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“I Believe in Taking Care of People”: Pushing Back against Rationalized Institutions with a Logic of Care
Poetics ( IF 1.857 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-07 , DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101593
Jacqui Frost 1 , Penny Edgell 2
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A founding sociological metanarrative describes modernization as an ongoing process in which complex and bureaucratic institutions increasingly regulate social life, privileging instrumental-rational logics of action and the authority of scientific, legal, and technical elites. This makes it increasingly difficult to sustain substantive rationality, or moral action rooted in substantive values. Drawing on data from 48 focus groups in which ordinary U.S. citizens discuss contemporary social controversies, we find that substantive rationality is common, and commonly rooted in a logic of care. Individuals in our focus groups often invoked a logic of care to make moral claims that justified the consideration of context and complexity, encouraged empathy, and centered individual well-being. We find that invoking a logic of care is sometimes an automatic response and sometimes arrived at after deliberation, and that a logic of care is used across different social locations within our sample, including by both men and women and across different racial and religious groups. And we find that a logic of care is often used to “push back” against or negotiate with more rational logics of action like law, science, and efficiency. We argue that our focus on a logic of care helps render substantive rationality more visible and legible for analysis, providing a corrective to metanarratives of disenchantment and fostering a richer understanding of the processes through which people make moral claims in interaction.



中文翻译:

“我相信关爱人”:用关爱的逻辑反击合理化的制度

一个开创性的社会学元叙事将现代化描述为一个持续的过程,在这个过程中,复杂的官僚机构越来越多地规范社会生活,赋予工具理性的行动逻辑和科学、法律和技术精英的权威特权。这使得维持实质理性或植根于实质价值的道德行为变得越来越困难。借鉴美国普通公民讨论当代社会争议的 48 个焦点小组的数据,我们发现实质性理性很普遍,并且通常植根于关怀逻辑. 我们焦点小组中的个人经常援引关心的逻辑来提出道德主张,证明考虑背景和复杂性是合理的,鼓励同理心,并以个人幸福为中心。我们发现,调用关怀逻辑有时是一种自动反应,有时是经过深思熟虑后得出的,并且在我们的样本中,关怀逻辑在不同的社会位置使用,包括男性和女性以及不同的种族和宗教群体。我们发现,谨慎的逻辑经常被用来“反击”或与更理性的行动逻辑(如法律、科学和效率)进行谈判。我们认为,我们对关怀逻辑的关注有助于使实质性理性更加明显和易于分析,

更新日期:2021-07-07
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