Éditeurs invités
- Elisabeth Becker-Topkara, Heidelberg University
- Daniel Chernilo, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
- Sebastian Raza, University of Cambridge
- Galen Watts, University of Waterloo
Synthèse
Social life in the twenty-first century is rife with normative controversy. From clashes over immigration, religious and ethnic diversity, and nationalism, to battles over abortion, gender norms, climate change and AI, we are living through an era of tremendous moral and political upheaval. What some today term "Culture Wars" are global phenomena, roiling countries in both the Global North as well as the Global South.
Of course, moral contestation has been an endemic feature of human history. Yet what stands out about the late modern era is the sheer diversity of normative disagreement. Through a combination of technology, geographic self-selection, and online curation, individuals today increasingly inhabit their own moral worlds. As a result, despite widespread awareness of the fact of moral pluralism at the macro level, micro- and meso-level social dynamics regularly entail the segregation of groups with different, and often divergent, normative perspectives. It is for this reason, among others, that polarization—moral, political, and affective—has become a constitutive feature of the global order.
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Thèmes proposés
- How do sociologists do normativity?
- What normative traditions inform sociological research? How do these traditions relate to another?
- How should we distinguish between the components or elements of normativity in sociology research? E.g., political ideology, values, conceptions of the good, conceptions of justice, conceptions of human nature, etc.
- If social science is oriented toward the "common good" how do we, as a discipline, determine what this consists of?
- What is the relationship between evaluation and explanation in sociology?
- How should sociologists cope with normative dilemmas in their research?
- What are the roles of normative theories (e.g., ethics or political philosophy) in empirical sociology?
- What is the relationship between normativity and interdisciplinarity in sociology?
- What has led to the siloing of normative questions and issues in sociology?
- How should the discipline organize the study of sociological normativity? Should a subfield akin to political theory exist? Should all grant applications require a "statement of normativity"?
- Where has progress been made in the sociological understanding of normativity? Are there particular subfields that stand out?
- What does normative reflexivity look like?
- How do national contexts relate to normative traditions?