Postface: Making Sense of Reality Together: Interdisciplinary ‘Ways of Seeing,’

“Postface: Making Sense of Reality Together: Interdisciplinary ‘Ways of Seeing,’” in John R. Bowen, Nicolas Dodier, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Anita Hardon (eds.) Pragmatic Inquiry: Critical Concepts for Social Sciences. New York: Routledge, Forthcoming

11 Pages Posted: 28 Sep 2020

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Michèle Lamont

Harvard University - Department of Sociology

Date Written: 2020

Abstract

Pragmatic Inquiry brings together a remarkably creative transcontinental and interdisciplinary group of researchers who met on a regular basis over four years to explore together novel analytical tools to make sense and account for social reality. It will give the reader a renewed sense of possibilities for capturing social complexity. Each chapter zooms in on a different conceptual device that aims to illuminate relatively unexplored aspects of reality. The authors draw on the work of influential scholars – for instance, Foucault’s notion of “dispositif” – but they go beyond them by digging in greater depth, extending and transposing such concepts to new objects.

Suggested Citation

Lamont, Michèle, Postface: Making Sense of Reality Together: Interdisciplinary ‘Ways of Seeing,’ (2020). “Postface: Making Sense of Reality Together: Interdisciplinary ‘Ways of Seeing,’” in John R. Bowen, Nicolas Dodier, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Anita Hardon (eds.) Pragmatic Inquiry: Critical Concepts for Social Sciences. New York: Routledge, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3671793 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3671793

Michèle Lamont (Contact Author)

Harvard University - Department of Sociology ( email )

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