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Being undisciplined : doing justice to the immensity of human experience

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27/03/2017
Author
Rapport, Nigel
Keywords
Britain
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Existence
Individuality
World-view
Life-project
Symbolic interpretation
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Abstract
This monograph has been an appraisal of the anthropology of Britain as a project. In this final piece, the volume is reviewed and an argument is made along Kierkegaardian lines. Human life is an inward, personal adventure, of each in the face of the other: life is individual and possessed of infinite depth. Conducting social-scientific research (whether ‘anthropological’ or ‘sociological’) in a language – verbal, gestural and conventional – with which the researcher is ‘at home’ enables that individual and inward life, and its public and social dimensions, to be apprehended with a subtlety and sophistication far more difficult to acquire in ‘foreign’ settings. Anthropology ‘at home’ is ideally placed to differentiate between the cultural forms of life, the social structures of life, and how these are individually inhabited and personally experienced. To do justice to human life – descriptive, analytic – is to apprehend an immensity – a complexity and contrariety – beyond the delimitings of partial labels and categories, even beyond particular disciplines of study.
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Rapport , N 2017 , ' Being undisciplined : doing justice to the immensity of human experience ' , The Sociological Review , vol. 65 , no. 1 , pp. 196-204 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0081176917693552
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The Sociological Review
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0081176917693552
ISSN
0038-0261
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Journal article
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Copyright © 2017, Sociological Review Publication Limited. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0081176917693552
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10299

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