Outline of the sociological approach of synergy representations
Since the beginning, sociology ceded the study of the interaction of society and its natural environment to the natural sciences, and preferred the perspectives inside the society itself. Depending on the research focus, one can complement this approach, if it is presupposed that the changes in the...
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| Dokumentumtípus: | Cikk |
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Belvedere Meridionale
Szeged
2014
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| Sorozat: | Belvedere Meridionale
26 No. 4 |
| Kulcsszavak: | Antropogén változások - narratológia, Szociológia |
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| mtmt: | http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/belv.2014.4.3 |
| Online Access: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/34719 |
| Tartalmi kivonat: | Since the beginning, sociology ceded the study of the interaction of society and its natural environment to the natural sciences, and preferred the perspectives inside the society itself. Depending on the research focus, one can complement this approach, if it is presupposed that the changes in the lifepraxis of societies/communities/ individuals, the occasional diversions from trajectories are triggered not just by intra societal factors, but these can be affected by nonsocietal factors, or by factors in- and outside society. The elaboration of these assumptions required some boundary crossings which led to the explication of the similarities and differences between environmental history, climate history etc., and sociology. This also led to the introduction of data, concepts and theoretical considerations requiring the sociological perspective. Consequently, the followings can be the tasks of sociological inquiry: the inclusion of narrative historical sources into the research – in this case Transylvanian memoirs from the 17th and 18th centuries – which report natural (climatic, biological) anomalies or extremities as well as their demographical and social consequences. The complementation of the dataset and the parallel inclusion of intentional and unintentional anthropogenic effects and events into the research justify the introduction of the notion of coeffect for the confluence of multiple factors. The introduction of the concept of coeffect was motivated by two considerations. Firstly, it was the principle for systemizing the narrative dataset (typology). Secondly, it enabled the portrayal of the perceptional perspective of the observers’ environment (objects, events, and occurrences), the joint concern, immediate/intermediate experience, the position in social space, socialization, the role of knowledge patterns regarding events, occurrences and their consequences (representation). This experimental study aims to draw attention to the research opportunities in historical sociology and the sociology of knowledge that emerge from this new perspective. |
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| Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők: | 37-55 |