Materiality and Social Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7102001 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theodore R Schatzki (0000-0001-5200-8774, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-149 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1558-6073 • E-ISSN: 1558-5468 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/nc.2010.050202 |
| OpenAlex | W2050583860 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 179 |
An important issue in contemporary social theory is how social thought can systematically take materiality into account. This article suggests that one way social theory can do so is by working with an ontology that treats materiality as part of society. The article presents one such ontology, according to which social phenomena consist in nexuses of human practices and material arrangements. This ontology (1) recognizes three ways materiality is part of social phenomena, (2) holds that most social phenomena are intercalated constellations of practices, technology, and materiality, and (3) opens up consideration of relations between practices and material arrangements. A brief practice-material history of the Kentucky Bluegrass region where the author resides illustrates the idea that social phenomena evince changing material configurations over time
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Materiality (auditing · Ontology · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy
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Needful Structures
Bundles of risk perception and the commercial determinants of health
Musical Mobilities
Socio-Digital Co-Design Practices
Praxistheorien und Religionswissenschaft
Automation, Smart Homes and Symmetrical Anthropology
How Software Matters
Automated Artefacts as Co-performers of Social Practices
Seeing Wood for the Trees
Embodying Practices
Sustainable Practices
Soziologie der Privatheit
Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood
Expanding the understanding of rebound effects through practice theory
Practice Theories
Physical Products and Their Digital Representations
Co-producing the science–policy interface
“He's opening everybody's heart up”
A Sociology of Artefacts in Academic Practice
Listed Buildings as Socio-material Hybrids
The materiality key
Assessing the impact of translation guidelines in Wikipedia
A missing element in the practice of digital farming
Zur Materialität alltäglicher Übergänge. Eine institutionalisierungsanalytische Perspektive auf die Herstellung von Übergängen im (pädagogischen) Alltag der Kindertagesstätte
Socjomaterialność technologii komunikacyjnych w codziennych praktykach społecznych
Technology-driven changes in the UK legal translation market
Liminality and the beginning teacher
Spatio-temporal relationships between street vendors and City users
Coming to practice differently in the workplace
Translingual practices and national identity mediated in the semiotized digital spaces
Commuting by car to Brussels
Social life and the material world
‘Dynamic’ Non-human Animals in Theories of Practice
Umweltsoziologie und der praxistheoretische Zugang
Dynamic Bodies in Theories of Social Practice
Dynamic Non-humans in a Changing World
Robots and Roomba Riders
Integrierte Forschung – ein ethnographisches Angebot zur Ko-Laboration
Immersed in Thermal Flows
Praxistheorie als Kultursoziologie
Alltägliche Nachhaltigkeit. Zur Innovativität von Praktiken
Conceptualising Demand
Praxistheorie
Die Instabilität der Praxis
A Sociomaterial Account of Partnership, Signatures and Accountability in Practice
Bringing the Body into Environmental Behavior
Turning things around
“We don't have other options”
How environmental values take shape
Articulating the social forces of urban assemblages
What the camera does
Intensive Geographien – die Versorgung von extremen Frühgeburten in Deutschland aus praxistheoretischer Perspektive
Connectionwork
Contours of an urban architectural anthropology
Landscapes of memory
The role of flowers in the personalization of Christian funerals in Denmark
More-than-human practices in wild animal farming
Practices in transitions
Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life
Economic Inequality and Household Energy Consumption in High-income Countries
Rebound Effects in Practice
Transforming market–nature relations through an investigative practice
Digital technologies, closeness, and practices of being together in the context of the new normal in Serbia
Mundane normativity and the everyday handling of contested food consumption
Understanding interrelated practices and their climate-related consequences
Promoting neighbourhood sharing
Adapting owner-occupied dwellings in the UK
Ventilation regulations and occupant practices
Promoting practices of sufficiency
Urban densification and social capital
E-bike as a technological innovation system in China
Disposable but indispensable
Conceptualizing social-ecological practices
Natural waste
Environmental destruction as (objectively) uneventful and (subjectively) irrelevant
Change Ahead—Emerging Life-Course Transitions as Practical Accomplishments of Growing Old(er)
How the diesel engine became a “dirty” actant
Is it a match? Smart home energy management technologies and user comfort practices in German multi-apartment buildings
Quantitative analysis of everyday temporality
Bathing in Japan
Socially constructed or physiologically informed? Placing humans at the core of understanding cooling needs
How does air conditioning become ‘needed’? A case study of routes, rationales and dynamics
Schatzkian practice theory and energy consumption research
User learning and emerging practices in relation to innovative technologies
From technical innovations towards social practices and socio-technical transition? Re-thinking the transition to decentralised solar PV electrification in Africa
Humans and stuff
The nexus of gendered practices, energy, and space use
The rebound effect and Schatzki’s social theory
Gendered homes in theories of practice
Smart energy technologies for the collective
The computer is never turned off”
Man caves, granny flats and alternative living spaces
The uptake and diffusion of solar power in Africa
Reconsidering the gender-energy nexus
Understanding the timing of energy demand through time use data
Riskscapes, politics of scaling and climate change
Mediated by the materiality of spaces
The Intersection of ‘Outside’ Practices and Children’s Sedentary Behavior at Home
| Unique citing works | 179 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,53 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 173 |