Contrasting Social Entities with Social Praxes: A Methodological Enquiry
6 Pages Posted: 28 Nov 2012
Date Written: November 28, 2012
Abstract
Human social life can be understood in many ways. It can be approached in terms of essences, identities, subjects, subjectivations, impressions, social facts, phenomenon, cause & effects, structures, class relations, categories, fragments, networks, functions, social action, processes, narratives, interactions, conflicts, conspiracies, memories, habitats, praxes and so on. One way of understanding the social is through processes, events, praxis, hiatus, ruptures and transitions. The other way is to understand it in terms of cultural, social, political or economic categories. The approaches understand social through processes is explained as praxis approach and the other is called entity approach in this paper. Of these two, entities approach is the oldest and most popular.
Keywords: entity, identity, meshwork, network, praxis, virtual
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