Open AccessInstitutional social engagement
Author(s) -
Snježana Prijić Samaržija
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1602429p
Subject(s) - sociology , value (mathematics) , public engagement , social reality , collective action , action (physics) , social engagement , social order , epistemology , order (exchange) , social psychology , public relations , political science , social science , psychology , politics , law , philosophy , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , machine learning , computer science , economics
I am referring to social engagement as a value-based choice to actively intervene in social reality in order to modify existing collective identities and social practices with the goal of realizing the public good. The very term ‘engagement’, necessarily involves the starting awareness of a social deficit or flaw and presupposes a critical attitude towards social reality. In this article, I will attempt to provide arguments in favour of the thesis about the possibility (and, later, necessity) of institutional engagement, critical action and even institutional protest, basing this view on the thesis that institutions are fundamentally collective or social agents whose actions must be guided by ethical and epistemic virtues