Operationalizing everyday life
the PSDD scale and configurational analysis of practices of power, knowledge, desire, and discourse in families with an incarcerated parent
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https://doi.org/10.66778/CS.v14n40.11Keywords:
everyday practices, power, knowledge, desire and discourse, complexity thinking, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), family dynamics, incarcerationAbstract
Pedro Sotolongo developed a theory of everyday life in which patterns of social interaction are woven from practices of power, knowledge, desire and discourse (PSDD, after its Spanish initials). Its high level of abstraction has limited its empirical testing. This article presents an effort to operationalize that framework: the construction of a self-assessment scale of everyday PSDD practices, articulated with the FACES III scale (Olson’s circumplex model) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), within a design consistent with the complexity paradigm. The proposal is demonstrated in a limit case (the “bifurcation” of family dynamics produced by the incarceration of a parent) drawing on 19 cases from the Najayo Men’s and Najayo Women’s correctional centers (Dominican Republic). The configurational analysis shows that balanced family functionality emerges only when favorable shares of knowledge, desire and discourse coincide, combined with power or with a high PSDD score, and it reveals an increase in parents’ reflectivity following imprisonment. The article discusses the value of the instrument as a means of rendering Sotolongian everyday life empirically researchable
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