This chapter discusses the constitution of the social as a relational network. We propose to understand social relationships as embedded and consequential relationships. Through a pragmatic approach to assigning descriptors and thereby constituting them, we reject the idea of essentialist interpretations of social categories. The introduction of the concepts of domestication and digitization proves the points by showing that social categories have been expanded to include animals, and that physical presence is not required anymore for social relationships.

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The Social Dimension

  • Hendrik Kempt

摘要

This chapter discusses the constitution of the social as a relational network. We propose to understand social relationships as embedded and consequential relationships. Through a pragmatic approach to assigning descriptors and thereby constituting them, we reject the idea of essentialist interpretations of social categories. The introduction of the concepts of domestication and digitization proves the points by showing that social categories have been expanded to include animals, and that physical presence is not required anymore for social relationships.