Abstract
Manners shape interpersonal interactions, support, opposition, confusion, and coexistence in all of their facets—at work and at home as well as in communicative spheres and the spaces of interaction in public and personal life. Behavioral habits are used to discipline, distinguish, and civilize interpersonal interactions. Like conventions, manners can vary subculturally and interculturally. Digitization, the article argues, transforms behavioral habits globally. But like globalization as such, digitization will not create (more) equality or make good on its initial promises of egalitarianism and democracy. Rather, it will create a digital divide, in other words inequality, in interpersonal relations. Human beings’ dependency on one another will be at least partially replaced by human beings’ dependency on machines and media. The effect of the global turn on manners remains a matter of continuous observation and sociological study.
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Lucke, D.M. (2019). Manners. In: Kühnhardt, L., Mayer, T. (eds) The Bonn Handbook of Globality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90377-4_36
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