociology beyond the social' and emphasizes the limitations of the concept of 'the soci…
Normality and Trust in Goffman's Theory of Interaction Order
The article asserts that Goffman's concept of normality comes close to the notion of trust as a protective mechanism that prevents chaos and disorder by providing us with feelings of safety, certainty, and familiarity. Arguing that to account for the tendency of social order to be seen as normal we need to conceptualize trust as the routine background of everyday interaction, the article analyzes Goffman's concepts of normal appearances, stigma, …
Durkheim on Collective Memory
The paper argues that although Durkheim did not explicitly employ the notion of collective memory, his approach offers a very insightful understanding of the need for historical continuity. Durkheim's belief that every society displays and requires a sense of continuity with the past and that the past confers identity on individuals and groups allows us to see collective memory as one of the elementary forms of social life. The paper presents Dur…
Public Intellectuals and Think Tanks
Collective Memory in a Global Age
This article argues that attempts to conceptualize the memory boom in amnesic societies have resulted in a clash between two theoretical stands: the approach which stresses the significance of remembering and the perspective which insists on the value of forgetting. It asserts that neither the value of memory nor the value of forgetting can be taken for granted and argues that any search for possible resolutions to the dialectical relationship be…
Trust
The paper offers a conceptual analysis of the relationship between trust and vulnerability. It argues that sorting out the meaning of both terms and developing further our understanding how they are connected are one of the important tasks of the social science. Trust is usually defined as confidence that partners will not exploit each others' vulnerability. While stressing that vulnerability cannot be conceived as a single continuum, the paper v…
The Sacralization of Memory
This article argues that today's search for identity, in the context of the rise of a new spirituality and the decline of authoritative memories, facilitates the forging of a new connection between soul and memory and enhances the importance of traumatic memories. Consequently, we witness the sacralization of memory which in unsettled times, when memories tend to become fixed and frozen, can undermine intergroup cooperation. The article asserts t…
Memory and Democracy
This article reconstructs and evaluates prevalent assumptions in the literature about links between collective memory and democracy. There are widespread assertions that memory is important for democratic community to achieve its potential, avoid dangers of past crimes, and secure its continuation. These assertions assume collective memory as a condition for freedom, justice, and the stability of democratic order. This article considers these ass…
The idea of dignity
The aim of this article is to bring to social theorists' attention the growing visibility of the notion of dignity within human rights legislation, bioethics and public discourse generally, as well as to evaluate this term's potential to enhance our capacities to respond to old and new challenges. The article starts with a short presentation of the career of the concept and discussion of the various impasses and conceptual tensions connected with…
Trust and cooperation
The current deficit of trust in the working of democracy has been attracting the increasing attention of social scientists. Nevertheless, there is still a conspicuous lack of an integrative theory of trust. Existing literature is united in its recognition that the preferable democratic order should be rooted in trust relations. This assertion that democracy and trust are connected is based on the assumption that either civil society or institutio…
Must Eastern Europe follow the Latin American way
Almost a decade after the wave of transformations from authoritarian to democratic regimes started in Latin America, Eastern European countries, one after another, entered the path leading towards democracy. The end of 1989 and the first part of 1990 saw unheard of numbers of free elections in ten Latin American and all East European countries (with the exception of Poland, where freedom of the first election was limited). Moreover, all the newly…
Sociological Imagination and Literary Intuition
The paper argues that if imagination is paramount for sociology's status and if literary intuition is a source of such imagination, we should rethink the value of literary insight for social analyses. It reviews the changing relationship between literature and sociology and shows how sociology can draw from literature as a starting point for understanding the social world and a way of invigorating sociological imagination. By framing the digital …
A Nobel Trinity
The new importance of the relationship between formality and informality
Arguing that the fruitful approach to a reworking of the social depends upon forging an alliance between sociological theory and feminist theory, the paper analyses strands in sociological thinking which are responsible for renewed interest in the 'social'. The first perspective, as developed by Touraine, Urry, Bauman and Castells, formulates a new agenda for 'sociology beyond the social' and emphasizes the limitations of the concept of 'the soci…
The Hard Sell
How not to deal with the past
By looking at the history of the Polish lustration - the policy of checking the past of candidates for important positions - this article argues that although the lustration law has been finally passed at the end of 1998, Poland's dealing with the past is still full of unresolved and deeply ambivalent problems due to the nature of its postcommunist transition and the nature of the newly constructed political institutions. These conditions were sh…
