Imbrications or Constitutive Entanglements – A Matter of Ontologies

Abstract

<p> <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"><i>Scholars interested in theorizing sociomateriality debate whether social and material are discreet </i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"><i>entities that interlock or constitutive entanglements. Prior theorizing suggests two philosophical</i> <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"><i>world views underpin the debate: critical realism and agential realism. However, prior theorizing</i> <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"><i>has not clearly articulated the philosophical assumptions and their relation to the debate or their </i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"><i>influence on the used conceptions. In this research, I will relate imbrications to critical realism and</i> <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"><i>constitutive entanglements to agential realism, and through juxtaposing the two expose some of the</i> <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"><i>roots of the debate. The research suggests the debate can be largely explained in terms of</i> <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"><i>ontological differences of each world view leading to misunderstandings and misappreciation of </i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"><i>others&#39; ideas. The research contributes to the debate on theorizing sociomateriality and to scholars</i> <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"><i>interested in applying the world views to empirical research. This is a research in progress.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>