I Burkitt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 45631 |
|---|---|
| NOME | I Burkitt |
| PRENOMES | I |
| SOBRENOME | Burkitt |
| ASSINATURA | BURKITT I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bradford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2994-1184 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 510 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come
This article analyzes the emotions of alienation, estrangement, and nostalgia, and how they are central to the production of neo-emotions in contemporary society. Alienation is a product of the macro-social context of capitalist societies and contemporary neo-emotions are a response to this, addressing the current misalignment between people, their emotional experiences, and their dynamic environment. I consider how alienation affects those on th…
Moral identity, identification and emotion
This paper extends a relational theory of the interconnection between morality, identity, and emotion. We argue that interactional identification with others is central to the development of the moral self, which begins early in childhood as we become the object of the emotional-evaluative attitude of others––becoming a subject to ourselves––while also identifying with others and with the values they embody. This position is extended in contrast …
The Emotions in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
This article conceptualizes human emotion as formed within the cultural and historical development of each individual within their society, using theories of emotion created within cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). It examines how the process of the cultural formation of emotion takes place as part of the social development of the personality, intimately tied in with motivation, need and desire. In doing this I review ideas about emotio…
Alienation and emotion
In this article I look at the emotional effects of alienation in modern capitalist societies. I begin by considering Marx’s theory of alienation, focusing especially on the alienation between people and between them and the social institutions to which they should be connected. In this way, alienation is understood as a form of estrangement within social relations and I draw out the emotional implications of this, in terms of the relations betwee…
The psychology of feeling
Relational Agency
Relational agency
This article explores how the concept of agency in social theory changes when it is conceptualized as a relational rather than an individual phenomenon. It begins with a critique of the structure/agency debate, particularly of how this emerges in the critical realist approach to agency typified by Margaret Archer. It is argued that this approach, and the critical realist version of relational sociology that has grown from it, reify social relatio…
Emotions and Social Relations
This is a compelling and timely addition to the study of emotions, arguing that emotion is a response to the way in which people are embedded in patterns of relationship, both to others and to significant social and political events or situations. Going beyond the traditional discursive understanding of emotions, Burkitt investigates emotions as a complex and dynamic phenomenon that includes the whole self, body and mind, but which always occur i…
Emotional Reflexivity
Theories of reflexivity have primarily been concerned with the way agents monitor their own actions using knowledge (Giddens) or deliberate on the social context to make choices through the internal conversation (Archer), yet none have placed emotion at the centre of reflexivity. While emotion is considered in theories of reflexivity it is generally held at bay, being seen as a possible barrier to clear reflexive thought. Here, I challenge this p…
Identity Construction in Sociohistorical Context
Fragments of Unconscious Experience
In constructionist and dialogical psychology there have been few attempts to reach an understanding of that which is “unconscious.” The exception to this is Billig’s re-reading of Freudian repression in terms of conversational rules that bar certain topics, and his use of Marx’s ideas from Capital to show how collective, habitual forms of acting, speaking, and thinking make us unmindful of aspects of reality. To extend the analysis of the unconsc…
Dialogues with Self and Others
While social constructionist understandings of the self have stressed the importance of the self—other relation, placing emphasis on what happens in dialogues and relations with others rather than psychological processes “in the head,” I suggest here that we can build on this tradition to reintroduce notions of a dialogue with the self, or micro-dialogue, as an important part of an understanding of persons. I use the term “microdialogue,” rather …
Social Selves
No
Powerful Emotions
This article aims to understand how emotions are integral elements in relations of power and government, with particular reference to the 'War on Terror' declared by many Western governments after the events of 11 September 2001. In particular, I analyse two incidents within this: the peace demonstration against the Iraq war in London, 2003, and the aftermath of the Madrid train bombings in Spain, 2004. Using newspaper reports of these two incide…
The time and space of everyday life
This article argues that everyday life is related to all social relations and activities, including both the ‘official’ practices that are codified and normalized and the ‘unofficial’ practices and articulations of experience. Indeed, everyday day life is seen as the single plane of immanence in which these two forms of practice and articulation interrelate and affect one another. The lived experience of everyday life is multidimensional, compose…
