Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification
This paper addresses the way that social power and domination can be understood in terms of collective intentionality. I argue that the essence of stable forms of rational power and domination must be understood as the functional influence of material resource control and the power to control the no...
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| description | This paper addresses the way that social power and domination can be understood in terms of collective intentionality. I argue that the essence of stable forms of rational power and domination must be understood as the functional influence of material resource control and the power to control the norms and collective-intentional, constitutive rules that guide institutions. As a result, the routinization and internalization of these rules by subjects becomes the criterion of success for any system of social power and social domination. I then consider how this relates the phenomenon of reification, which I proceed to show is when consciousness has been shaped by constitutive rules and group collective intentionality that sustain relations of domination and control and accept them as basic social facts, as second nature. I then go on to show parallels between Searle and Lukács before outlining the distinction between descriptive and critical social ontology. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a8f5f480ae4408a9c051afb9d6e16222023-09-03T04:06:13ZengUniversity of ViennaJournal of Social Ontology2196-96632017-06-013220722910.1515/jso-2016-0017jso-2016-0017Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and ReificationThompson Michael J.0William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470, USAThis paper addresses the way that social power and domination can be understood in terms of collective intentionality. I argue that the essence of stable forms of rational power and domination must be understood as the functional influence of material resource control and the power to control the norms and collective-intentional, constitutive rules that guide institutions. As a result, the routinization and internalization of these rules by subjects becomes the criterion of success for any system of social power and social domination. I then consider how this relates the phenomenon of reification, which I proceed to show is when consciousness has been shaped by constitutive rules and group collective intentionality that sustain relations of domination and control and accept them as basic social facts, as second nature. I then go on to show parallels between Searle and Lukács before outlining the distinction between descriptive and critical social ontology.https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2016-0017collective intentionalitysocial powerdeontic powerdominationreification |
| spellingShingle | Thompson Michael J. Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification Journal of Social Ontology collective intentionality social power deontic power domination reification |
| title | Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification |
| title_full | Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification |
| title_fullStr | Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification |
| title_short | Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification |
| title_sort | collective intentionality social domination and reification |
| topic | collective intentionality social power deontic power domination reification |
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