Political Forgiveness’ Transformative Potentials
The Ambiguity of Everyday Experience
This paper asserts that the growing expansion of the micro realm of social activity calls for the exploration of everyday experience, seen as ranging from the most extraordinary to the most ordinary. The paper focuses on two constitutive features of the ordinary type of experience, namely, normality and boredom. It conceptualizes normality as an outcome of people’s potential to construct meaning of their ordinary experiences and boredom as a stat…
Forgiveness and the construction of new conditions for a common life
This paper will contribute to the debate on reconciliation by enhancing the understanding of the relationship between forgiveness and trust, memory and justice. Until several decades ago forgiveness was ‘deemed unrealistic and inadmissible in the public realm’. Now, with a political fashion for apologies, forgiveness is seen as the essential condition of political reconciliation. Forgiveness is achieved only by offering trust for the sake of esta…
Narrative's Reliance on Memory
This paper adds to Hyvärinen's (this issue) argument that narrative interest emerged from many separate incentives and sources in the social sciences. I expand his claim by suggesting that the rise of 'the narrative turn' has been helped by the popularity of the concept of collective memory across the humanities and social sciences, and that a further interdisciplinary exchange between the sociology of memory and narrative studies can benefit bot…
Postcommunist ambivalence
The initial optimistic illusions about the future of postcommunist countries have been cut short by not so encouraging developments in these societies. With the growing awareness that the postcommunist transition cannot be understood as a linear passage to a free market and parliamentary democracy, more attention is paid to the social and economic obstacles as well as to the legacy of real socialism. The feelings of increasing uncertainty about t…
The Notion of Trust in Social Theory
We study what is significant for us and we explain the problems we study in terms of their significance for us” (Abrams 1982:78
Migrant women in Australia
(1991). Migrant Women in Australia. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 50-61
Introduction
The Curious Historical Determinism of Randall Collins
Randall Collins' The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998) examines and compares communities of intellectuals linked as networks in ancient and medieval China and India, medieval and modern Japan, ancient Greece, medieval Islam and Judaism, medieval Christendom and modern Europe. The book has been the subject of many interesting and often positive reflections (for example, European Journal of Social Theory 3 (I)…
Negative Capability or Dealing with the Complexity of the Iraqi War
The paper develops an argument that the growing complexity of information and the widespread distrust of such information have created a need for a new foundation for the development of political action and that this demand has recently been satisfied with the help of the human rights discourse. On the surface of it, the global public's ability to judge and protest against the Iraqi war can be described with the help of Keats's concept of negativ…
Urban Social Problems in Poland
This article examines developmental processes in postwar Poland. The primacy of politics over economy is an ideological principle of socialist systems. Developmental processes, therefore, are controlled by political and not economic logic. After the initial period of political pluralism in Poland (1944-1948), when the improvement of social consumption was outlined as a developmental strategy, the subsequent political programs fostered overindustr…
The Explanatory Utility of Major Sociological Theories Developed in Poland 1970-1980
This paper deals with the sociological theories that developed in Poland during the height of societal expectations for better life and a brighter future. However, the decade of 1970-80 already contained seeds of crisis. The mainstream sociological theories that are analysed here neglected many of the alarming features of the socialist society already to be seen. Instead, the proponents of those theories actively supported the political enterpris…
Images of Barriers to Social Development in Polish Sociological Thought
This article examines the image of barriers to development and change of socialist society, as seen by Polish sociologists. The question of planning and directing social development is of crucial meaning for socialist ideology. Therefore revealing how the ideal type of socialist society confronts both the reality of social pressures and of political restraints illuminates the state of the theory of socialist society. Three types of theories are e…
The State's Capacity to Change
The processes which occurred in the Philippines in 1986 were perceived as similar to the ones which took place in Poland in 1980-1981. This perceived similarity is based on some aspects of the state structure and on the fact that in both cases society rebelled against the regime. By looking into the two cases we analyze the repressive regimes as being a product of a specific constellation of political, social and economic processes which emerge o…
The State's Capacity to Change
Uncontrolled Processes in the Socialist City
The Politics of Economic Reform in Eastern Europe
(1990). The Politics of Economic Reform in Eastern Europe. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 16-29
The Exhaustion and Transformation of State Socialism
A “new” Europe