Psychology in the Field of Being
In this paper I take up the various ontological positions forwarded in social constructionism. While acknowledging its advances over other approaches to psychology, I nevertheless argue that the various ontological positions create confusion over the nature of human perception and the sensible realization of a world that does not rest wholly in language. Using the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, I argue for a more fundamental ontology that grasps…
Technologies of the Self
No
Complex Emotions
In this chapter I argue that emotions are experienced primarily as structures of feeling which give meaning to relational experience. These feelings can be articulated through speech genres or discourses which give them form as specific emotions that have a place in the emotional vocabulary of a culture. Thus, I seek to distinguish between feeling and thought and attempt to trace the complex process through which feelings become emotions. This in…
Multiple and Singular Selves
Bodies of Thought
Manoevring between constructionist and realist theories of the social actor, Bodies of Thought is an innovative assessment of Foucaultian, Eliasian and feminist approaches to the body and a sustained critique of post-Cartesian dualisms
Bodies of Knowledge
In this piece, I argue against the Cartesian trend of seeing persons, selves and mind as something distinct from the body. It is claimed that Descartes realized the importance of the link between body and mind, but never pursued this connection, and this then becomes the aim of the paper. Another effect of Cartesian modes of thinking is to divorce human knowledge from its material contexts, driving a wedge between mind and matter. Some forms of s…
Sexuality and Gender Identity
This paper concentrates on the recent controversy over the division between sex and gender and the troubling of the binary distinctions between gender identities and sexualities, such as man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual. While supporting the troubling of such categories, I argue against the approach of Judith Butler which claims that these dualities are primarily discursive constructions that can be regarded as fictions. Instead, I trac…
Social Relationships and Emotions
In this article I propose a relational understanding of emotions which I believe overcomes many of the dualisms in previous sociological attempts to understand this realm of social life. I also suggest that it is rare in such studies for the object under scrutiny to be defined, and attempt to answer the question of what it is we are exploring when we approach emotions. The view is put forward of emotions as complexes rather than things, ones that…
Social and Personal Constructs
Mancuso's (1996) article is to be welcomed for its attempt to bring together social constructionism, personal construct theory and narrative psychology. Whilst the underlying tendency of the three approaches-to view the text as self-enclosed and constitutive of reality-is drawn out well, the differences between them are underplayed. Most significantly, these include the difference between the individualist ontology in Mancuso's version of persona…
An Introduction to Social Constructionism
Emotional Reflexivity
Theories of reflexivity have primarily been concerned with the way agents monitor their own actions using knowledge (Giddens) or deliberate on the social context to make choices through the internal conversation (Archer), yet none have placed emotion at the centre of reflexivity. While emotion is considered in theories of reflexivity it is generally held at bay, being seen as a possible barrier to clear reflexive thought. Here, I challenge this p…
Relational agency
This article explores how the concept of agency in social theory changes when it is conceptualized as a relational rather than an individual phenomenon. It begins with a critique of the structure/agency debate, particularly of how this emerges in the critical realist approach to agency typified by Margaret Archer. It is argued that this approach, and the critical realist version of relational sociology that has grown from it, reify social relatio…
Social Relationships and Emotions
In this article I propose a relational understanding of emotions which I believe overcomes many of the dualisms in previous sociological attempts to understand this realm of social life. I also suggest that it is rare in such studies for the object under scrutiny to be defined, and attempt to answer the question of what it is we are exploring when we approach emotions. The view is put forward of emotions as complexes rather than things, ones that…
Technologies of the Self
No
Microsociology
Civilization and Ambivalence
L'A. examine les analyses de N. Elias concernant la notion de civilisation. Il montre que cette notion est ambivalente. Il presente les theses defendues par Z. Bauman qui affirme que la methode qui consiste a classer les evenements, les faits en signe de barbarie ou inversement en faits de civilisation est ambivalente parce qu'aucun d'eux ne peut etre place de facon univoque dans l'une de ces deux categories. Il examine les trois traits specifiqu…
Complex Emotions
In this chapter I argue that emotions are experienced primarily as structures of feeling which give meaning to relational experience. These feelings can be articulated through speech genres or discourses which give them form as specific emotions that have a place in the emotional vocabulary of a culture. Thus, I seek to distinguish between feeling and thought and attempt to trace the complex process through which feelings become emotions. This in…
