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Beyond global modernity, global consciousness and global governmentality: The symmetrical anthropology of globalization
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The symmetrical anthropology of globalization is proposed in this paper, where the authors combine the research strategies developed by Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann to problematize how we interpret the world when discussing globalization.Abstract:
The article combines the research strategies developed by Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann to problematize how we interpret the world when discussing globalization. Two previous approaches – global modernity and global consciousness – interpret the world as completely objective (nature transcends culture). Another approach – global governmentality – interprets the world as completely subjective (culture transcends nature). Against these approaches, this article proposes a new one: the symmetrical anthropology (or sociology) of globalization. Inspired by Latour’s variable ontologies, it considers multiple descriptions of the world and multiple descriptions of society simultaneously. It considers globalization as one description of society and searches for the description of the world corresponding to it. It distinguishes three descriptions of the world: (1) the world as natural order; (2) the world as external object; and (3) the world as levels of organization. It is argued that the description of the worl...read more
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Metric and Nonmetric in Weber and Durkheim
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