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*Compaso - Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology*
http://compaso.eu
*Ways of understanding, misunderstanding and not understanding people*
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http://compaso.eu/2012/07/13/cfp-understanding-people/
Deadline for manuscript submission: 15 September 2012
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Social research relies on our claims of understanding people – which often
rely, further, on the claims advanced by our research participants (as
respondents, informants, subjects, or in other roles) of understanding
themselves and other people.
At times, we are also confronted, as researchers and in other walks of
life, with difficulties, failures, and outright impossibilities of
understanding people.
We invite papers that reflect on forms of understanding, misunderstanding
and not understanding people. Articles that have a comparative focus, by
looking at different forms, instances, settings etc., are especially
welcome.
Some of the questions that may guide discussion include (without being
limited to) the following:
· -*Different forms*: What forms and claims of understanding, not
understanding, misunderstanding, uncertain understanding, better
understanding etc. *have we encountered* in our research?
· - *Rhetorical use*: How do people report their understanding of
other people as *arguments in conversations*? How do claims of
understanding, misunderstanding, not understanding, uncertain
understanding, partial understanding etc. function as arguments that
support one’s stance and undermine alternative versions? What is the
rhetorical force of these various claims of understanding and lack thereof?
· -*Social organization*: How are these forms of understanding and
not understanding socially organized? What social positions (such as
professionals, parents, friends, spouses etc) are privileged in claiming
understanding of particular other people? When and how do alternative
understandings clash, and how are these conflicts adjudicated?
· -*Professional versus common reason*: How is our
*professional* understanding
of people related to the common-reason forms of understanding and lack
thereof of the people that we rely on - as subjects, informants,
respondents etc? How do we position our understanding to be better? How do
we elicit their understanding?
· -*Techniques and technologies*: How do we operate with theories,
schemes and models, methods, techniques, instruments of understanding
people? How do other people operate with such *tools*? What do we (and
others) take to be more or less reliable *indicators* of other people’s
thoughts, personalities, motives, ways of being? How do we elicit and / or
read CVs, photos, Facebook profiles, test results, biographies, obituaries,
interviews, and other would-be ways of understanding people?
· -*Different perspectives*: How do different theoretical or
disciplinary perspectives shape our understanding of people? What are the
benefits and the threats of drawing on, and combining, different *disciplinary
perspectives* in our research papers/studies?
Articles that engage in a comparative approach, connecting different
concepts, materials, methods, situations, pieces of research or other
social realities, are particularly welcome.
Please check the Journal’s website for guidelines on manuscript submission:
http://compaso.ro/instructions-for-authors/
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