Chinese Journal of Sociology ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 188-216.

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The Urgency of Practice

LUO Chaoming   

  1. Department of Sociology, Nanjing University of Science & Technology
  • Online:2017-07-20 Published:2017-07-20
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    This research was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.30916013118).

Abstract:

Urgency is one of the essential properties of practice,but the urgency of practice has long been forgotten in the history of social thought. AlthoughPierre Bourdieu repeatedly mentioned the urgency of practice in different texts,he never provided any thematic discourse on it.In this paper,we begin with a phenomenological-sociological description of the urgency of practice from its original site,arising cause,occurrencemechanism and presence mode. We reveal the tripleconnotations that the urgency of practicecontains:the urgency of time,the urgency of necessity,and highest urgency as a non-urgent state. Secondly,by examining the experience of the urgency of practice in the context of modernity,we not only expound the triple implications of the practical urgency experience,which are:eventual experience, temporal experience and emotional experience; but also explore the possible effect on modern people's social disposition and mind habits. From the connotations of the urgency of practice,especially the implications of the practical urgency experience,this paper re-discovers and re-constructs the concept of the urgency of practice on the one hand,and reveals the theoretical possibilities of the concept in understanding and interpreting social life on the other hand. As to the other theoretical meanings that the concept of the urgency of practice may contain,we need to explore this more in the future.

Key words: practice, the urgency of practice, the experience of practical urgency