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Communicative Methodology: Successful actions and dialogic democracy.
- Source :
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Current Sociology . Mar2014, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p232-242. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Framed in a context of questioning of the social sciences by European institutions, this article offers an example of a way of doing organic public sociology for and with civil society. The authors employ the Communicative Methodology, which goes beyond oppositions between descriptive and normative sociology. It does so by using the concept of ‘successful actions,’ which brings scientific knowledge into dialogue with the knowledge of people from the communities and institutions involved. Thanks to Communicative Methodology, the European Parliament approved the successful actions from a study of a Roma neighborhood in extreme poverty, leading to the creation of a successful cooperative with sustainable employment. In sum, this public sociology calls for a dialogic democracy accountable to all voices, in which the successful actions that researchers analyze then get recreated in collaboration with the publics, so that society can implement them to improve people’s living conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *DIALOGIC theory (Communication)
*DIALOGICS
*DEMOCRACY
*PUBLIC sociology
*ROMANIES
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00113921
- Volume :
- 62
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Current Sociology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 94655772
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392113515141