Jason Glynos, David Howarth. “Interpretations, Mechanisms, and Logics” paper presented at 1st IDA World Conference Roskilde University, Denmark. Sept 8-10, 2008. pp.37.<\/p>\n
Relations of Subordination<\/span><\/p>\n Those practices which appear not to invite or need public contestation of social norms, either by the subjects engaged in the practice, or by the theorist who is interpreting the practice.\u00a0 In the absence of dislocations, existing social relations are reproduced in this mode without public contestation.\u00a0 Here we might include everyday activities such as working, going on holiday, playing sport … All these activities may in fact involve and rely upon relations o subordination, but they are not experienced as oppressive, nor are they regarded as unjust by the analyst.<\/p>\n Relations of Oppression<\/span><\/p>\n Point to the features of a practice, or a regime of practices, that are challenged by subjects in the name of a principle or ideal allegedly denied or violated by the social practice itself.\u00a0 Here the experiences of dislocation<\/strong> are symbolized in terms of a questioning of norms, which may be accompanied by political challenges to the practices or regime of practices examined.\u00a0 But equally they may be met with renewed efforts to offset challenges and maintain the existing social relations.\u00a0 Here the political dimension comes to the fore.<\/p>\n Relations of Domination<\/span><\/p>\n Point to the way subjects are judged by the theorist<\/strong><\/em> to be dominated or unjustly treated, whether or not the norms so judged are explicitly challenged by those engaged in the practice.\u00a0 Here interpretation may focus on those practices which appear to actively prevent the public contestation of social norms from arising in the first place.<\/em><\/strong> In this case, social relations are understood to be reproduced without public contestation, either because dislocatory experiences are processed privately or informally, or because they do not arise at all.\u00a0 They may take the form of ‘off the record’ complaints … made by employees amongst themselves, or even toward their managers, who then elicit, deflect, or satisfy requests … On the other hand, the concealing of dislocation will be accomplished most completely and effectively if subjects are rendered ideologically complicit in the practices they partake.\u00a0 More generally, then, in the context of a set of dislocatory experiences, these ‘pre-emptive’ aspects of a practice seek to maintain existing social structures by muffling or guiding the process by which grievances are articulated, so that the existing social structure remains unthreatened.\u00a0 An important part of contemporary labour process theory, organization theory, and critical management studies literature deals with precisely these aspects of social practices.\u00a0 Moreover, since such activities are geared toward keeping public contestation at bay, they tend to be unofficial in character, in the sense that they operate in the interstices of official institutional practices.<\/p>\n Characterizing practices as fostering or reinforcing relations of domination immediately highlights the sociological and normative character<\/strong> of the approach we advocate.<\/p>\n After all, the very identification of a social norm as worthy<\/strong><\/em> of public contestation, as well as the claim that a norm is actively prevented from being contested, presupposes some view of social domination.\u00a0 It implies that we already have some grasp of the practice, both sociologically and normatively.\u00a0 And this is where social logics<\/strong><\/em> are particularly relevant, as they are crucial in making explicit the sociological and normative<\/strong> aspects of this process of characterization.\u00a0\u00a0 In this context, to highlight the political dimension<\/strong> of a practice entails pointing to those aspects of a practice which seek to generate, maintain, contain, or resolve<\/span> the public contestation of social norms.\u00a0 Put differently, the political aspects of a practice involve attempts to challenge and replace existing social structures, as well as attempts to neutralize such challenges in a transformist way (citing Gramsci Selections from the Prison Notebooks. 1971: 58-9) Jason Glynos, David Howarth. “Interpretations, Mechanisms, and Logics” paper presented at 1st IDA World Conference Roskilde University, Denmark. 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