HIV/Aids in Poland
Eastern Europe's recent revolutions theoretically should provide a new opportunity for communities affected by HIV. By looking at the Polish case I will try to evaluate how these opportunities have been utilized. Although, compared with the numbers of the AIDS cases and the HIV-infected in the West, Polish numbers are small, a lack of proper medical infrastructure and a lack of basic equipment to prevent the spread of AIDS has made the situation …
Hiv/Aids Policies in Australia
Emergencies commonly reveal the disorder from which routine order is painfully extracted. They dramatise social fissures, inconsistencies and ignorance that ordinarily remain hidden or can be ignored without damage or controversy. They transform the taken‐for‐granted into the up‐for‐discussion, compel the formation of decisions and accompanying justifications, and demand action of a special and urgent kind. Using Unger (1988) terminology, we can …
Migrant women in Australia
(1991). Migrant Women in Australia. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 50-61
The Production of Trust in Different Political and Economic Systems
“Man can realize his political freedom only through his own action, by determining the aim and method of political power...Thus the democratic political system is the only one which institutionalizes the activist element of political freedom” (Neumenn 1957: 186)
Why Trust?—Introduction to the Issue
“It has been said that trust is ‘a device for coping with the freedom of others’, but the prime condition of requirements for trust is not lack of power but lack of full information” (Giddens 1990: 33)
The Notion of Trust in Social Theory
We study what is significant for us and we explain the problems we study in terms of their significance for us” (Abrams 1982:78
Must Eastern Europe follow the Latin American way
Almost a decade after the wave of transformations from authoritarian to democratic regimes started in Latin America, Eastern European countries, one after another, entered the path leading towards democracy. The end of 1989 and the first part of 1990 saw unheard of numbers of free elections in ten Latin American and all East European countries (with the exception of Poland, where freedom of the first election was limited). Moreover, all the newly…
Management of HIV/Aids in the Australian federal system
The purpose of this article is to analyse the effect of the federal structure on public health policy in a crisis situation. Federalism has been one of the most important features of the Australian political system shaping AIDS policy because it has created problems with the coordination of policies and has limited the Commonwealth's capacity to introduce a coherent national monitoring, education, protection, testing and legal framework. My main …
Understanding Political Change in Eastern Europe
Change in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union presents a whole new set of sociological problems, requiring a revision of old theories of large-scale institutional change. My aim in this paper is to delineate patterns and gaps to be found in sociological theories dealing with change in Soviet-type societies. After a short review of the explanatory claims of totalitarian, modernisation, civil society and institutional perspectives, I propose an ana…
Postcommunist ambivalence
The initial optimistic illusions about the future of postcommunist countries have been cut short by not so encouraging developments in these societies. With the growing awareness that the postcommunist transition cannot be understood as a linear passage to a free market and parliamentary democracy, more attention is paid to the social and economic obstacles as well as to the legacy of real socialism. The feelings of increasing uncertainty about t…
How not to deal with the past
By looking at the history of the Polish lustration - the policy of checking the past of candidates for important positions - this article argues that although the lustration law has been finally passed at the end of 1998, Poland's dealing with the past is still full of unresolved and deeply ambivalent problems due to the nature of its postcommunist transition and the nature of the newly constructed political institutions. These conditions were sh…
Informality
The Search for Freedom
Trust and cooperation
The current deficit of trust in the working of democracy has been attracting the increasing attention of social scientists. Nevertheless, there is still a conspicuous lack of an integrative theory of trust. Existing literature is united in its recognition that the preferable democratic order should be rooted in trust relations. This assertion that democracy and trust are connected is based on the assumption that either civil society or institutio…
Normality and Trust in Goffman's Theory of Interaction Order
The article asserts that Goffman's concept of normality comes close to the notion of trust as a protective mechanism that prevents chaos and disorder by providing us with feelings of safety, certainty, and familiarity. Arguing that to account for the tendency of social order to be seen as normal we need to conceptualize trust as the routine background of everyday interaction, the article analyzes Goffman's concepts of normal appearances, stigma, …
Informality
For most of the twentieth century, modernity has been characterised by the formalisation of social relations as face to face interactions are replaced by impersonal bureaucracy and finance. As we enter the new millennium, however, it becomes increasingly clear that it is only by stepping outside these formal structures that trust and co-operation can be created and social change achieved. In a brilliant theoretical tour de force, illustrated with…
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