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 CALL FOR PAPERS: MOTIVES AND SOCIAL
ORGANIZATION<http://compaso.eu/2013/02/03/call-for-papers-motives-and-social-organization/>

Motivating others, asking for their motives and offering motive accounts
are central features of social organization (Blum & McHugh, 1971; Housley &
Fitzgerald, 2008; Mills, 1940). *Journal of Comparative Research in
Anthropology and Sociology – Compaso* invites papers that explore the uses
of motives in various spheres of day-to-day, professional and scientific
life, for its Winter 2013 issue.

Guest Editor: Richard Fitzgerald, University of Queensland

*Deadline for manuscript submission (extended): July 31, 2013*

Volume publication (online): December 15, 2013

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*Asking for motives and offering motives*

As a rule, people present motives if challenged to account for their
behaviour. People make use of *vocabularies of motive* (Mills, 1940) to
 present (meaningful and justified) actions to other people who stand to
evaluate them. The motives asked for and motives given in return are shaped
in three different contexts (Johnatan Potter & Hepburn, 2008):

-          A rhetorical context: one formulates motives with an eye to the
plausibility of alternative versions, some of which one may want to
entertain, and some of which one may want to undermine;

-          An interactional context: people give motives as specific
answers to specific questions, as part of ongoing interaction in which they
have something at stake;

-          An institutional context: the interactions in which people are
asked to formulate motives may vary widely as regards their accountability
rules; one can be in a school, at the doctors, in a Courtroom, with
a counselor, at Alcoholic Anonymous, etc.

Some research questions that may address this topic include (without being
by any means exclusive):

1)       What are the *vocabularies of motive* or *interpretive repertoires
*(Jonathan Potter & Wetherell, 1987) associated with a given type of action
(such as smoking, accepting a scientific theory, divorcing etc.)?

2)      How are motives used to coordinate interaction?

3)      How are motives rhetorically formulated, in order to support a
version of reality in interaction with specific interlocutors in specific
situations?

*Motives and motivation*

People often anticipate specific reactions to specific actions, including
answers to questions about motives. They design some activities such as to
‘motivate’ other people in a certain direction, to frame their situations
and environments in order to direct them. Such ‘motivational’ actions make
visible the order on which they are based, the order that grounds
expectations.

Possible questions related to this topic include:

1)       How do people present a specific situation or action to others, in
order to motivate them to react in a preferred way?

2)      What are the lay and (quasi-)scientific theories of motivation that
people bring to bear in their daily interactions with others?

3)      How are motives embedded in objects? How do users adapt and react
to these pre-programmed motives?

*Working with motives as a professional*

There is a vast body of research and literature on motivation, including
motivating oneself, in fields such as psychology, sociology, consumer
research, human resources, human-computer interaction, education studies
and so on. Some motivational schemes have reached global fame, including
Maslow’s pyramid of motives or Hertzberg’s hygiene or motivational factors.
Professionals in various fields design, apply and evaluate complex models
of human motivation, and embed them in their more-or-less material products.

We welcome papers that discuss the production and use of *professional
vocabularies of motive*, and the reactions of various publics to the
socio-technical
systems that put them into practice. Some guiding questions include:

-          How do we (and other specialists) study motives, in disciplinary
and interdisciplinary research?

-          How do professionals’ public products (technologies, policies,
clothing, scientific theories…) incorporate specific models of human
motivation?

-          What is the ‘moral career’ of motivational classifications, in
various spheres of life – such as Maslow’s pyramid, or the distinction
between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation?

-          How do we encounter and react to professional motivational
designs in various institutional environments?

*References*

Blum, A. F., & McHugh, P. (1971). The Social Ascription of Motives. *American
Sociological Review*,*36*(1), 98–109.

Housley, W., & Fitzgerald, R. (2008). Motives and social organization:
sociological amnesia, psychological description and the analysis of
accounts. *Qualitative Research*, *8*(2), 237–256.

Mills, C. W. (1940). Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive. *American
Sociological Review*,*5*(6), 904–913.

Potter, Johnatan, & Hepburn, A. (2008). Discursive constructionism. In J.
A. Holstein & J. F. Gubrium (Eds.), *Handbook of constructionist research* (pp.
275–293). New York: Guildford.

Potter, Jonathan, & Wetherell, M. (1987). *Discourse and social psychology:
beyond attitudes and behaviour* (p. 216). London: Sage.

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