Social Interaction: Do Non‐humans Count?

Cerulo, Karen A.

doi:10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00404.x

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“…Research sites comprise interactions between myriad human and nonhuman actors, embedded in turn within broader socio-political networks. All actors—human and nonhuman—are active entities, worthy of consideration: They “matter” precisely because of their relationships with others (Latour 2007; see also Barad 2007; Cerulo 2011; Ingold 2008; Law and Mol 2002; Whatmore 2002). Such “relatings” can take the form of everything from a polite introduction between “two quasi-individuated beings” to complex patterns “more reminiscent of a cat’s cradle” (Haraway 2008:41).…”

Section: Overlapping Forms Of Domination: How Critical Theory Explainmentioning

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“…Research into these “new materialisms” is philosophically and methodologically diverse, but shares a common recognition that agency is not limited to human beings. Bruno Latour’s (2007) Actor Network Theory (ANT) is particularly influential, but researchers also draw on the work of Karen Barad (2007), Karen Cerulo (2009, 2011), Diana Coole and Samantha Frost (2010), Tim Ingold (2008), and Sarah Whatmore (2002) among others. ANT came out of Science and Technology Studies in the early 1980s, promising a way to rethink the social world and the place of people, animals, and other actors within it.…”

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Relations of Power and Nonhuman Agency: Critical Theory, Clever Hans, and Other Stories of Horses and Humans

Wadham

2020

Sociological Perspectives

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Critical Theory pioneered the theorization of human-animal relations, helping establish that agency extends beyond the human world. Nonhuman agency is now widely accepted within the “new materialisms” and beyond but there are growing calls for more critical approaches that consider why and how such agency is mobilized. These calls effectively bring together the concerns of “old” and “new” materialisms. I therefore return to Critical Theory, bringing its explanatory analysis, practical framework and future imaginary into conversation with more recent research into nonhuman agency. Together, they reveal how the relations between human and nonhuman actors shape and are shaped by their broader socio-political context. I suggest that paying closer attention to human-domestic animal relations in particular might help us resolve some of the issues at stake. Consequently, for illustrations to extend the analysis, the article turns to horses, a nonhuman group who occupy a unique place in our collective unconscious.

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Relations of Power and Nonhuman Agency: Critical Theory, Clever Hans, and Other Stories of Horses and Humans

Wadham

2020

Sociological Perspectives

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“…Direct interactions with products are typically conceptualized as physical and outside the study of social interactions; however, contemporary research in sociology has a renewed interest in social interaction with nonhumans including consumer products (Cerulo , ). Actor‐network theorists (Latour ; Law and Hassard ) provocatively argue that social interaction can occur with any object, they call an actant, or set of objects, they call an actor‐network, that can cause another actant to respond.…”

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Symbolic Interaction with Consumer Products: An Affect Control Theory Approach

Shank

Lulham

2016

Sociology Compass

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Symbolic interactionism is one of the few social psychology perspectives that recognizes the important role of physical artifacts, including consumer products, in social life. Consumer products are artifacts people can use to maintain the expressive order within social life – the order that is embedded within the shared meanings of a culture. As a formal theory of symbolic interactionism, affect control theory emphasizes culturally shared affective meaning, the impressions produced within social events, and identity processes that rely on those cultural meanings and social events. We contend that affect control theory provides a framework for understanding and researching how consumer products influence people's social experience and interaction. First, we specifically explore how affect control theory's concepts of affective meaning, identity modification, and impression management can be applied to understanding consumer products. Building on this foundation, we then consider how affect control theory might also contribute to three new research directions: social interaction with consumer products, affective design of consumer products, and the prosumer identity created from consumer products. Our conclusion is that affect control theory provides sociologists with a means of exploring the important and fascinating questions that emerge when we consider people's symbolic interaction with consumer products.

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“…However, emerging critical perspectives on IRT present significant challenges to, and opportunities for, police sociology. In particular, this work problematizes two key assumptions about interaction encounters: that they require physical co-presence of participants to the encounter; and, that those participants must necessarily be human (Cerulo 2011, Campos-Castillo and Hitlin 2013, DiMaggio et al 2019. Interaction with systems, electronic communications, and digital environments are providing perhaps the most tangible contemporary examples of where these assumptions are falling down.…”

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Interaction rituals and ‘police’ encounters: new challenges for interactionist police sociology

Henry

2020

Policing and Society

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Interactionist police sociology is in need of revision and extension in the face of profound change in policing, society, and in the very nature of 'interaction'. The argument draws upon interaction ritual theory, a microsociological perspective that explores social life, and feelings of belonging and solidarity, as outcomes of encounters between people. Two tenets of the theorythat successful encounters produce emotional energy that creates bonds of solidarity, and that they require physical co-presence of human participants to work in this wayare being revised in the light of new empirical work exploring interaction with 'others' in a variety of new forms. The effect of this work is to provoke reassessment of what 'counts' as an encounter and to question the nature and sources of solidarity in an age when face-to-face physical co-presence is in decline. These features of interaction ritual theory are developed through three purposively-selected, illustrative applications of it to policing: police as reproducers of order; policing as information brokering; and, the changing landscape of security encounters. The article opens up new questions and objects of study for interactionist police research that are fit for the empirical realities of contemporary policing.

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Social Interaction: Do Non‐humans Count?

Cited by 13 publications

References 108 publications

Relations of Power and Nonhuman Agency: Critical Theory, Clever Hans, and Other Stories of Horses and Humans

Relations of Power and Nonhuman Agency: Critical Theory, Clever Hans, and Other Stories of Horses and Humans

Symbolic Interaction with Consumer Products: An Affect Control Theory Approach

Interaction rituals and ‘police’ encounters: new challenges for interactionist police sociology

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