讲座预告丨Isaac Ariail Reed：行动的垂直性——如何理解等级关系的多样性及其制度化过程

历史社会学系列讲座第19期

The Verticality of Action

行动的垂直性：

如何理解等级关系的多样性及其制度化过程

Abstract: In the transformation from the classical theory of action to the pragmatist theory of action in sociology over the past 20-30 years, the horizontal encounter between ego and alter has retained its primacy as the metatheoretical framing for understanding both intersubjectivity and the person. In contrast, this talk considers the problem of modeling hierarchy not only as a feature of social organization, an outcome of action, or a set of justifications that emerge in a dispute, but rather as a co-primary model of action and its motivation—what I call the “verticality of action.” The “word from on high” as a spur to action is thought through, in this talk, with reference to three thinkers that exist adjacent to, but not entirely inside, the sociological tradition: Sigmund Freud, Ernst Kantorowicz, and Hannah Arendt. Reconciling the verticality of action with the insights of theories of action grounded in the ego-alter encounter emerges as an important task for sociological theory going forward, as it will enable a more adroit understanding of variations in hierarchical relationships and their institutionalization.

Isaac Ariail Reed received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2007, and is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia. His research focuses on Social Theories, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology. He is the author of Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the use of theory in the human sciences (2011), and Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies (2020), both with University of Chicago Press.

时间：7月10日15:30-17:30

地点：清华大学熊知行楼211会议室

主持：

严飞，清华大学社会学系

评议：

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