Microsociology’s localism fails once interaction is disembedded from physical place.

Evidence

The assumptions that have characterized much microsociological thinking in the past—those of the relative autonomy of micro-orders and their confinement to the physical setting—are theoretically no longer adequate in a world in which interaction can also be disembedded from local settings, in which space may be separated from place (Giddens 1990, p. 18) and in which situations may link participants who are physically located in different continents and time zones. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 21

Categorization

• XREF: Giddens’ space/place disembedding connects to reader’s finance material on remote screen trading — traders co-present in a situation but continents apart. Also evokes the online-community literature. — connects to: Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 260; Microsociology of everyday life must link micro events to macro power structures — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1469; Reintroducing context does not necessarily align a network with physical place. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 582 (+2 more)
• QUESTION: Wonder whether later chapters actually operationalize ‘witnessing’ in a global, disembedded setting or whether it stays a programmatic gesture.

Related

• Microsocial interactions have risen to structural equivalence with macroscopic global phenomena. (similarity 0.84)
• Reintroducing context does not necessarily align a network with physical place. (similarity 0.84)
• Global social fields can form from micro interactions without complex organization. (similarity 0.81)
• Response presence can sustain intersubjective social forms across global distances (similarity 0.81)
• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations (similarity 0.81)
• Geographically dispersed but mutually oriented actors form global microstructures that bind markets together. (similarity 0.80)
• Spatial practices cannot be read apart from social context (similarity 0.79)
• Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Reintroducing context does not necessarily align a network with physical place. #corroborates (0.90) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 582
• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations #corroborates (0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 260
• Social media constitutes a contextual monoculture that destroys meaning-bearing spatial context #exemplifies (0.85) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 548
• Microsociology of everyday life must link micro events to macro power structures #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1469
• The local and global are mutually constitutive rather than hierarchical #complicates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 865