EAN: 9781509542970

SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY FOR DIGITAL SOCIETY - ORI S...

The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life - it also
shakes sociological theory  transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In
this timely book  Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges digitalization poses to different
strands of sociological theory and offers paths to adapt them to new social realities. What
would symbolic interactionism look like in a world where interaction no longer takes place
within bounded situations and is constantly documented as durable digital objects? How should
we understand new digitally mediated forms of human association that bind our actions and lives
together but have little in common with old-time 'collectives'  and why are they not simply
'social networks'? How does social capital transform when it is materialized in a digital form
and how does it remould power structures? What happens to our conceptualization of power when
faced with the emergence of new forms of algorithmic power? And what happens when labour
departs from work? By posing and answering such fascinating questions  and offering critical
tools for both students and scholars of social theory and digital society to engage with them 
this thought-provoking book draws the outline of future sociological theory for our digital
society.

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