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Recente bijdragen tot de gezinsgeschiedenis vestigen de aandacht op de groei van een nieuwe normering van het ouderschap, waarin de ervaringskennis die eens voldoende leek voor een competent ouderschap wordt verdrongen door wetenschappelijker geachte inzichten. Die ontwikkeling problematiseert de opvoeding omdat zij het nodig maakt de conclusies van wetenschappelijk onderzoek bij de uitoefening van de ouderschapsfunctie te betrekken. Van de verschillende integratiemechanismen die daartoe worden aangewend, gaat de aandacht in dit artikel naar de zich wijzigende houding ten opzichte van het ouderschap, meer bepaald naar het belang dat moeders hechten aan gezins-externe bronnen van gedragsadviezen die hun gezag ontlenen aan een echte of vermeende band met erkende wetenschappelijke kenniscategorieën. Die houding, die van groot belang is voor de integratie van de over verschillende sociale rollen gedifferentieerde opvoedersfunctie, wordt gemeten a.h.v. een Likert-schaal waarvan de externe validiteit zorgvuldig werd nagegaan. Ter verklaring van die houding wordt een statusdrifttheorie geformuleerd. Daarvan worden een aantal hypothesen afgeleid, betreffende de relatie tussen die hou¬ding enerzijds en arbeidsmarktparticipatie, onderwijsniveau en deelname aan het verenigingsleven anderzijds. Uit de toetsing van die hypothesen in een reeks multivariate modellen waar in een groot aantal controlevariabelen is opgenomen, blijkt dat de geformuleerde statusdrifttheorie juist een betekenisvolle voorspellingen oplevert. Op basis van die resultaten worden de implicaties van de status¬drifttheorie voor de processen van cultuurspreiding en -vernieuwing besproken.

Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as 'knowledge societies', which indicates the extent to which 'science', 'knowledge' and 'knowledge production' have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to investigate the political dimension of this production and validation of knowledge. In studying the relationship between knowledge and politics, this book provides a novel perspective on current debates about 'knowledge societies', and offers an interdisciplinary agenda for future research. It.

Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as 'knowledge societies', which indicates the extent to which 'science', 'knowledge' and 'knowledge production' have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to investigate the political dimension of this production and validation of knowledge. In studying the relationship between knowledge and politics, this book provides a novel perspective on current debates about 'knowledge societies', and offers an interdisciplinary agenda for future research. It.

AbstractThis paper examines the impact of a shift in focus from political praxis to trauma work in the context of a failed democratisation movement. It investigates the various phenomena which emerge when intellectuals, under the traumatic impact of violence and atrocities, place trauma narration at the core of their interventions. Drawing on document analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with twenty nine exiled Syrian intellectuals in Paris and Berlin who had participated in the revolutionary movement of 2011, the paper suggests that an inversion of the normative power structures pertaining to how intellectuals relate to their publics occurs when they adopt, under conditions of extreme violence and trauma, what we call a radically embedded positionality vis-à-vis 'the people'. This results in the dismantling of previous figurations of the 'militant intellectual' along with praxis-focused notions of the 'responsibility of intellectuals', ultimately undermining their ideational influence upon domestic publics and weakening their political impact and critical role within a revolutionary movement.

This article provides a sociological explanation for the global emergence of Slavoj Žižek as a public intellectual. It presents an integrative account encompassing both personal and institutional aspects. Drawing on positioning theory and performative frameworks, the article contributes to the sociology of intellectuals, as well as to the vast 'Žižek-literature' that focuses on his philosophical content or political activities. We analyse the distinctiveness of Žižek's performances, arguing that Žižek acts as a 'sacrificial intellectual': he plays 'the fool' and relies on irony to undermine the traditional role of the authoritative intellectual. Within the context of the digital public sphere and declining intellectual authority, Žižek's unique form of positioning has been particularly effective and has contributed to his celebrity status.

