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- The questions I listed are specifically addressed in works like The Social Construction of Reality[1] and Frame Analysis[2]. From what I gather, they are widely read influential works and to put one in terms of the other, helped me frame modern social currents in a more through understanding.
1. Berger 1967 ISBN13:978-0385058988
2. Goffman 1986 ISBN:9780930350918
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This is a really good example of assuming that topics as things in themselves have the essential characteristic of neutrality. Which is itself a position. The opposite of which is that things don't have an essential characteristic of neutrality.[1]
Sorry, but there's no escape hatch in the hard sciences; there's only one level of indirection.
For any topic, I can generate a frame[2] in which it takes a non-neutral position. That's why neutrality doesn't exist.
1. teach the controversy, both sides! (in jest)
2. See Frame Analysis, Erving Goffman
- Google Scholar found some uses, like Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: The Experience of Play in Work and Games. by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Review by: Murray S. Davis Source: Contemporary Sociology , Mar., 1977, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Mar., 1977), pp. 197-199 at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2065805.pdf
> Sociologists will find most provocative the author's alternative to Erving Goffman's analysis of self-consciousness. Both are mystics in the sense that they investigate the conditions causing someone to lose self-consciousness. But Goffman is what I would call a pessimystic, for in Frame Analysis (1974:378ff) he examines how the self disappears in the "negative experience" that results when situational contradictions increase its stress; Csikszentmihalyi is an optimystic, for he ex- amines how the self disappears in the "flow experience" that results when situational consonances decrease its stress
and "Anglophonia and Optimysticism: Sebastian Knight’s Bookshelves"
> The Anglophone universe becomes a linguistic afterlife in which Nabokov optimistically hopes to resurrect his Russian art, just as he “optimystically” (the pun belongs to Sebastian Knight’s “Dean Park”) expects that the otherworld preserves the spirits of his dead.
Further, https://archive.org/details/libraryjournal122sep/page/n489/m...
> Coauthors Taylor and Crain discuss the concept of "optimysticism," first intro- duced in Taylor's Messengers of Light. The phrase refers to the ability to see beyond the worst of situations to the mystery of goodness at the core of life.
and from 'The optimystic's handbook' at https://archive.org/details/optimysticshandb00tayl/page/n15/...
> Optimysticism is the choice we make not only to experience the best of this world but also to see beyond this world into eternity, and in doing so, to live the mystery of the fullest here on earth.
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