Sociality with Objects: Social Relations in Postsocial Knowledge Societies
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L'A. s'efforce d'envisager la nature de la «socialite» et des relations sociales au sein des societes contemporaines marquees par des processus d'individualisation. Il se demande ce que signifie la notion d'individualisation, analyse les processus de transition post-sociale et met en lumiere certains phenomenes de «desocialisation». Il considere que les societes contemporaines vont voir emerger certains elements culturels tels l'expertise ou le savoir qui vont jouer un role de plus en plus important dans leur organisation. Il estime que les «relations d'objet» vont tendre a devenir de plus en plus constitutives des relations sociales. Il s'efforce de definir et de caracteriser les specificites d'une socialite centree sur l'objet et met en exergue les notions de mutualite et de solidarite dans ce cadre
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With individualization, late modern social relations have shifted to ones increasingly mediated by objects, not to desocialization.
“KnorrCetina argues that with individualization we have not experienced a 'desocialization', but a shift in late modern social relations to ones that are increasingly sifted through, or mediated, by objects.”
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- Authors
- Cetina, K. K.
- Corresponding author
- Cetina, Karin Knorr
- Venue
- Theory, Culture & Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1997-11
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1-30
- ISSN
- 0263-2764 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-3616
- OpenAlex
- W1971079539
- Cited by
- 986
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 188.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Theory Culture & Society (publishedVersion)
- KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Keywords
- sociality, objects, material culture, human-object relationship
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