Overcoming Metaphysics
In their respective analyses of Western civilizations, both Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault were concerned to overcome metaphysical notions of power and freedom, seeing them as relations rather than as properties possessed by some groups and individuals but not others. This essay explores the similarities between their understanding of power and freedom as relations. However, there are many differences between these two theorists, most importan…
The time and space of everyday life
This article argues that everyday life is related to all social relations and activities, including both the ‘official’ practices that are codified and normalized and the ‘unofficial’ practices and articulations of experience. Indeed, everyday day life is seen as the single plane of immanence in which these two forms of practice and articulation interrelate and affect one another. The lived experience of everyday life is multidimensional, compose…
Powerful Emotions
This article aims to understand how emotions are integral elements in relations of power and government, with particular reference to the 'War on Terror' declared by many Western governments after the events of 11 September 2001. In particular, I analyse two incidents within this: the peace demonstration against the Iraq war in London, 2003, and the aftermath of the Madrid train bombings in Spain, 2004. Using newspaper reports of these two incide…
The shifting concept of the self
Within certain schools of thought in both sociology and social psychology the concept of the self has begun to move away from the traditional image of the isolated individual, towards a concept of selfhood which emphasizes the social nature of the person. The target of attack for this shifting concept has been twofold: first, the philosophical image of the self-contained individual, or monad, has been challenged by the focus on the social constru…
An Introduction to Social Constructionism
Bodies of Knowledge
In this piece, I argue against the Cartesian trend of seeing persons, selves and mind as something distinct from the body. It is claimed that Descartes realized the importance of the link between body and mind, but never pursued this connection, and this then becomes the aim of the paper. Another effect of Cartesian modes of thinking is to divorce human knowledge from its material contexts, driving a wedge between mind and matter. Some forms of s…
Sexuality and Gender Identity
This paper concentrates on the recent controversy over the division between sex and gender and the troubling of the binary distinctions between gender identities and sexualities, such as man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual. While supporting the troubling of such categories, I argue against the approach of Judith Butler which claims that these dualities are primarily discursive constructions that can be regarded as fictions. Instead, I trac…
Alienation and emotion
In this article I look at the emotional effects of alienation in modern capitalist societies. I begin by considering Marx’s theory of alienation, focusing especially on the alienation between people and between them and the social institutions to which they should be connected. In this way, alienation is understood as a form of estrangement within social relations and I draw out the emotional implications of this, in terms of the relations betwee…
Beyond the 'iron cage
The Emotions in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
This article conceptualizes human emotion as formed within the cultural and historical development of each individual within their society, using theories of emotion created within cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). It examines how the process of the cultural formation of emotion takes place as part of the social development of the personality, intimately tied in with motivation, need and desire. In doing this I review ideas about emotio…
The Well-Tempered Self
Capitalism — A Wright-Offe
Beyond the 'iron cage
Social Selves
Society and the Individual PART ONE: PERSONALITY AS SOCIAL DISCOURSE Language and the Social Self The Self in Everyday Communication Power, Knowledge and the Self PART TWO: PERSONALITY IN SOCIAL RELATIONS AND INTERDEPENDENCIES Social Relations and Personality Social Relations, Culture and the Self Power Relations, Interdependencies and the Civilized Personality Conclusion The Formation and Reconstruction of Social Selves
Overcoming Metaphysics
In their respective analyses of Western civilizations, both Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault were concerned to overcome metaphysical notions of power and freedom, seeing them as relations rather than as properties possessed by some groups and individuals but not others. This essay explores the similarities between their understanding of power and freedom as relations. However, there are many differences between these two theorists, most importan…
Microsociology
The Society of Individuals
The shifting concept of the self
Within certain schools of thought in both sociology and social psychology the concept of the self has begun to move away from the traditional image of the isolated individual, towards a concept of selfhood which emphasizes the social nature of the person. The target of attack for this shifting concept has been twofold: first, the philosophical image of the self-contained individual, or monad, has been challenged by the focus on the social constru…
One Blood
The Well-Tempered Self
Social and Personal Constructs
