Mobilizowanie i relatywizowanie przemocy. Interakcyjny wymiar przemocy w stojącej przed dylematem moralnym grupie, w której pozycja żadnej osoby nie jest uprzywilejowana
Mobilizing and Relativizing Violence: Interactional Aspects of Violence in Equal Status Groups Facing Moral Dilemma

Summary/Abstract: Adopting the perspective of microsociology, ethnomethodology and Goffmanian sociology, I examine the relationship between the artificiality (theatricality) of the decision-making situation, the affective dynamics created in the "laboratory" (in the theater room) and the interactive processes between participants. In order to reveal tacit methods of coordinating activities (as opposed to explicit adherence to institutional rules), I used an innovative methodology. Together with performing artists, we created an artificial research situation (interactive theater performance) in which six people found themselves in a moral dilemma. These people's interactions were filmed and then analyzed using videography. No person's position was privileged. What happens when strangers in equal positions encounter a moral dilemma? In the article, I focus on the analysis of violence that occurred in groups or that groups had to face. I will show how violence is socially mobilized and relativized in order to maintain interactional order.

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