What is society?Society emerges from relationshipsSociety emerges from relationships
Understanding society is understanding relationships. Relationships consist of particular entities and at the same time are processes in which such entities are interacting with one another in particular ways. Variance vs. Process | Causation vs. Description Social science becomes significant when relevant for many people. The most appealing is to present predictions of the future because everyone anticipates hopefully better future. For descriptive explanation, plausibility as well as accuracy is the key. Generative moment | Knowing autonomy as well as constraints Awareness of power Awareness of moral concerns Awareness of turn-by-turn occurrences of actions (acting - observing, uttering - hearing, authoring - reading) Relational viewA Triadic Model
Relationships are to be examined as triads rather than dyads or dichotomies. The world of Objects | The world we believe we see Conventional scientific methods The world of Practice | Relationships with other actors A variety of institutions, culture |
The world of Self | We never see ourselves
The truest self exists at the moment of the act of narration Alternate successions between acting and observing Meanings are emerging out of particular relationships. Disposing oneself by means of repetitive actions, of which bases are involuntary mimicking a variety of encounters, i.e., environments, objects and other actors Entanglement | Nesting and nested structuresMateriality, affordance
The impossibility of mathematical recursion | All events are unique. Tolerance about letting the unknown remain unknown
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