The future as a social fact. The analysis of perceptions of the future in sociology

Beckert, Jens; Suckert, Lisa

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101499

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“…Literature on imagined futures argues that entrepreneurs, managers and workers aim to construct credible images to shape the future through them (Beckert & Bronk, 2018; Beckert & Suckert, 2021). Imagined futures thus become performative in the present (Oomen et al, 2021) by structuring decision-making, relationships and expectations within and between organizations (Beckert, 2016; Komporozos-Athanasiou, 2020).…”

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Imagining Futures: Theorizing the Practical Knowledge of Future-making

Thompson

Byrne

2021

Organization Studies

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The study of future-making – how practitioners make and enact imagined futures – has become a cornerstone for understanding the temporal dynamics of organisation, strategy and entrepreneurship. This article investigates the texture of practical knowledge that enables entrepreneuring practitioners to jointly address the challenges inherent to future-making. We conduct a video ethnography of a business modelling programme producing 79 hours of audio-visual recordings. Using multimodal conversation analysis, we unpack different forms of practical knowledge that simultaneously binds practitioners in a web of mutual expectations and establishes modes of thinking and acting for the creation of imagined futures. This contributes to existing studies by demonstrating that the discursive, embodied and material dimensions of future-making are fundamentally entangled within textures of practical knowledge. Consequently, we shift the mode of theorizing towards non-representationalism, which opens up new frontiers for future research to observe, participate and reflect with practitioners on the textures of practical knowledge constitutive of future-making in different circumstances and contexts.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Imagining Futures: Theorizing the Practical Knowledge of Future-making

Thompson

Byrne

2021

Organization Studies

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“…5. For an overview of how sociology has approached the future as social fact over the last decades see also Beckert and Suckert (2021). 6.…”

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The coronavirus and the temporal order of capitalism: Sociological observations and the wisdom of a children’s book

Suckert

2021

The Sociological Review

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The coronavirus is not only a medical threat but also collides with the temporal logic inherent to capitalism. While capitalism demands constant growth, acceleration and efficiency, the outbreak urges societies to reduce, slow down and be patient. This article provides a sociological comment on the pandemic that focuses on the role of time and temporality. It explores the multiple ways in which the required responses to Covid-19 are at odds with the temporal order of capitalism. In the midst of crisis, the specific features, contradictions and weaknesses of the time regime governing modern societies become even more apparent – and make sociological scrutiny more necessary than ever. While this comment relates to the insights provided by the sociology of time, it uses a children’s book to illustrate its argument. Drawing on Michael Ende’s story of the orphan girl Momo and the grey gentlemen who steal people’s time, I recapture the main features of capitalism as a time regime: measurement and commodification of time, temporal expansion, acceleration, appropriation of the future, and unequal temporal autonomy. The current pandemic challenges both individual and collective temporalities that are governed by these temporal imperatives of capitalism. I conclude with reflections on the feasibility of a more sustainable temporal order that Michael Ende’s novel hints at and suggest how sociological research could support such an endeavour in the current crisis.

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“…Sociology is used as a theory to reveal political problems in the novel. 13 explained that sociology, anthropology, and political science explain previous events, leading causally to what is explained in the present as an outcome. 13 Demonstrated that culture is one of the essential things in the social world.…”

Section: Open Access Indonesia Journal Of Social Sciencesmentioning

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“…13 explained that sociology, anthropology, and political science explain previous events, leading causally to what is explained in the present as an outcome. 13 Demonstrated that culture is one of the essential things in the social world. 14 The researcher traces the conspiracy narrative that was raised by the author of literature, both manifestly and latently.…”

Section: Open Access Indonesia Journal Of Social Sciencesmentioning

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Studies of Sociology Conspiracy in Indonesian Politics Novel

Andharu¹,

Supratno²,

Darni³

2022

oaijss

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This study aims to find a conspiracy in Indonesian politics novels. This study uses a sociology conspiracy study to reveal the concepts of conspiracy in the novel. The research approach used is qualitative. Data collection techniques using library techniques. The data analysis technique used hermeneutic and heuristic methods. And the data validity technique uses time triangulation. The results show that conspiracy in Indonesian politics novels is related to conflicts creation, scenarios-paranoid creation, and the manipulation of events.

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The future as a social fact. The analysis of perceptions of the future in sociology

Cited by 50 publications

References 88 publications

Imagining Futures: Theorizing the Practical Knowledge of Future-making

Imagining Futures: Theorizing the Practical Knowledge of Future-making

The coronavirus and the temporal order of capitalism: Sociological observations and the wisdom of a children’s book

Studies of Sociology Conspiracy in Indonesian Politics Novel

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