Abstract:
In this collection we develop the concept of \"complicity\" as a means to understand how medical sociologists might be allied in unexpected or uncomfortable ways with dominant structures of power. After giving examples of complicity from our own research, we introduce existing scholarship on complicity, describing it as a concept that comes coupled with a sense of responsibility and that is related to, yet distinct from, a range of other terms including reflexivity, collusion, guilt, and shame. We also discuss how complicity has been described to occur at the level of the institution, within theoretical frameworks, and during mundane moments that we face on a day-to-day basis. Building on this review, we hypothesise that medical sociology - where access to fieldsites is often hard won, where \"researching up\" in medical and scientific institutions is common, and where our own work frequently concerns matters central to medical institutions themselves - is a discipline wherein mundane complicity is likely. Following this gathering exercise, we introduce the interventions that comprise this collection: interventions from a diversity of sociologists of health and illness who, perhaps for the first time in written form, account for how complicities of various kinds came to shape their work and how, with varying levels of success, they have sought redress. We close by offering some insight into the process of developing this collection, celebrating its successes while also acknowledging that many gaps and complicities remain.
摘要:
在这个集合中,我们发展了“共谋”的概念,作为理解医学社会学家如何以意想不到或不舒服的方式与主导权力结构结盟的一种手段。在我们自己的研究中给出了同谋的例子之后,我们引入现有的共谋奖学金,把它描述为一个概念,伴随着责任感,然而不同的是,一系列其他术语,包括反身性,勾结,内疚,内疚和羞耻。我们还讨论了共谋是如何被描述为在机构层面发生的,在理论框架内,在我们每天面对的平凡时刻。在这次审查的基础上,我们假设医学社会学——在那里进入现场通常是来之不易的,在医学和科学机构中“研究”很常见,而我们自己的工作经常涉及医疗机构本身的核心问题——这是一个很可能存在平凡共谋的学科。在这次聚会练习之后,我们介绍了构成这一集合的干预措施:来自健康和疾病社会学家的各种干预措施,也许是第一次以书面形式,解释各种复杂性如何影响他们的工作,以及如何,不同程度的成功,他们寻求补救。最后,我们提供了一些关于开发这个系列的过程的见解,庆祝它的成功,同时也承认仍然存在许多差距和复杂性。