One Social Scientists Philosophy of Community Engagement Presented by Janet Rechtman 62716 Lineage Big names Alinsky Couto Dewey Hirschman Kuhn Macgregor Burns Marx ParkerFollett Pickering ID: 548749
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The Mangle of Parsimony
One Social Scientist’s Philosophy of Community Engagement
Presented by Janet Rechtman
6/27/16 Slide2
Lineage
Big names
Alinsky
CoutoDeweyHirschmanKuhnMacgregor BurnsMarxParker-FollettPickeringWheatleyVaill
Theoretical bents
Buddhism
Chaos
and the new science
Critical theory
Feminism
Linguistics
and
semiotics
Secular JudaismSlide3
Basic Beliefs
Science has two
dimensions (Pickering)
: RepresentationalPerformativeKnowledge is Socially ConstructedPeople learn by doing and discoveryParsimony and its opposite (a.k.a., charity) are social constructsAdvances in knowledge emerge as a dance of agencyA dialectic of resistance and accommodation
Result is a natural
tension between emergent knowledge and paradigmatic knowledge
Community is a field theoretical construct (Lewin)
Intersectionality
Messiness
BridgingSlide4
Types of ScienceSlide5
Types of KnowledgeSlide6
My Hats
Representational
Performative
Emergent
Paradigmatic Slide7
I “
hat up
” for an intersection with community
Representational
Performative
Emergent
Paradigmatic