Drawing on Austin's speech act theory and on related theories of performativity and positioning, this article analyses the public confessions during the 1990s by three prominent state actors in Turkey about their direct involvement in state crimes against Kurds and left-wing political opponents. All three cases received significant media attention at the time. The aim of the article is not only to shed new light on those specific confessions by the perpetrators within the Turkish context, but also to develop further theoretical insights into the phenomenon of public confessions as such. Whilst confessions of this kind are often welcomed and portrayed as truth-statements that are cathartic and enable society to move forward, this analysis demonstrates that the reality is often more complex as the confessions in question tend to go hand in hand with a disavowal of individual responsibility by the perpetrators involved.

AbstractDrawing on Austin's speech act theory and on related theories of performativity and positioning, this article analyses the public confessions during the 1990s by three prominent state actors in Turkey about their direct involvement in state crimes against Kurds and left-wing political opponents. All three cases received significant media attention at the time. The aim of the article is not only to shed new light on those specific confessions by the perpetrators within the Turkish context, but also to develop further theoretical insights into the phenomenon of public confessions as such. Whilst confessions of this kind are often welcomed and portrayed as truth-statements that are cathartic and enable society to move forward, this analysis demonstrates that the reality is often more complex as the confessions in question tend to go hand in hand with a disavowal of individual responsibility by the perpetrators involved.

Sensitive to the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production, this article explores how scholars in peripheral fields use knowledge from central fields to structure their academic careers. The article presents the findings of a case study of career choices of political scientists in Argentina. In order to understand the interplay between foreign knowledge and local strategies of enacting networks, this article focuses on the beginning of academic careers. At this early stage, political scientists in Argentina usually have to make a decision whether to stay in the country or go abroad for postgraduate education. Relying on positioning theory and recent developments in Science and Technology Studies, we identified two alternative positioning strategies. Those who stay in Argentina tend to hoard as many scholarly positions as possible, enacting local networks oriented towards teaching. Scholars who go abroad enact networks with international dimensions, in the process enrolling persons and objects, though not always successfully. Scholars with international experience tend to be research oriented, and they mention the working conditions abroad as particularly attractive. We show the extent to which these findings challenge some views of centers and periphery and highlight the active role of scholars in peripheral scientific fields. Adapted from the source document.

1. Introduction; Gisèle Sapiro, Marco Santoro and Patrick Baert -- Part 1. The Circulation of Paradigms and Theories -- 2. The International Circulation of Structuralism: Between Appropriations and Rejections; Gisèle Sapiro and Lucile Dumont -- 3. The Reception of Structuralism in Argentina (1960s-1970s); Ezequiel Grisendi and Andrea Novello -- 4. A Case Study of the Reception of "Structuralism" in English Studies in the UK; Marcus Morgan and Patrick Baert -- 5. The Importation of the "Frankfurt School" (and "Critical Theory") in France; Louis Pinto -- 6. Crossing Disciplines Across Borders: How (British) Cultural Studies Have Been Imported (and Translated) in Italy, France and German-Speaking Countries; Marco Santoro, Barbara Grüning and Gerardo Ienna -- 7. The Transnational Making of a Subdiscipline: The Biarritz Conference and the Institutionalization of "Public Economics"; Mathieu Hauchecorne -- Part 2. The International Reception of Key Thinkers -- 8. Globalizing Gramsci: The Resuscitation of a Repressed Intellectual; Marco Santoro, Andrea Gallelli and Matteo Gerli -- 9. On the Edge of Disciplines: Reception of Karl Polanyi in France (1974-2014); Jean-Michel Chaschiche -- 10. The Troubled Legitimation of Hannah Arendt in the German and Italian Intellectual Field: 1962-2015; Barbara Grüning -- 11. From Social Theorist to Global Intellectual: The International Reception of Bourdieu's Work and Its Effect on the Author; Gisèle Sapiro -- 12. Foucault in Hungary. The Case of a Peculiar (Non)Reception; Balázs Berkovits -- 13. The Reception of A "Traveling Theory": Edward Said's Citations in the French Academic Publishing Space; Clarisse Fordant and Amine Brahimi -- 14. Can the Subaltern speak (in French)? Reception of Gayatri Spivak in France; Thomas Brisson.