Slowing Down Society? Theoretical Reflections on Social Deceleration in Pandemic Times (and Beyond)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21750331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frédéric Torrès (0000-0003-3272-3660, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Felipe Torres (Assistant Professor, Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Chile), Alexis Gros (0000-0001-5260-0698, Centro Científico Tecnológico - San Juan) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-29 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | KronoScope (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1567-715X • E-ISSN: 1568-5241 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685241-20221505 |
| OpenAlex | W4285094581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 38 |
The COVID -19 pandemic has caused a major change in everyday life and also reinvigorated the theoretical and political discussion on the temporal rhythms of social existence. Taking the situation of the coronavirus crisis as a starting point, the present paper attempts to provide the outlines of a theoretical account of social deceleration, a topic that has been hitherto barely explored in the field of social studies of time. In view of the complexity of the phenomenon, a distinction is made between two ways of theoretically approaching it, namely, a descriptive and a normative perspective. The paper proceeds in three steps: First, upon adopting a descriptive perspective, it advances a definition of social deceleration and proposes a typology of its different manifestations. The second step analyzes the coronavirus crisis as a process of partial deceleration of social life. The final step gives an overview of the current normative, i.e., ethical-political, disputes over social speed
Economics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Normative · Pandemic · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Typology · Computer Science · Humanities and Social Sciences · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Pressed for Time
Accelerating Academia
Critique of Information
Modernity at large
Subjective Passage of Time during the Pandemic
Traducir "Beschleunigung" en tiempos de aceleración
Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism
Snap to Grid
No Speed Limit
Resonanz. Eine Soziologie der Weltbeziehung
Sociology Beyond Societies
Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity
In the Meantime
Die Corona-Pandemie – eine Katastrophe mit Sprengkraft
Pfadabhängigkeit, Bifurkationspunkte und die Rolle der Soziologie. Ein soziologischer Deutungsversuch der Corona-Krise
Soziologie – Corona – Kritik
Sediments of Time
Soziologische Theorien
Speed up or slow down? Social theory in the information age
Empires of Speed
The Culture of Speed
Risk society
Social Theory and Social Structure
Architecture in the Anthropocene
Social Acceleration
Slowing down modernity
A secular acceleration
The Condition of Postmodernity
Appropriation, Activation and Acceleration
Critique of Accelerationism
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |