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Exit as Critique: Communes and Intentional Communities in the 1960s and Today
Rückzug als Kritik: Kommunen und intentionale Gemeinschaften in den 1960er Jahren und heute
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Abstract While social scientists have traditionally confined their attention to practices of critique modelled on collective, publicly visible speech acts, this article draws attention to practices of critique which take the form of individual, private, and mute acts of withdrawal. First, drawing on the prag... mehr
While social scientists have traditionally confined their attention to practices of critique modelled on collective, publicly visible speech acts, this article draws attention to practices of critique which take the form of individual, private, and mute acts of withdrawal. First, drawing on the pragmatic sociology of critique and its conceptualization of different “orders of worth,” it is argued that communards and inhabitants of intentional communities in the 1960s and today practice critique by withdrawing from conventional arenas of political participation and social interactions. Critique is performed through withdrawal because all legitimate channels towards the broad public appear blocked or useless. Second, this study points out differences within this “exit variety of critique” between the two time-periods. The transgressive withdrawal of communards in the 1960s was a radical critique of mainstream society and its values. In contrast, today’s communards withdraw from conventional arenas of social interactions to live in ways which more consistently put into practice their beliefs and hence practice a reformist critique of mainstream society’s unsustainability and individualism.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wohngemeinschaft; historische Entwicklung; Aussteiger; Kollektivverhalten; USA; Boltanski, L.; Kritik; Nachhaltigkeit; Gesellschaftskritik; Massengesellschaft; politische Partizipation
Klassifikation
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Critique; exit; withdrawal; commune; intentional community; gesture; sociology of critique; Boltanski; USA; 1960s
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 147-171
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 42 (2017) 3
Heftthema
Critique and Social Change: Historical, Cultural, and Institutional Perspectives
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.42.2017.3.147-171
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)