999
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Social figures as elements of sociological theorizing

References

  • Abbott, Andrew. 2004. The methods of discovery. Heuristics for the social sciences. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Abend, Gabriel. 2008. The Meaning of “Theory”. Sociological Theory 26, no. 2: 173–99. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9558.2008.00324.x.
  • Alworth, David J. 2016. Site Reading. Fiction, Art, Social Form. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Black, Max. 1955. Metaphor. Proceedings of the Aristotelian society. New Series 55: 273–94.
  • Blumenberg, Hans. 2014. Präfiguration. Arbeit am politischen Mythos. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
  • Braidotti, Rosi. 2011. Nomadic subjects: embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Breidenstein, Georg, Stefan Hirschauer, Herbert Kalthoff, and Boris Nieswand. 2015. Ethnografie. Die Praxis der Feldforschung. Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft.
  • Bröckling, Ulrich. 2016. The entrepreneurial self. Fabricating a New Type of Subject. London: Sage Publications.
  • Campe, Rüdiger. 2006. Epoche der Evidenz. Knoten in einem terminologischen Netzwerk zwischen Descartes und Kant. In Intellektuelle Anschauung, eds. Sibylle Peters, and Martin J. Schäfer, 25–43. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Czarniawska, Barbara. 2004. Narratives in social science research. Introducing qualitative methods. London: Sage Publications.
  • David, Jérôme. 2010. Une “réalité à mi-hauteur”. Exemplarités littéraires et généralisations savantes au XIXe siècle. Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 2, no. 65e année: 263–90.
  • Dawney, Leila. 2022. The work that figures do. In Figure. Concept and Method, eds. Celia Lury, William Viney, and Scott Wark, 21–39. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. 1994. What is philosophy? New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Durkheim, Émile. 1984[1893]. The division of labor in society. New York: Free Press.
  • Fallada, Hans. 2011[1932]. Little man – what now? New York: Melville House Publishing.
  • Farganis, James. 2014. Readings in social theory. The classic tradition to post-modernism. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Flinders, Matthew, and Matt Wood. 2015. From folk devils to folk heroes: Rethinking the theory of moral panics. Deviant Behavior 36, no. 8: 640–56. doi:10.1080/01639625.2014.951579.
  • Genette, Gérard. 1992. Paratexte. Das Buch vom Beiwerk des Buches. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus.
  • Go, Julian. 2023. Theoretical innovation and perspectival realism. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, doi:10.1080/1600910X.2023.2242595.
  • Guggenheim, Michael. 2015. The media of sociology: tight or loose translations? The British Journal of Sociology 66, no. 2: 345–72. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12125.
  • Guggenheim, Michael. 2023. Theorizing is not abstraction but horizontal translation. Distinktion. Journal of Social Theory.
  • Haraway, Donna J. 1991. A cyborg manifesto: science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century. In Simians, cyborgs, and women. The reinvention of nature, ed. Donna Haraway, 149–81. London: Routledge.
  • Haraway, Donna J. 1997. Modest_witness@second_millenium.FemaleMan©_meets_OncoMouse™. Feminism and technoscience. New York: Routledge.
  • Haraway, Donna J. 2000. How like a leave. An interview with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve. New York: Routledge.
  • Horst, Maja, and Mike Michael. 2011. On the shoulders of idiots: Re-thinking science communication as “event”. Science as Culture 20: 283–306. doi:10.1080/09505431.2010.524199.
  • Innocenti, B. 1994. Towards a Theory of Vivid Description as Practiced in Cicero's “Verrine” Orations. Rhetorica 12, no. 4: 355–81. doi:10.1525/rh.1994.12.4.355.
  • Jannidis, Fotis. 2004. Figur und Person. Beitrag zu einer historischen Narratologie. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Keim, Wiebke. 2016. The global circulation of social science knowledge – relevant factors for acceptance and rejection of travelling texts. Revue D'Anthropologie Des Connaissances 10, no. 1: a–aj.
  • Koch, Thomas. 1991. Literarische Menschendarstellung. Studien zu ihrer Theorie und Praxis. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
  • Kracauer, Siegfried. 1998[1930]. The salaried masses. Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany. London: Verso.
  • Krause, Monika. 2016. The meanings of theorizing. The British Journal of Sociology 67, no. 1: 23–9. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12187_4.
  • Krause, Monika. 2021. Model cases. On canonical research objects and sites. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Krause, Monika. 2023. Theorizing from neglected cases. Distinktion. Journal of Social Theory, doi:10.1080/1600910X.2023.2260568.
  • Latour, Bruno. 2005. Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Le Grand, Elias. 2019. Conceptualising social types and figures: From social forms to classificatory struggles. Cultural Sociology 13, no. 4: 411–27. doi:10.1177/1749975519859962.
  • Lipset, Seymour M., and Leo Löwenthal, eds. 1961. Culture and social character. The work of David Riesman reviewed. New York: Free Press.
