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20 - Social Ontology between Habits and Social Interactions

from Part III - Socially Embeddded and Culturally Extended Habits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2020

By
Roberto Frega
Edited by
Fausto Caruana  and
Italo Testa
Fausto Caruana
Affiliation:
Institute of Neuroscience (Parma), Italian National Research Council
Italo Testa
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi, Parma
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Summary

This chapter develops the basic outlines of a social ontology inspired by pragmatism and social interactionism, and explores the status of habits within it. It contends that bare social interactions provide the basic building blocks of such an ontology, and that habits, patterns of interaction, and institutional form provide the basic infrastructure through which bare social interactions obtain the stability required by social life.

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habitssocial interactionsJohn Deweypragmatisminteractionism
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Habits
Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory
 , pp. 417 - 437
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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