Object Relations in Accounts of Everyday Life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2322693
AutoresJenny Rinkinen (0000-0002-0160-6886, Aalto University School of Business, Finland, autor de correspondencia), Mikko Jalas (0000-0002-1653-2437, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland), Elizabeth Shove (0000-0002-4792-5479, Lancaster University)
Año2015
Volumen49
Número5
Páginas870-885
Fecha de publicación2015-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038515577910
OpenAlexW2181055448
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas35
Referencias citadas45

Theories of social practice routinely acknowledge the significance of the material world, arguing that objects have a constitutive role in shaping and reproducing the practices of which daily life is made. Objects are also important for those who approach 'everyday life' as an ontology, a tradition in which scholarly interest in the material reaches beyond the somewhat pragmatic concerns of practice theory. In this article we identify traces of both schools of thought in the ways in which people describe their immediate material environments. By drawing on an archive of diary material, we illustrate multi-faceted object relations with reference to the example of keeping warm. We conclude that in keeping warm, diarists weave together encounters, tactics and judgements, encountering objects in ways that extend beyond the 'mere' enactment of social practice. In analysing these encounters we explore ways of conceptualising the object-world that are especially relevant for studies of everyday life

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Ontology · Social life · Social ontology · Social practice · Social science · Sociology · History · Management and Organizational Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics