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Author(s): Wallace, R.
Batel, S.
Date: 2024
Title: Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements
Journal title: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
Volume: 54
Number: 1
Pages: 65 - 85
Reference: Wallace, R., & Batel, S. (2024). Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(1), 65-85. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12398
ISSN: 0021-8308
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): 10.1111/jtsb.12398
Keywords: Futures
Power relations
Pragmatic sociology
Social change
Social representation
Temporality
Abstract: To understand social issues and practices such as those related to climate change and technological change that are clearly future-oriented – collectively experienced events that are “not yet” – and co-constructed by different actors, we need nuanced conceptualizations of how people think about, negotiate and co-create futures that allow us to understand not only what people (can) think and do about future-related issues but also how that happens, what for and with which implications. However, so far, one of the key theoretical approaches that has conceptualised how people make meaning in situations of change and uncertainty – the socio-psychological social representations theory (SRT) – has not often engaged with the future or with different forms of temporality. By contrast, the French pragmatic sociology of engagements and critique (PS) has engaged with these notions, conceptualising them in relation to materiality and a plurality of moral orientations – two dimensions often seen as key to how collective futures are made and imagined. To offer a more nuanced and systematic conceptualization of how people represent the future and with what consequences, this paper will present, compare and synthesise SRT and PS, as a first step towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on social change and representations of the future.
Peerreviewed: yes
Access type: Open Access
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