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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2272</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8897</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumamba</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">35238</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2272-2023-23-2-389-403</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">XSDHTJ</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Reviews and Essays</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Рецензии и эссе</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The role of silence in the production of social order in meditation (on the example of vipassana)</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Роль молчания в производстве социального порядка медитации (на примере випассаны)</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Spirkina</surname><given-names>A. K.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Спиркина</surname><given-names>Анастасия Константиновна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">старший лаборант Института социологии Федерального научно-исследовательского социологического центра Российской академии наук; аспирант и преподаватель социологического факультета Государственного академического университета гуманитарных наук</bio><email>spirkina.ak@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Sociology of FCTAS RAS</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт социологии ФНИСЦ РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">State Academic University for the Humanities</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Государственный академический университет гуманитарных наук</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-06-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>06</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>23</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 23, NO2 (2023)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 23, №2 (2023)</issue-title><fpage>389</fpage><lpage>403</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-07-05"><day>05</day><month>07</month><year>2023</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Spirkina A.K.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2023, Спиркина А.К.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Spirkina A.K.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Спиркина А.К.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/35238">https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/35238</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The article considers silence as the most important component of vipassana (meditation technique from early Buddhism) as it is taught in the tradition of S.N. Goenka. As a religious vow, silence is a condition for the successful meditation retreat. Although meditative silence does not seem to form sociality, vipassana courses are a collective practice. After the end of courses, the desire of people to meet and meditate together proves the need not in a ‘solitary’ silence but in a group that produces special collective silence. The author considers the silent co-presence of people in the meditation center ‘here-and-now’ as a special interactive situation, a social feature of the meditation practice, and shows how the subjective success of this interaction and its methods depend on the technical and spatial conditions of the meditative center. The empirical basis of the article is mainly the author’s participant observation (in the role of a new student). Based on the concepts of sociology of everyday life, the author describes the key mechanisms of the production of sociality in various situations of joint forced silence during the vipassana course - from collective meditation in the common room to the silent organization of joint activities in the meditation center. By partially reproducing the basic social conditions of the center at home - silence and the support of those around them - meditators manage to ensure the continuity of the practice and to successfully integrate it into their daily lives outside the meditation center.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Статья посвящена молчанию как важнейшей составляющей курса випассаны (техники медитации из раннего буддизма) - в той форме, как ее преподают по всему миру в традиции С.Н. Гоенки. Принятое как религиозный обет молчание выступает условием успешного прохождения медитативного ретрита. Хотя медитативное молчание, на первый взгляд, не порождает социальность, курсы випассаны - практика коллективная. Желание людей даже после окончания курсов собираться и медитировать вместе говорит о потребности не в «уединенной» тишине, а в группе, производящей особый феномен коллективного молчания. Этот специфически социальный аспект медитационной практики, молчаливое соприсутствие людей, наблюдаемое в центре медитации здесь-и-сейчас, рассматривается в статье как особая интерактивная ситуация. Показано, каким образом субъективная успешность данного взаимодействия и его способы связаны с техническими и пространственными условиями медитационного центра. Эмпирический материал статьи - это преимущественно результаты включенного наблюдения автора (в роли «студента-новичка»). Используя концептуальный аппарат социологии повседневности, автор рассматривает ключевые механизмы производства социальности в различных ситуациях совместного вынужденного молчания, возникающих на курсе випассаны - от коллективной медитации в общем зале до молчаливой организации совместного быта в центре медитации. Частично воспроизводя ключевые социальные условия центра после окончания курса - тишину и поддержку окружающих, медитирующие поддерживают непрерывность практики и встраивают ее в свою повседневную жизнь за пределами медитационного центра.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>silence</kwd><kwd>vipassana</kwd><kwd>meditation</kwd><kwd>social practice</kwd><kwd>functions of silence</kwd><kwd>sociology of everyday life</kwd><kwd>microsociology of space</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>молчание</kwd><kwd>випассана</kwd><kwd>медитация</kwd><kwd>социальная практика</kwd><kwd>функции молчания</kwd><kwd>социология повседневности</kwd><kwd>микросоциология пространства</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Kazakova T.A. 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