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Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life
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Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that values are beyond reason, and merely subjective or matters of convention, with little or nothing to do with the kind of beings people are, the quality of their social relations, their material circumstances or well-being. The author shows how social theory and philosophy need to change to reflect the complexity of everyday ethical concerns and the importance people attach to dignity. He argues for a robustly critical social science that explains and evaluates social life from the standpoint of human flourishing.
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“To reiterate, we are real, needy material beings (emotional, social, dependent and so much more both physically and psychologically; see Sayer 2011).”
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“To the extent that the clinician's role includes making decisions (perhaps on a shared basis with the patient), these are not merely 'rational' (i.e. based on the best available medical evidence) but also practical and ethicalthat is, they take account of the situated details of individual cases, including a serious engagement with 'what matters to people' to particular flesh-and-blood patients.77”
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“It also helps explain how and why some things ‘move’ us and others don’t. Compassion, empathy, love, and grief, that is, cannot be rejected most of the time, because they are real as they relate to things that matter to us (Sayer 2011).”
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“The theoretical process in this project is mainly shaped by the work of Bhaskar (1979), Archer (2000, 2003, 2011) and Sayer (2000, 2011) on structure and agency; Bhaskar et al. (2018) on interdisciplinary and social stratification (Danermark, 2019); and Conservation of Resources (COR) theory of…”
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“11 Rather they flow from or are situated to reason in Aristotle’s own work, but also in later developments from his work (see for example, Smith, 2015; Sayer, 2011).”
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“…2002, 2005; carman 2003), emphasizing his contribution to both a general understanding of scientific practices, and to human geography in particular (e.g. paddock 2004; elden 2005; Malpas 2006; Sayer 2011; Simonsen 2013; recent contributions include e.g. Hannah 2013 and olwig 2013 in this journal).”
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“Rather, the wider argument here is that it is important to consider not only how such normative frameworks are taken up (see Broom, 2009), but the ethical and emotional trajectories within which they are enacted (see Frank, 1998; Sayer, 2011).”
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“Things matter deeply to people – humans are “sentient, evaluative” beings who form attachments to things, ideas, and others (Sayer, 2011, p. 1).”
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- Sayer, A.
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