The problem of everyday citizenship through the prism of concepts of orders of importance and modes/regimes of engagement by Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot Cover Image

Проблемът за всекидневното гражданство през призмата на концепциите за редовете на значимост и режимите на ангажиране на Люк Болтански и Лоран Тевено
The problem of everyday citizenship through the prism of concepts of orders of importance and modes/regimes of engagement by Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot

Author(s): Petya Klimentova
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Psychology
Published by: Институт за изследване на населението и човека - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Modes of engagement; everyday citizenship; civil society; public communication.

Summary/Abstract: In defending their interests and rights, citizens confront with the need to publicly articulate and justify their positions and actions. In the new forms of civic activism that emerge and unfold outside the institutional structures of traditional civil subjects of action (trade unions, large NGOs, etc.), participants switch from regime of local action (within the controlled area and familiar community) to communication in the public sphere, where there are other rules and norms. Luc Botlanski and Laurent Thévenot problematize the constant switching between different modes of engagement, which is the prism through which everyday citizenship is viewed as a research problem here. The theory of the French authors fits in the so-called “Pragmatic turn” in the social sciences. They analyze actions-of-individual-in-community through two key concepts: “rows of significance” (logics to justify actions, behaviors, decisions) and “modes of engagement” (means of dynamic linking and positioning of the individual in the social world according to the values for substantiation and justification of the action that he engages). In the three main modes of engagement (regime of justification and critique, regime of familiar engagement, regime of individual engagement in a plan) the actor mobilizes different knowledge, skills and competencies and the success of the operation depends on the correlation between modes of action in which the individual is located, and the social space in which he implements his action.

  • Issue Year: 20/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 125-134
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian