Microsocial interactions have risen to structural equivalence with macroscopic global phenomena.

Evidence

We argue that features of the interaction order, loosely defined, have become constitutive of and implanted in processes that have global breadth; microsocial structures and relationships are what instantiate some of the most globally extended domains—for example, global financial markets. In the last few decades, we have witnessed a rise to structural equivalence of what Goffman called the interaction order and macrosocial phenomena. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 18

What we suggest in this article is that fields in which participants, although geographically distant, are oriented, above all, toward one another and, at the same time, disengaged from local settings are spanned and bound together by global microstructures—that is, patterns of relatedness and coordination that are global in scope but microsocial in character and that assemble and link global domains. We argue that features of the interaction order, loosely defined, have become constitutive of and implanted in processes that have global breadth; microsocial structures and relationships are what instantiate some of the most globally extended domains—for example, global financial markets. In the last few decades, we have witnessed a rise to structural equivalence of what Goffman called the interaction order and macrosocial phenomena. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 18

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that micro-interactions are constitutive OF global domains, not merely embedded in them, inverts the usual macro-to-micro causal story in sociology.
• XREF: Directly engages Goffman’s interaction order, Giddens’ disembedding, and Collins’ macrosociology. — connects to: Geographically dispersed but mutually oriented actors form global microstructures that bind markets together. — 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; Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 18

Related

• Geographically dispersed but mutually oriented actors form global microstructures that bind markets together. (similarity 0.90)
• Global markets are assembled through microsocial patterns of relatedness and coordination (similarity 0.87)
• Microsociology’s localism fails once interaction is disembedded from physical place. (similarity 0.84)
• Global social fields can form from micro interactions without complex organization. (similarity 0.84)
• Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface (similarity 0.81)
• Financial markets show the most intricate response-presence-based global integration (similarity 0.81)
• Markets operate as processual social systems shaped by trader practice, knowledge, and globality (similarity 0.81)
• Fieldwork on trading floors reveals the microstructural and knowledge-embedded basis of global trading systems. (similarity 0.80)
• Markets combine distinct forms of coordination beyond network embeddedness, including reflexive temporal coordination. (similarity 0.79)
• Response presence can sustain intersubjective social forms across global distances (similarity 0.78)
• Global market interaction produces intersubjectivity beyond face-to-face encounters (similarity 0.78)
• Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Global markets are assembled through microsocial patterns of relatedness and coordination #corroborates (0.88) — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 1086
• Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166