2023/11/01 by Rasmus Birk, Nick Manning · 1 voice
Health Professions · Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Community Health and Development #Embodied and Extended Cognition #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
paper · doi:10.1080/09515089.2023.2277346
openalex publication_date 2023/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This paper discusses the concept of social affordances in relation to social theory. Our point of departure is the growing literature which posits, in one way or another, that affordances may be seen as social, or cultural or similar. Across the literature on social affordances, it is thus emphasized how perception is shaped within human econiches, how it is fundamentally social, historical, and cultural, but limited direct engagement with decades of scholarship within the social sciences on many of these same topics. This paper thus discusses three key themes for theories of social affordances, exploring sociological perspectives on meaning, place and power, arguing that there may be a difficult, yet fruitful, potential for not just an ecological psychology, but an ecological social science.