The steep and slippery slope of politics: Civic spirit, empowerment, and politicisation in citizen committees

Patsias, Caroline; Hermann, Julián Durazo; Patsias, Sylvie

doi:10.1080/23254823.2018.1496844

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“…In this way, group styles facilitate different “democratic imaginations” (Perrin 2006) in civic groups, shaping members’ understanding of what is appropriate for public debate, what solutions are possible, and what action can be taken to advance such solutions (Eliasoph and Cefaï 2020; Eliasoph and Lichterman 2010; Patsias, Hermann, and Patsias 2019). As past studies have shown, groups often develop varying democratic imaginations based on different images of the role of civil society and the political tactics they deem appropriate for “groups like them” (Braunstein 2017).…”

Section: Style: Interaction Patterns Scene Typification and Democrati...mentioning

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Situational Orders: Interaction Patterns and the Standards for Evaluating Public Discourse

Marom

2023

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How do civic groups judge what issues are appropriate for public discourse? And how do they know what kinds of arguments to use where? Cultural sociologists identify varying “orders of worth,” that is, historically defined systems of typification and evaluation people draw on to evaluate public arguments. Yet it remains unclear how these take form in ongoing group practices. This article theorizes how groups’ ongoing interaction patterns, or “style,” typify social scenes to steer members toward distinct orders of worth in varying situations. As I argue, different typifications of public and private scenes condition the type of arguments members deem appropriate for public discourse, with meaningful implications for their politics. Combining style and orders of worth allows us to ask how ostensibly similar groups may publicly define different political goals and value varying forms of civic engagement. I illustrate this theoretical framework with an ethnographic study of two culturally distinct groups of libertarians in the United States.

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Section: Style: Interaction Patterns Scene Typification and Democrati...mentioning

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Situational Orders: Interaction Patterns and the Standards for Evaluating Public Discourse

Marom

2023

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Bringing the Civic Landscape into Being: How Varied Patterns of Civic Action Respond to and Create Dilemmas in Empowerment Projects

Eliasoph

Céfaï

2020

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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The steep and slippery slope of politics: Civic spirit, empowerment, and politicisation in citizen committees

Cited by 2 publications

References 37 publications

Situational Orders: Interaction Patterns and the Standards for Evaluating Public Discourse

Situational Orders: Interaction Patterns and the Standards for Evaluating Public Discourse

Bringing the Civic Landscape into Being: How Varied Patterns of Civic Action Respond to and Create Dilemmas in Empowerment Projects

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