soci/anth material culture week 3: social theory
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Week 3 — Social TheorySOCI/ANTH 441 Material CultureAlexandre EnkerliSeptember 17, 2008
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Today
•Project talk▫Logistics▫Work with Objects
•Themes in material culture•Theory Tasters
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Project Logistics
•Part I due October 1•Can do “prewrite” by September 24•Find thing•Start work on
• Description• Literature
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What is it?
•What is it called?•What is it made of?•How are intrinsic elements integrated?•What is it related to?•What is its history?•What is its future?
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What does it do?
•What are its effects on the world?▫Material, physical, biological effects▫Psychological, emotional effects▫Social effects
•How does it function?▫Relationship between parts▫Intended uses▫Unintended uses
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What does it mean?
•To subject•In group•In cultural context
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Diachrony
•History•Story•Genealogy•Biography•Transformation•Shaping•Dynamic
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Ethnography
•Cultural diversity•Tradition•Purity•Trash•Representation
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Daily Life
•Public/private dichotomy•Domesticity•Use of objects•Ritualization•Sacred/profane
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Marxian
•Means of Production•Consumption•Globalization•Commodification•Materialism•Environmentalism•Gift economy
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Status and Inequality
•Gender•Age•Class•Ethnicity
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Theories
•Not stuck on detail•Named or not•Material culture classics•Adapt frameworks•All related
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ANT and SI
•Constructivism (non-essentialism)•Post-modernism and post-structuralism•Architecture•Human+Non-human•Agency
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Latour Themes
•Human/non-human agency•Objectification of human agency•Unreliability of object/humans•Function of object and absence of object•Non-human relation to human relations•Subscribing (and style)
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Latour Terms
•Scene (people and things)•Delegation (give over)•Prescription (order for action: goal and
modification)•Subscription (conform)•De-inscription (deviate)•Obligatory Passage Point (what has to
occur)•Pre-inscription (everything upstream)
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ANT Links
•http://www.istheory.yorku.ca/actornetworktheory.htm
•http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/ant_dff.html
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor-network_theory
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Smith & Bugni Themes
•Places representing people/identities•Expressing self•Reflects/influences•Efficiency•Protecting from over-stimulation•Proximity and urban space (iPod
software)•Intrinsic meaning or possibilities•Sensory dimensions
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Lip-Service
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Tech World
•Forced adoption•Luddites•Losing jobs to robots•Marrying robots in 50 years?•Technological singularity
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Science Culture
•Geek culture•AI
• Hello world• Turing
•Biological machines•Nanotech•Science-Fiction
• Genuine People Personalities (HHGttG)
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Next Week
•Domesticity and Gender•Private life and social inequality•Places and objects