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The perception of social interaction should be treated as legitimately as the sensate experience of social interaction. If we accept the premise that mental images are legitimate components in social interaction, then we acknowledge the impact of human/nonhuman exchanges on the physical, mental, and emotional health of human actors. (Cerulo 2009) Animals have traditionally been excluded as participants in social interaction. Language has been a longstanding requirement in Symbolic InteractionisRead More...
Scope
- There is a combination of actors and actants.
- Animals are the actants.
- Entities that reside in the mind of one actor as real are accepted as legitimate entities to other actors.
Terms
- urgency (noun) - negative stress associated with the need to quickly procure a solution
- goal achievement (noun) - successfully solving a problem
- actor-network (noun) - the combination of actors and actants in a systematic and meaningful way
- actant (noun) - a non-human character in a social scenario
- non-substantive words (noun) -
- form (noun) -
- direction (noun) -
- emotional health (noun) -
- mental health (noun) -
- physical health (noun) -
- cultural norm (noun) -
- social norm (noun) -
- participant (noun) -
- implication (noun) -
- occured (verb) -
- action (noun) -
- associations (noun) -
- built (verb) -
- vital (adjective) -
- solution (noun) -
- identify (verb) -
- legitimate (adjective) -
- accepted (adjective) -
- real (adjective) -
- human mind (noun) -
- entities (noun) -
- problem (noun) -
- solve (verb) -
- process (noun) -
- scenario (noun) -
- actor (noun) -
- relationship (noun) - interaction which has implications on the social and cultural norms and a human actor’s physical, mental, and emotional health in any number of directions and forms
- translation (noun) - the process of an actor’s perception of a non-human as an actant. • Non-human defines a problem • Non-human identifies a solution to which they are a vital component • Associations are created which are built upon this solution • A consensus is formed between actors which results in action
- interaction (noun) -
- threatened (verb) -
- ability (noun) -
- individual (adjective) -
- independent (adjective) -
- consensus (noun) -
- component (noun) -
- reside (verb) -
- success (noun) -
- systematic (adjective) -
- meaningful (adjective) -
- combination (noun) -
- character (noun) -
- human (noun) -
Propositions
- If a process of translation occurs [A], the animal becomes an actant [B].
- If B occurs, then an actor-network exists [C].
- If C is created, then human actors will feel threatened because actants will appear capable of independent and individual action [D].
- If D, then human actor will become less confident in his/her ability for goal achievement [E].
- If E, then human actors feel a sense of urgency, making interaction with animals necessary to goal achievement [F].
- If F, then these interactions form relationships [G].
- If G, then animal actants will be accepted as legitimate participants in social interaction [H].
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Our discipline would be better served—and would better serve other disciplines—if our theories were formulated in ways that make their structures more transparent, and with an eye toward facilitating integrations both among our theories and with theories in other fields. Sociological theories presently address an array of abstract and pragmatic issues, but for the most part operate as autonomous entities. I will make the case that building theories in a modular way will make the construction prRead More...