Methodological Irony and Media Analysis: On Textual Presentations in the Work of Theorising

Carlin, Andrew P.

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“…Whilst Coser distinguishes between society-members and novelists, his distinction is clearly that of society-members versus "trained social scientists". Methodological irony receives more detailed treatment elsewhere (Carlin 2002(Carlin , 2009G. Watson 1994;R.…”

Section: On Sociology and "Literature"mentioning

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The Corpus Status of Literature in Teaching Sociology: Novels as “Sociological Reconstruction”

Carlin¹

2010

Am Soc

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Using fiction in teaching sociology involves what Harvey Sacks calls "sociological reconstruction". Numerous comments on teaching sociology provide advice and suggestions on the use of literature and "what counts" as "sociological" literature, including specific titles. This paper goes further: while the use of literature is a routine feature of sociological accounts, discerning the relevance of a novel, or a passage within a novel, to sociological themes is an analyst's achievement. It requires work both by the teacher and the student to recognize the relevance of fiction to sociology. Previous studies on fiction in sociology focus on the pedagogic aspects of using novels but fail to acknowledge the key problem of "sociological reconstruction" attempted through the use of novels. The paper explicates the crucial and generic issue of "corpus status", which is fore-grounded by the use of nonsociological materials in sociology.

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The Corpus Status of Literature in Teaching Sociology: Novels as “Sociological Reconstruction”

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2010

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“…This juxtaposition of owning or lacking a capability for being ironic was implicitly present throughout the Kaltio episode reports in Kaleva . In the case of these media practices one can also refer to the idea of ‘methodological irony’, the way in which ‘experts’ use sarcastic figures of speech to put themselves above the target under discussion, assuming that they are the only participants capable of figuring out the overall picture (Carlin, 2002).…”

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The media and the irony of politically serious situations: consequences of the Muhammed cartoons in Finland

Ridanpää

2012

Media, Culture & Society

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This article discusses the connections between political conflicts and situational irony and their relationship to the media. The focus is on a continuum of ironic events that started from the crisis following the publication of the Muhammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which led to a satirical comic strip being published on the web pages of Kaltio, a small cultural journal produced in Oulu, Northern Finland, and ended in the dismissal of the journal’s editor. The empirical discussion concentrates on how the newspaper Kaleva, representing the media, functioned as an active participant in the process of making the incidents surrounding the Kaltio comic strip episode appear ironic, even though the matter was in fact politically highly sensitive. The purpose is to illustrate how and with what intentions political discourses and various textual strategies such as explicit and implicit verbal irony are used. The main argument is that making politically sensitive situations appear ironic is a matter of positioning values, in this case raising the value of freedom of speech above religious norms.

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Harold Garfinkel and Pragmatics

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Methodological Irony and Media Analysis: On Textual Presentations in the Work of Theorising

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

The Corpus Status of Literature in Teaching Sociology: Novels as “Sociological Reconstruction”

The Corpus Status of Literature in Teaching Sociology: Novels as “Sociological Reconstruction”

The media and the irony of politically serious situations: consequences of the Muhammed cartoons in Finland

Harold Garfinkel and Pragmatics

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