The Hysteresis Effect
Theorizing Mismatch in Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Strand (0000-0002-6820-5358, Brandeis University), Omar Lizardo (0000-0002-5405-3007, Department of Sociology University of Notre Dame 810 Flanner Hall Notre Dame IN 46556, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 164-194 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12117 |
| OpenAlex | W2504182858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
| References cited | 74 |
Widespread reliance on representationalist understandings commit social scientists to either partially or totally decouple belief from reality, limiting the domain of phenomena that can be treated by belief as an analytic concept. Developing the contrastive notion of practical belief, we introduce the hysteresis effect as a situational phenomenon involving the systematic production of agent‐environment mismatches and argue for its placement as a central problem for the theory of action. Revealing the dynamic, embodied conservation of belief in the temporality of practice, hysteresis appears when environmental contexts change in a way that leaves actors without an ontologically complicit relationship to institutions as scaffolds of action. Under these circumstances, a past‐inflected reflexiveness replaces a forward‐inflecting practical belief in the actor's temporal relation to the world. Drawing from a variety of historical case studies, we locate hysteresis in routine disjunctures between the temporality of practice and the temporality of environments. Our analysis reveals four distinct types of reflexiveness produced the hysteresis effect, each with a unique dispositional impact on actors and extensions to group‐level phenomena. We conclude the article by emphasizing the non‐eliminativist relationship between belief as disposition and belief as representation
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| Unique citing works | 68 |
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| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |