Engagement is not synonymous with commitment, even though both words are used in translations between English, French, and German. However, engagement is also not some supplementary phenomenon or a technical term that the phrase social acts already includes in itself or that the concepts of ‘commitment’ or ‘joint commitment’ somehow necessarily imply. In this article I would like to describe a special kind of social act and determine the function they have in relation between various agents. Most importantly, I would like to define their significance in the transformation of a group into an institution or higher order entity. My premise is that there are acts whose aim is to engage all others, since they refer to all of us together, and in so doing reduce negative (social) “acts” as well as various asocial behaviors within a group or institution. In this sense, engaged acts could alternatively also belong to a kind of institutional act, since they introduce certain adjustments to the i...nstitution, changing or modifying its rules, increasing its consistency and efficiency.
Keywords:
Institution / Engagement / Commitment / Social act / Negative social act
Source:
Institutions in Action. The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World, 2020, 12, 37-51
Publisher:
Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Note:
First book series in Philosophy of the Social Sciences that specifically focuses on Philosophy of Sociality and Social Ontology.
Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality
Volume 12
TY - CHAP
AU - Bojanić, Petar
PY - 2020
UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2060
AB - Engagement is not synonymous with commitment, even though both words are used in translations between English, French, and German. However, engagement is also not some supplementary phenomenon or a technical term that the phrase social acts already includes in itself or that the concepts of ‘commitment’ or ‘joint commitment’ somehow necessarily imply. In this article I would like to describe a special kind of social act and determine the function they have in relation between various agents. Most importantly, I would like to define their significance in the transformation of a group into an institution or higher order entity. My premise is that there are acts whose aim is to engage all others, since they refer to all of us together, and in so doing reduce negative (social) “acts” as well as various asocial behaviors within a group or institution. In this sense, engaged acts could alternatively also belong to a kind of institutional act, since they introduce certain adjustments to the institution, changing or modifying its rules, increasing its consistency and efficiency.
PB - Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
T2 - Institutions in Action. The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World
T1 - What Is an Act of Engagement? Between the Social, Collegial and Institutional Protocols
VL - 12
SP - 37
EP - 51
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-32618-0_4
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Bojanić, P.. (2020). What Is an Act of Engagement? Between the Social, Collegial and Institutional Protocols. in Institutions in Action. The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World
Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 12, 37-51.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32618-0_4
Bojanić P. What Is an Act of Engagement? Between the Social, Collegial and Institutional Protocols. in Institutions in Action. The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World. 2020;12:37-51.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32618-0_4 .
Bojanić, Petar, "What Is an Act of Engagement? Between the Social, Collegial and Institutional Protocols" in Institutions in Action. The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World, 12 (2020):37-51,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32618-0_4 . .
