Към една социоаналитична интерпретация на жизнените преходи в трансформиращото (се) село
Toward a socioanalytic interpretation of life transitions in the (self-)transforming village

Author(s): Milena Tasheva
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Applied Sociology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Bulgarian village; socioanalysis; life transitions; biographical strategies; biographical trajectories
Summary/Abstract: The text presents the author’s work on the project Life transition in the self-transforming village, articulating the theoretical context of the socioanalysis of self-inheritance with the empirical context of the Bulgarian village, through an analysis of life transitions and biographical strategies in a concrete empirical case. The first part presents the accent of institutional politics related to Bulgarian villages as well as the specific focus of the project and of the text – the local com- munity as the acting subject of practical strategies of self-inheritance. The theoretical framework of the study, namely the post-Bourdieusian socioanalysis, is succinctly presented, as well as the methodology used and the design of the research undertaken. The second part enters the subject matter itself, thematizing the main research problem – the dialectic between the transformations of the inhabited locality and the transformation of the people who inhabit it. Special attention is given to the life transitions undertaken by the analysed person and the strategies of becoming an inside dweller of the new places and positions that the person has deployed, guided by her practical sense of regularity and correctness. The last analytic step presented in this text is the outlining of the socioanalytic profile of the personal Who-identity of the analysed person by making explicit the ‘strategy of practical sense’ that is characteristic of the studied person. This time-persistent, repetitive investing structure is the foundation of a multitude of statements, decisions, actions, and has the functions of a symbolic nerve which, permeating the rather diverse biographical episodes, in fact links them together into the unity of a seemingly discordant but in fact internally consistent and coherent life trajectory.

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