What is it about?
Here we assess what a monist or ‘flat’ ontology means for sociological understanding of key concepts such as structures and systems, power and resistance. Power is a flux of forces or ‘affects’ fully immanent within events, while resistance is similarly an affective flow in events producing micropolitical effects contrary to power or control.
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Why is it important?
Supplies a key component for the establishment of a new materialist sociology.
Perspectives
Pleased to have been able to fully develop a new materialist perspective on power and resistance. New materialism has sometimes been criticised for not engaging with issues of power and control.
Professor Nick J Fox
University of Huddersfield
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This page is a summary of: Social structures, power and resistance in monist sociology: (New) materialist insights, Journal of Sociology, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1440783317730615.
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