The Market as an Object of Attachment:

http://www.cjsonline.ca/articles/knorr.html

The Market as an Object of Attachment: Exploring Postsocial Relations in Financial Markets1 Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger Canadian Journal of Sociology 25, 2 (2000): 141-168. Abstract: This paper rests on the assumption of an increased presence and relevance of object worlds in the social world. It holds that this influx of object worlds coincides with changing patterns of human relatedness that can be glossed by the notion postsocial forms. Postsocial forms include object-relation…

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Les épistémès de la société :

http://www.erudit.org/revue/socsoc/1998/v3...

Les epistemes de la societe : l`™enclavement du savoir dans les structures sociales Comme l`™ont soulignes beaucoup de specialistes des sciences sociales, au coeur de l`™experience sociale de cette fin du XXe siecle predomine le sentiment que la societe est en voie de se reorganiser (Jameson 1991 ; Giddens, 1994b). Nous ne nous contentons plus d`avancer simplement vers la nouvelle phase de developpement social promise et decrite par le socialisme. Nous sommes plutot, dit-on, en proi…

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Why some social network serv...or object-centered sociality

http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2005/04/why...

Basically I`m defending an alternative approach to social networks here, which I call `object centered sociality` following the sociologist Karin Knorr Cetina. I`ll try to articulate the conceptual difference between the two approaches and briefly demonstrate that object-centered sociality helps us to understand better why some social networking services succeed while others don`t.

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Object centered sociality

http://charlie.dgrc.crc.ca/cgi-bin/Sylvie/...

Title: Object centered sociality Category: Social issues Jyri Engestr�om explains the theory of `object centered sociality`, from sociologist Karin Knorr Cetina (who might be at this university or this university or even this university). Basically, the idea is that people group together around a shared object, whether it be family, job, or some common activity such as birdwatching. Social software that is based around sharing such objects (like photos in Flickr) will always be more …

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