Social Change in a Material World

Theodore R. Schatzki (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-14452-4 (ISBN)

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This book offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of significant differences in bundles of practices and material arrangements.

Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author’s earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of significant differences in bundles of practices and material arrangements. Illustrated with examples from the history of bourbon distillation and the formation and evolution of digitally-mediated associations in contemporary life, the book argues that chains of activity combine with material events and processes to cause social changes. The book thereby stresses the significance of the material dimension of society for the constitution, determination, and explanation of social phenomena, as well as the types of space needed to understand them. The book also challenges the explanatory significance of such key phenomena as power, dependence, relations, mechanisms, and individual behavior. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, geographers, organization studies scholars, and others interested in social life and social change.

Theodore R. Schatzki is Professor of Geography, and of Philosophy and Sociology, at the University of Kentucky, USA. He is the author of Social Practices, The Site of the Social, Martin Heidegger: Theorist of Space, and The Timespace of Human Activity. He is also co-editor of, among other works, The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, The Nexus of Practices, and Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory.

1. On Changes, Events, and Processes

2. The Practice Plenum

3.The Material Dimension of Social Life

4. Social Dynamics I: Chains of Activity

5. Social Dynamics II: Material Events and Processes

6. Explaining Social Changes

7. Dealing with Complexity: Overviews

8. Challenging Social Theoretical Stalwarts

Erscheinungsdatum	23.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-367-14452-2 / 0367144522
ISBN-13	978-0-367-14452-4 / 9780367144524
Zustand	Neuware