An interview with Laurent Thévenot: On engagement, critique, commonality, and power

Blokker, Paul; Brighenti, Andrea Mubi

doi:10.1177/1368431011412351

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“…Despite their messy contingency, institutional logics do manifest themselves in situations, indeed in conventions of familiar engagement that do not accede to a common good, nor even to what Thévenot refers to as a common place (Blokker and Brighenti, 2011). However our results also pose a conundrum for the study of institutional logics.…”

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The institutional logics of love: measuring intimate life

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Does love follow an institutional logic? 1 Institutional logics have been applied to the study of organizational behaviors where changes are effected in public through the actions of officeholders and there is abundant textual activity both in justification and codification, all of which leave their traces in public statement, law, regulation, budgets and official statement. Romantic love, in contrast, is an individual phenomenon effected in private through interpersonal relations that not only leave little textual trace, but whose enactment depends on registers of corporeality, affect and co-presence that do not even accede to language, let alone text. Is it even possible to investigate the intimate behaviors of college students to see if they are ordered by the institutional logic of romantic love?2 We think so. In this paper we build on a theorization of institutional logics and a long tradition of measuring cultural logics from a relational perspective that provide figurations more appropriate to that theory. We use the formal method of correspondence analysis (MCA) to examine a set of data recently collected from a sample of American university students in order to see how institutional logics operate in the lived experience of individuals who negotiate their intimate "love lives" within a complex social space in which different institutional logics are operative. What is An Institutional Logic?Institutional logics obtain where subjects, practices and objects cohere as cultural grammars.3 An institutional logic is an order of production composed of distinctive subjects and In contrast, the eminent historian of the conventions of American courtship prefaces her book this way: "the word love scarcely appears in the following pages. This is not because I have a cynical view of the subject but because love was not so much the province of convention. Convention looked to a multiplicity of desires, not to love itself. It structured and controlled the manifestation of sexual desire and the desires for security, for status, for a clear role in societyeven the desire for love. Love and desire are intertwined, but I will leave love to lovers in private and examine the public conventions of desire" (Bailey, 2013:12). 3 Institutional logics refer to materialized languages, not just linguistic speech, but to constellations of unit acts, concepts, objects and relations. Note that this paper builds on but also goes beyond earlier theoretical and empirical work that we have published on the formal analysis of institutional logics as duality structures (e

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“…Over a longer term, certain conventions may become forms (investment in forms) that can refer to standardized criteria for education export activity at institutional and national levels. Though, investment in forms as such is susceptible to criticism and can be challenged (Blokker and Brighenti 2011). However, without the national quality criteria for education export activities, each HEI is balancing the conflicting demands independently and investment in forms happens only at the institutional level.…”

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“…In CT, quality assurance (internal and external) can be considered immaterial dispositifs that represent investment in forms (Diaz-Bone and Salais 2011; Thévenot 1984). Investment in forms aims to generalize process or knowledge by putting them in a certain conventional form by disregarding single or optional cases (Blokker and Brighenti 2011). Investment in forms can support coordination and trust among actors, thus enabling them to make action more effective (Diaz-Bone and Salais 2011).…”

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Quality conventions in the exported Finnish master’s degree programme in teacher education in Indonesia

Juusola

Räihä

2019

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In recent higher education research, quality in education export action has been explored from the perspective of traditional education export countries such as the UK and USA. However, less attention is given to novice education export providers that rely on different educational traditions. In this article, we explore quality of education as it is done in one exported Finnish master's degree programme in teacher education in Indonesia. Our theoretical premise is based on the convention theory that relies on pragmatic sociology. The empirical data consist of 16 semi-structured students' and staff members' interviews gathered between the years 2016 and 2017 in Finland and in Indonesia. The results of this study stress the plurality of the quality factors that indicate the expectations by the students and the staff members, but also the priorities of the providers as to what is essential in exported degree-based education. From the perspective of convention theory, these considerations emphasize that the successful implementation of the exported master's degree programme in teacher education is based on the professional-academic convention (as research-based teacher education) that together with the civic-domestic convention (as societal impact, local traditions and Finnish approach to pedagogy) influenced the content of the educational programme through personal interaction.

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“…In familiar engagement, in contrast, doubt is reflected privately, for example, in feelings of unease. This two-sided engagement, according to Thévenot, is necessary for a living communityas it ensures the continuity of the democratic progress of a society (Blokker & Brighenti, 2011). On the other hand, the confident use of an engagement mode requires limiting inquietude (Blokker, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

How complex domination enables selection: Academic hiring conventions in a Pakistani university

Ali

Brandl

2018

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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The heterogeneity of criteria and of the faculty members involved in assessing candidates for academic positions raises the question how colleagues can find a common operational mode that enables them to select candidates. In this paper, we draw on convention theory (CT) to examine how powerful actors foster quietude and confidence in prevailing conventions which perpetuate their privileges. Findings from a study of a university in Pakistan show how actors use coordinative power to amend regulations, but also highlight how participating colleagues may resist this. The findings help to explicate the notion of complex domination and enrich CT scholars' understanding of factors that can exacerbate inequalities in hiring.

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An interview with Laurent Thévenot: On engagement, critique, commonality, and power

Cited by 50 publications

References 11 publications

The institutional logics of love: measuring intimate life

The institutional logics of love: measuring intimate life

Quality conventions in the exported Finnish master’s degree programme in teacher education in Indonesia

How complex domination enables selection: Academic hiring conventions in a Pakistani university

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