Global social fields can form from micro interactions without complex organization.

Evidence

The basic insight that motivates this undertaking and for which we will herein provide evidence is that global social forms—by which we mean fields of interaction that stretch across all time zones (or have the potential to do so)—need not imply further expansions of social complexity along the lines of highly differentiated organizations or complex social control and authority structures. Rather, the installation of global social forms that are not nationally bound would seem to be largely dependent on individuals and social microstructures. Perhaps it only becomes feasible at all in relation to such structures. To characterize these structures, we have introduced a distinction between embodied presence and response presence—that is, embodied presence corresponds to the face-to-face situation, while response presence corresponds to situations in which participants are capable of responding to one another and common objects in real time without being physically present in the same place. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 26

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces embodied presence vs. response presence as core conceptual tools for analyzing screen-based markets.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s trading ethnography in that response presence is the defining feature of screen-based trading—relates to Knorr Cetina’s interactional structuration of electronic markets. — connects to: Space is not freedom but permanent construction through contested social interactions; Microsocial interactions have risen to structural equivalence with macroscopic global phenomena. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 18; Global markets are assembled through microsocial patterns of relatedness and coordination — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 1086 (+1 more)

Related

• Response presence can sustain intersubjective social forms across global distances (similarity 0.91)
• Geographically dispersed but mutually oriented actors form global microstructures that bind markets together. (similarity 0.85)
• Trading screens transform distant markets into interactionally present scenes. (similarity 0.84)
• Global market interaction produces intersubjectivity beyond face-to-face encounters (similarity 0.84)
• Microsocial interactions have risen to structural equivalence with macroscopic global phenomena. (similarity 0.84)
• Global markets are assembled through microsocial patterns of relatedness and coordination (similarity 0.83)
• Markets combine distinct forms of coordination beyond network embeddedness, including reflexive temporal coordination. (similarity 0.82)
• Fieldwork on trading floors reveals the microstructural and knowledge-embedded basis of global trading systems. (similarity 0.82)
• Shared temporal structuring of a common object distinguishes global markets from ordinary electronic groups (similarity 0.82)
• Microsociology’s localism fails once interaction is disembedded from physical place. (similarity 0.81)
• Global markets form communities of time bound by a common observed screen object. (similarity 0.81)
• Geographically dispersed markets achieve social integration through time, not space (similarity 0.80)
• Screen-based reciprocal observation can generate intersubjectivity across geographic distance in markets. (similarity 0.80)
• Global traders form communities of time by observing a shared screen object (similarity 0.80)
• Screen content assembles a globally shared object traders can watch together (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Microsocial interactions have risen to structural equivalence with macroscopic global phenomena. #corroborates (0.92) — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 18
• Global markets are assembled through microsocial patterns of relatedness and coordination #corroborates (0.85) — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 1086
• Space is not freedom but permanent construction through contested social interactions #expands (0.75)