  • Lury, Celia, William Viney, and Scott Wark. 2022. Introduction: figure, figuring and configuration. In Figure. Concept and method, eds. Celia Lury, William Viney, and Scott Wark, 1–20. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lyotard, Jean-François. 1971. Discours, figure. Paris: Éditions Klincksieck.
  • Lyotard, Jean-François. 2011a. Discourse, figure. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Lyotard, Jean-François. 2011b. Veduta auf ein Fragment der Geschichte des Begehrens. In Bildtheorien aus Frankreich. Eine Anthologie, ed. Emmanuel Alloa, 136–201. München: Wilhelm Fink.
  • Mertlitsch, Kirstin. 2016. Sisters – Cyborgs – Drags. Das Denken in Begriffspersonen der Gender Studies. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Moser, Sebastian J., and Tobias Schlechtriemen. 2018. Sozialfiguren – zwischen gesellschaftlicher Erfahrung und soziologischer Diagnose. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 47, no. 3: 164–80. doi:10.1515/zfsoz-2018-1011.
  • Moser, Sebastian J., and Tobias Schlechtriemen. Forthcoming. How to Study Social Figures. A Methodological Guideline.
  • Opitz, Sven. 2010. Der flexible Mensch. In Diven, Hacker, Spekulanten, eds. Stephan Moebius, and Markus Schroer, 132–47. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
  • Osrecki, Fran. 2015. Constructing epochs: The argumentative structures of sociological epochalisms. Cultural Sociology 9: 131–46. doi:10.1177/1749975514566511.
  • Porter, James I. 2017. Disfigurations: Erich Auerbach’s Theory of Figura. Critical Inquiry 44: 80–113. doi:10.1086/694124.
  • Ragin, Charles C., and Howard S. Becker. 1992. What is a case? Exploring the foundations of social inquiry. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Reed, Isaac Ariail. 2023. Social theory and overinterpretation. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, doi:10.1080/1600910X.2023.2258289.
  • Safaian, Dorna. 2022. Greta Thunberg und die Ambivalenz heroischer Vulnerabilität. Special Issue. helden. heroes. héros: Climate heroism 8: 21–32.
  • Schlechtriemen, Tobias. 2014. Bilder des Sozialen. Das Netzwerk in der soziologischen Theorie. Paderborn: Fink.
  • Schlechtriemen, Tobias. 2019. Sozialfiguren in soziologischen Gegenwartsdiagnosen. In Gegenwartsdiagnosen. Kulturelle Formen gesellschaftlicher Selbstproblematisierung in der Moderne, eds. Thomas Alkemeyer, Nikolaus Buschmann, and Thomas Etzemüller, 147–66. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Schuetz, Alfred. 1944. The stranger: An essay in social psychology. American Journal of Sociology 49, no. 6: 499–507. doi:10.1086/219472.
  • Schweitzer, Doris. 2011. Topologien der Kritik. Kritische Raumkonzeptionen bei Gilles Deleuze und Michel Serres. Münster: LIT Verlag.
  • Sennett, Richard. 1998. The corrosion of character. The personal consequences of work in the new capitalism. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Silver, Daniel. 2020. Figure it out!. Sociological Methods & Research 49, no. 4: 868–905. doi:10.1177/0049124118769089.
  • Simmel, Georg. 1971. The stranger. In On individuality and social forms. Selected writings, ed. Donald N. Levine, 143–9. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1968. Constructing social theories. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
  • Swedberg, Richard. 2012. Theorizing in sociology and social science: turning to the context of discovery. Theory and Society 41: 1–40. doi:10.1007/s11186-011-9161-5.
  • Swedberg, Richard. 2014a. Theorizing in social science. The context of discovery. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Swedberg, Richard. 2014b. From theory to theorizing. In Theorizing in social science. The Context of Discovery, ed. Richard Swedberg, 1–28. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Swedberg, Richard. 2016. Before theory comes theorizing or how to make social science more interesting. The British Journal of Sociology 67, no. 1: 5–22. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12184.
  • Swedberg, Richard. 2020. Using metaphors in sociology: pitfalls and potentials. The American Sociologist 51: 240–57. doi:10.1007/s12108-020-09443-3.
  • Weick, Karl E. 1989. Theory construction as disciplined imagination. The Academy of Management Review 14, no. 4: 516–31. doi:10.2307/258556.
  • Weingart, Peter, and Sabine Maasen. 2000. Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge. London: Routledge.
  • Werron, Tobias, Jelena Brankovic, and Leopold Ringel. 2023. Theorizing together. Distinktion. Journal of Social Theory, doi:10.1080/1600910X.2023.2259288.
  • Woolgar, Steve, Else Vogel, David Moats, and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson. 2021. The imposter as social theory. Thinking with gatecrashers, cheats and charlatans. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • Wynn, Jonathan R. 2011. The Hobo to Doormen: The characters of qualitative analysis, past and present. Ethnography 12, no. 4: 518–42. doi:10.1177/1466138111410620.