Durkheim and Weber on the social implications of new information and communication technologies
Durkheim and Weber on the social implications of new information and communication technologies
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涂尔干和韦伯论新信息和通信技术的社会影响
作者：
Ralph Schroeder;Rich Ling
马克斯·韦伯和埃米尔·涂尔干为我们理解新信息和通信技术 (ICT) 做出了重要贡献。虽然他们在工作中没有讨论信息通信技术，但他们提供了宏观、中观和微观社会层面的概念工具，帮助我们了解信息通信技术的使用。我们研究了韦伯的铁笼和涂尔干的机械团结和仪式如何对信息通信技术如何维持凝聚力并使我们陷入复杂社会中的中介互动进行了连贯的描述。因此，它们直接解决了日益中介的关系的影响问题，而这一问题被只关注个人与技术之间关系的理论所忽视。与其他关注社会层面的理论家不同，韦伯和涂尔干更关心他们的日常工作，为信息通信技术和社会变革提供更扎实、更日常、更现实的理解。
Max Weber and Emile Durkheim made an important contribution to our understanding of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). While they did not discuss ICTs in their work, they provided conceptual tools at the macro-, meso- and micro-social levels that help us understand the use of ICTs. We examine how Weber’s iron cage and Durkheim’s mechanical solidarity and ritual present a coherent account of how ICTs sustain cohesion and also enmesh us in mediated interactions in complex societies. Thus, they directly address the question of the implications of increasingly mediated relationships, which is overlooked by theories that focus only on the relation between individuals and technology. Unlike other theorists who do focus on the societal level, Weber and Durkheim are more concerned with their routine workings, providing a more grounded, everyday, and in this sense realistic understanding of ICTs and social change.