Exploring Reflective Subjectivity through the Construction of the `Ethical Other' in Interview Transcripts  

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Burr, Jennifer

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sociology vol. 43 no. 02 (Apr. 2009), page 323–339.
Topik: Bakhtin; Mead; other people’s voices; reflective subjectivity
Fulltext: 323.pdf (178.24KB)

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I aim here to explore the area of ‘other people’s voices’ in interview text through a comparative discussion of the work of George Mead and the Russian philosopher and theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. Specifically, I aim to outline Mead and Bakhtin’s theories of reflective subjectivity, or how we recognize our self by looking back upon our experience.To explore the relative concepts of reflective subjectivity, I analyse selective quotes from the transcripts of interviews conducted with people who have received donor insemination about their views and experiences of donor anonymity. I conclude that the choices demonstrated in the interview data are, to use Bakhtin’s term, answerable. The anticipation of response in dialogic forms represented in other people’s voices is a potentially creative process and more than seeking agreement with the generalized other of the community. Bakhtin’s unique theorizing contributes to our understanding of the ethical dimensions of everyday life.

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