Voice Lessons: Tempered Radicalism and the Use of Voice and Silence*
探讨温和激进主义背景下声音和沉默的本体论，通过男女同性恋新教牧师的职业经历，揭示声音和沉默在组织中的运用机制，包括话语背景、模糊性以及自我授权作为制度变革动力的作用。
ABSTRACT This article explores the ontology of voice and silence in the context of tempered radicalism. The career experiences of gay and lesbian Protestant ministers illuminate key issues for understanding voice and silence in organizations. First, social actors’ discursive context provides genres and plots for the construction of self‐hood that shape their use of voice and silence. Second, voice and silence are ambiguous, intertwined phenomena. When you are saying one thing, you are not saying another. Third, self‐authorization – a form of institutional change agency – legitimates action that falls outside institutional norms for authorized resistance, while framing these actions as enactments of institutional values and beliefs.