Network of Experts in the Processes of Identity Formation within Contemporary Societies

  • Daniel Muriel University of Salford (UK) Universidad del País Vasco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/POSO.47514
Keywords: ethico-politics, expert culture, network of experts, identity, social meaning

Abstract

In this article I explore how the expert knowledge participates in the construction of identities in contemporary societies. After alluding to social figures such as the (pre)modern intellectual along with other contemporary actors, I describe the current social context as marked by the political rationalities of advanced liberalism, ethico-politics and the emergence and consolidation of an expert culture. From there, three consequences can be drawn: firstly, the most important knowledge agent in contemporary societies is collective, the network of experts; secondly, those networks of experts have a great capacity to produce transformations thanks to their grade of permeation throughout social fabric; thirdly, the network of experts acts as a social reality production agent similar to a dispositif that answers to a historical matter of urgency – the necessity of constructing meaning in the contemporaneity – but without a particular willing that guides its strategic orientation.

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Daniel Muriel, University of Salford (UK) Universidad del País Vasco
Daniel Muriel es Investigador Postdoctoral en la Universidad de Salford (Reino Unido) con un contrato financiado por el Gobierno Vasco (Programa Postdoctoral). En los últimos años ha estado principalmente involucrado en una investigación en la que se cruzan el saber experto, el patrimonio cultural y la identidad, pero también ha trabajado en el campo de las nuevas tecnologías, la cultura, la juventud, la precariedad, la educación, el racismo, la drogodependencia o las víctimas. En este momento, lleva a cabo un proyecto de investigación en el Departamento de Sociología y Criminología de la Universidad de Salford donde estudia los procesos que generan al jugador de videojuegos como subjetividad contemporánea.
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Published
2016-11-30
How to Cite
Muriel D. (2016). Network of Experts in the Processes of Identity Formation within Contemporary Societies. Política y Sociedad, 54(1), 143-161. https://doi.org/10.5209/POSO.47514
Issue
Vol. 54 No. 1 (2017): Estudios críticos organizacionales: hacia una repolitización de los nuevos mundos del trabajo
Section
Miscelaneus

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