Mancuso's (1996) article is to be welcomed for its attempt to bring together social constructionism, personal construct theory and narrative psychology. Whilst the underlying tendency of the three approaches-to view the text as self-enclosed and constitutive of reality-is drawn out well, the differences between them are underplayed. Most significantly, these include the difference between the individualist ontology in Mancuso's version of persona…
An Introduction to Social Constructionism
Civilization and Ambivalence
L'A. examine les analyses de N. Elias concernant la notion de civilisation. Il montre que cette notion est ambivalente. Il presente les theses defendues par Z. Bauman qui affirme que la methode qui consiste a classer les evenements, les faits en signe de barbarie ou inversement en faits de civilisation est ambivalente parce qu'aucun d'eux ne peut etre place de facon univoque dans l'une de ces deux categories. Il examine les trois traits specifiqu…
Social Relationships and Emotions
In this article I propose a relational understanding of emotions which I believe overcomes many of the dualisms in previous sociological attempts to understand this realm of social life. I also suggest that it is rare in such studies for the object under scrutiny to be defined, and attempt to answer the question of what it is we are exploring when we approach emotions. The view is put forward of emotions as complexes rather than things, ones that…
Bodies of Knowledge
In this piece, I argue against the Cartesian trend of seeing persons, selves and mind as something distinct from the body. It is claimed that Descartes realized the importance of the link between body and mind, but never pursued this connection, and this then becomes the aim of the paper. Another effect of Cartesian modes of thinking is to divorce human knowledge from its material contexts, driving a wedge between mind and matter. Some forms of s…
Sexuality and Gender Identity
This paper concentrates on the recent controversy over the division between sex and gender and the troubling of the binary distinctions between gender identities and sexualities, such as man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual. While supporting the troubling of such categories, I argue against the approach of Judith Butler which claims that these dualities are primarily discursive constructions that can be regarded as fictions. Instead, I trac…
Bodies of Thought
Manoevring between constructionist and realist theories of the social actor, Bodies of Thought is an innovative assessment of Foucaultian, Eliasian and feminist approaches to the body and a sustained critique of post-Cartesian dualisms
Multiple and Singular Selves
Technologies of the Self
No
Complex Emotions
In this chapter I argue that emotions are experienced primarily as structures of feeling which give meaning to relational experience. These feelings can be articulated through speech genres or discourses which give them form as specific emotions that have a place in the emotional vocabulary of a culture. Thus, I seek to distinguish between feeling and thought and attempt to trace the complex process through which feelings become emotions. This in…
Psychology in the Field of Being
In this paper I take up the various ontological positions forwarded in social constructionism. While acknowledging its advances over other approaches to psychology, I nevertheless argue that the various ontological positions create confusion over the nature of human perception and the sensible realization of a world that does not rest wholly in language. Using the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, I argue for a more fundamental ontology that grasps…
The time and space of everyday life
This article argues that everyday life is related to all social relations and activities, including both the ‘official’ practices that are codified and normalized and the ‘unofficial’ practices and articulations of experience. Indeed, everyday day life is seen as the single plane of immanence in which these two forms of practice and articulation interrelate and affect one another. The lived experience of everyday life is multidimensional, compose…
Powerful Emotions
This article aims to understand how emotions are integral elements in relations of power and government, with particular reference to the 'War on Terror' declared by many Western governments after the events of 11 September 2001. In particular, I analyse two incidents within this: the peace demonstration against the Iraq war in London, 2003, and the aftermath of the Madrid train bombings in Spain, 2004. Using newspaper reports of these two incide…
Social Selves
No
Fragments of Unconscious Experience
In constructionist and dialogical psychology there have been few attempts to reach an understanding of that which is “unconscious.” The exception to this is Billig’s re-reading of Freudian repression in terms of conversational rules that bar certain topics, and his use of Marx’s ideas from Capital to show how collective, habitual forms of acting, speaking, and thinking make us unmindful of aspects of reality. To extend the analysis of the unconsc…
Dialogues with Self and Others
While social constructionist understandings of the self have stressed the importance of the self—other relation, placing emphasis on what happens in dialogues and relations with others rather than psychological processes “in the head,” I suggest here that we can build on this tradition to reintroduce notions of a dialogue with the self, or micro-dialogue, as an important part of an understanding of persons. I use the term “microdialogue,” rather …
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