Thinking Through Sociality

An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-813-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 323 g

As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has never been greater. Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues, locales, situations and domains. In this book, an international group of contributors train attention on the concepts of disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network, mid-range concepts that are “good to think with.” Neither too narrowly defined nor too sweeping, these concepts can be used to think through a myriad of ethnographic situations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amit, Vered

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction:Thinking through Sociality: The Importance of Mid-Level Concepts

Vered Amit with Sally Anderson, Virginia Caputo, John Postill, Deborah Reed-Danahay, and Gabriela Vargas-Cetina

Chapter 1. Disjuncture: The Creativity of, and Breaks in, Everyday Associations and Routines

Vered Amit

Chapter 2. Fields: Dynamic Configurations of Practices, Games and Socialities

John Postill

Chapter 3. Social Space: Distance, Proximity, and Thresholds of Affinity

Deborah Reed-Danahay

Chapter 4. Sociability: The Art of Form

Sally Anderson

Chapter 5. Organizations: From Corporations to Ephemeral Associations

Gabriela Vargas-Cetina

Chapter 6. Network: The Possibilities and Mobilizations of Connections

Vered Amit and Virginia Caputo

Epilogue: Sociality and Uncertainty: Between Avowing and Disavowing Concepts in Anthropology

Nigel Rapport

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Amit, Vered
Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. She is the author or editor of 13 books including Young Men in Uncertain Times (Berghahn, co-edited with Noel Dyck) and Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Pluto, co-authored with Nigel Rapport).

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. She is the author or editor of 13 books including Young Men in Uncertain Times (Berghahn, co-edited with Noel Dyck) and Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Pluto, co-authored with Nigel Rapport).