2018
DOI: 10.1177/1368431018814348
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Towards a revised theory of collective learning processes: Argumentation, narrative and the making of the social bond

Abstract: Societies change; and sociology has, since its inception, described and evaluated these changes. This article proposes a revised theory of collective learning processes, a conceptual framework which addresses ways in which people make sense of and cope with change. Drawing on Habermas’ classic proposal, but shifting the focus from argumentation towards storytelling, it explains how certain articulations allow for collective learning processes (imagining more inclusive orders), while others block learning proce… Show more

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“…In western societies, political parties engage in tamed communication processes characterized by argumentative debate, though this evolves within a narratively structured world. This means that beneath argumentation lies a narrative (genre) which stories actors, events and boundaries (Forchtner, 2016;Forchtner et al, 2018). Because of the storytelling foundation of political communication, I define the politics of belonging as a political drama that includes cultural performances, such as crafting stories that create meaningful events, subjectivities and boundaries.…”
Section: The Narrative Boundary Model: Stories Genres and Belongingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In western societies, political parties engage in tamed communication processes characterized by argumentative debate, though this evolves within a narratively structured world. This means that beneath argumentation lies a narrative (genre) which stories actors, events and boundaries (Forchtner, 2016;Forchtner et al, 2018). Because of the storytelling foundation of political communication, I define the politics of belonging as a political drama that includes cultural performances, such as crafting stories that create meaningful events, subjectivities and boundaries.…”
Section: The Narrative Boundary Model: Stories Genres and Belongingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Communication flows remain within the self-centred conclusive boundaries of "us," the stranger is excluded from open and egalitarian communication processes (i.e., democratic debate). Tragedy and irony, in contrast, facilitate open communication processes that foster the inclusion of "new" or dissimilar perspectives (i.e., the stranger's perspective) on the basis of self-decentred and inconclusive social boundaries (Forchtner, Engelken Jorge, & Eder, 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The theory is that social relations are constituted through storytelling and therefore the form of the story (the narrative structure) is expected to be "reflected" in some way in the form of social relations. In a recent paper (Forchtner, Engelken-Jorge & Eder, 2020), we argued that we can distinguish four forms that structure stories. These forms are shaped by two parameters, the purity/impurity of the hero and the reassuring/irritating course of the story line.…”
Section: Klaus Edermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The structures of social relations can no longer be read from such ‘naturalized’ social entities. A non-naturalistic way to make them visible is to analyze them as relations between individuals that occupy structurally equivalent positions in networks (see Smith, 2007; White, 2008; Eder, 2011; Forchtner et al, 2018).…”
Section: Confrontation Of Normativities and Empirical Challengementioning
confidence: 99%