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This paper is a response to the notion of ‘live sociology’ and its call for new forms of attentiveness to the social, which also involves cultivation of time. Picking up from this observation, the paper asks: how can we find a way of using temporality systematically and routinely in our research practices? The argument concentrates on the concept of the past, and proposes a model for how the past can be reactivated and used analytically to deepen our understanding of contemporary life. To do this, the paper recovers and deploys the ancient technique of enargeia/vividness, and reconsiders Weber's sociology based on ideal-types, all in the effort to show how a special kind of a surrogate temporality/past could serve as a point of contact with things not directly observable. The aim is to show how vivid, enlivened past can be readapted for use as a type of method that triggers the release of new forms of sociological imagination.
Author(s): Gafijczuk D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: The Sociological Review
Year: 2017
Volume: 65
Issue: 4
Pages: 595-610
Print publication date: 01/11/2017
Online publication date: 17/10/2016
Acceptance date: 08/07/2016
Date deposited: 16/09/2016
ISSN (print): 0038-0261
ISSN (electronic): 1467-954X
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12419
DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12419
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