Morawska, E (2014) Composite meaning, flexible ranges, and multi-level conditions of conviviality: Exploring the polymorph. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 17 (4). pp. 357-374. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549413510418
Morawska, E (2014) Composite meaning, flexible ranges, and multi-level conditions of conviviality: Exploring the polymorph. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 17 (4). pp. 357-374. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549413510418
Morawska, E (2014) Composite meaning, flexible ranges, and multi-level conditions of conviviality: Exploring the polymorph. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 17 (4). pp. 357-374. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549413510418
Abstract
In this article, I present, first, a composite definition of conviviality whose constitutive components are conceived in terms of degrees rather than as present-or-absent conditions. Next, I offer a preliminary list of macro-, micro- and individual-level circumstances which co-shape conviviality into different arrangements and intensities. Within the framework of the structuration theory which informs my discussion, I then identify the characteristics of cultures of conviviality as different from the orientations and practices of the individuals who (re)create them, and I propose a distinction between the conditions contributing to the emergence of cultures of conviviality and the circumstances responsible for their endurance over time. In the last part of the article, I identify different goals of case-based investigations and propose some strategies of comparative analysis of the contributing circumstances and different forms and ?contents? of conviviality, and I illustrate it with examples taken from my previous studies of ground-level multiculturalism in different locations.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Contributing circumstances; conviviality; flexible meanings; strategies of comparative investigation |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2015 10:34 |
Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2024 17:40 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13931 |
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