Reconsidering table talk: Critical thoughts on the relationship between sociology,autobiography and self-indulgence |
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Authors: | Eric Mykhalovskiy |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3 North York, Ontario, Canada |
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Abstract: | Those who use autobiographical perspectives in the practice of sociology and related disciplines have noted, with concern,
the association of their work with self-indulgence (Devault, 1994; Jackson, 1990; Okely, 1992; Kreiger, 1991). This paper
elaborates this concern by directing analytic attention to the nature of the charge of self-indulgence. The paper reads as
an autobiographical defense of autobiographical sociology. It uses the naming of my own work as self-involved as a point of
departure for explicating the implications of this regulatory practice. The device of irony is used to expose how self-indulgence,
as a critique invoking highly insular relations of readership, authorship and subject/object distinction, relies on the conventions
of a traditional masculine academic discourse. |
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Keywords: | autobiography self-indulgence subjectivity |
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