Moving Armies of Stop Signs
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In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 43, No. 2, 06.2013, p. 225-245.
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T1 - Moving Armies of Stop Signs
AU - Dellwing, Michael
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - Most work on the public-private division concerns itself with identifying the lines between both and the historical developments that shifted this line. These contributions provide an aerial view that pays little attention to the interactional micropolitics of privacy. The present article uses a pragmatist approach to analyze the local negotiation of privacy and publicity. It relies on scholarship on "accounts" and "aligning actions" to view "privacy-work" as an attempt to remove actions from having to account for them in a specific social group and "publicity-work" as a converse attempt to draw them out by demanding that actors account. Thus, I will understand privacy as whatever is hidden, situationally, behind "moving armies of stop signs" for alignment demands.
AB - Most work on the public-private division concerns itself with identifying the lines between both and the historical developments that shifted this line. These contributions provide an aerial view that pays little attention to the interactional micropolitics of privacy. The present article uses a pragmatist approach to analyze the local negotiation of privacy and publicity. It relies on scholarship on "accounts" and "aligning actions" to view "privacy-work" as an attempt to remove actions from having to account for them in a specific social group and "publicity-work" as a converse attempt to draw them out by demanding that actors account. Thus, I will understand privacy as whatever is hidden, situationally, behind "moving armies of stop signs" for alignment demands.
KW - pragmatism
KW - private sphere
KW - public sphere
KW - Rorty
KW - social constructivism
KW - Sociology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84877352358&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0048393112445209
DO - 10.1177/0048393112445209
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:84877352358
VL - 43
SP - 225
EP - 245
JO - Philosophy of the Social Sciences
JF - Philosophy of the Social Sciences
SN - 0048-3931
IS - 2
ER -